The best thing I've done with my money is buy a house for my family. You wake up to a house you love and you feel like somebody.

I think hip-hop has changed. When I first came out, hip-hop was more of a kind of way to learn about new places, new things. What are kids doing on the East coast, what are kids doing here. Then it left that and is like a party mode. I think it's going back to people wanting to get messages and wanting to learn things from the music.

Everybody thinks the grass is greener on the other side. If you talk to most artists, they think they can play something, you know, "If I had stayed playing football in high school, if I had been doing basketball..." Everybody's got their fantasies and thinks the grass is greener. It's not. It's not.

Rapping is talking and communicating, and that's always good.

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.

Anybody that really knew Tupac will tell you the same thing. That he was just a dude that was full of life, full of energy.

[Boycott Oscar] is like crying about not having enough icing on your cake. It's just ridiculous.