With film, I have to be a team player; it's a whole different thing. I can't just be a one-man show. I have to learn how to use people to the best of their ability and motivate them to be as passionate about the project as I am.

I was trying to be the best rapper in the world. I wasn't thinking about acting.

I've always gotten good grades, you know, with my teachers and my English teachers, 'cause I was able to - they'd say, "What did you do for the summer?" I'm able to explain it to them in a written form. And my teachers always patted me on the back for that, being able to take what's in my mind and put it on paper.

I wish the world would become what God wanted it to be in the first place, before we tampered with it.

You wanna be remembered for making an impact and changing things. I guess for the good or for the bad, it don't matter. But I guess you just wanna be remembered when it's all said and done.

There's never really been a real hood Christmas movie.

You really have to challenge yourself to come out of those parameters that they put you in, even if that's your job.