Most actors have to sit by the phone and wait for somebody to call them up to audition and stuff. I don't think I can exist in Hollywood just on that. I think I need to be proactive and making sure that things I really want to do are being developed to the point where somebody wants to make them?

I think [director] Malcolm Lee is a real master at being able to make you laugh while bringing serious subject-matter, so the movie doesn't hinge on silliness, but on real life.

I been all around the world and I haven't found a city that I'd rather be from or rather come back to than Los Angeles.

People wanted to have fun more than they wanted to learn from their music, and that's where the shift started to happen.

Early in my career, people wanted to hear music about protest, about trying to change things.

We'll burn your store right down to a crisp.

Whatever happened in the neighborhood. That's what I was rapping about. And that sparked people's interest. And that's what kind of put me on that path.