Nobody likes to fail. I want to succeed in everything I do, which isn't much. But the things that I'm really passionate about, if I fail at those, if I'm not successful, what do I have?

Told me my tape taught them to swear. What about the make-up you allow your 12 year old daughter to wear?

Though I'm not the first king of controversy, I am the worst thing since Elvis Presley. To do black music so selfishly, and use it to get myself wealthy.

I can't tell you what it really is, I can only tell you what it feels like.

Never was a gangsta, till I graduated to one.

Coming up as an MC, I took the frustrations of the underground and brought it with me into the mainstream. I know there was a certain complex I had in the beginning that was just a little paranoid or a little...sensitive.

The emotions in a song - the anger, aggression - have got to be legitimate.