I like to deal with things I heard about, ... People are always getting their house broken into around the holidays. That's when the crime rate goes up.

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

I don't think people should try to force their will on their family.

There's things people say in the barbershop they won't even say in their own living room, because it's just one of those zones where nobody's going to judge you too much about your dumb opinion.

I get freedom out of hip-hop. I get to be a true artist without any shackles or harnesses.

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

[Make a sitcom] was really the idea of Executive Producer Joe Roth who owned the property over at Revolution Studios and said he was thinking about taking it to TV. And after he said that he already had [writer/director] Ali Leroi on board, and that he was going after Terry Crews, to me it was a no-brainer. I said, "Let's put this together!"