For me rappers and dancers are poets and artists and often times the most interesting performances are given by them.

The moral is that a career can be gone in an instant. And all you have in this world are the people you love.

You can go raise the money outside of the industry, and then what you're doing is fighting with your money to get back into the industry, or for them to use your money instead of their own. So, you got to figure out how to do it within the flow of the industry.

"Are We There Yet?" was the perfect title, because it's such a common saying. And having made the movie with the same name kinda locks it all in.

I believe every pencil has to be sharpened every now and then to stay sharp, or you dull out. So my records, I chose to speak on what black people do, what white people do, what women do, what men do.

Some people have a taboo about doing advertising in the States. You know, where they kind of make their bread and butter. But to me, that's crazy.

Any time there's racism somewhere in sports, we should get it out of there because sports is a place where everything's supposed to be fair.