There's not enough Ice Cubes out there. There's not enough Ice Cubes getting a chance to do their thing.

My problem is that I never get through the whole book. I skim through this one, that one, and then the other one.

Rap is just somebody getting something off his chest. That's all it is.

If you really look at my lyrics, nobody's exempt. Nobody's exempt from observation, criticism or what I think is correction.

You become a writer on a television show, and you see yourself doing bigger and better things, you don't wait till they tell you, "Here's the way to do bigger and better things," you start writing. You start writing that material that you might be doing off to the side. Nobody's going to be paying you for that, but it could turn into something big.

Our records, if you have a dark sense of humor, were funny, but our records weren't about comedy. They were about protests, fantasy, confrontation and all that.

You don't have to be super clean to be a super star