There's a lot of potential that goes unused in places like South Central L.A., a lot of brilliant, smart people who just don't have that chance to show it.

I’m a B-boy at heart. I still like rhyming. It’s just the radio game is like Chinese arithmetic. It’s hard to know what nuts to crack. But I still love music, been dropping music. Never stopped really.

Ice Cube is the piece of me that I give away to the public.

I feel like I got a whole lot of living to do before I think about summing it up in a book.

It's always been jewelry, clothes, appearance. Those are things that compete with the car. But the car is the ultimate. Get that car right and it doesn't matter what you got on or what you wear once you step out of that car.

I've been around a lot longer than most rappers stay around. So I don't feel like, I haven't made too many career mistakes.

I would love to meet Bob Marley. I mean, he's passed, but that's somebody that I would've loved to meet.