Once you figure out what your own thing is it's all about trying to develop shows, programs that can, I guess, enhance what you already have and what you can add to Hollywood.

The thing is with hip-hop, it has its waves and the waves crash against the beach and the new waves come in. So to stay relevant you have to roll with that.

You don't have to spend $200 million or $100 million to make a great movie.

I'm not sure if music got a future. We have all these electronic ways to download and steal music and get music, but there's no money in makin' music.

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

My thing is, I know kids cuss, they do their thing, but I tell my kids, 'Don't do it in earshot of any adults, or you're in trouble.'

If you really think back to the culture or just black America before rap music took off, New York could have been Paris.