Do not turn into just cookie-cutter producer, cookie-cutter this, but a producer that people say wow, when they do something it's great or just unique or whatever.

You can't pussyfoot around. When you're talking to lions, you can't meow like a pussycat.

That's always been my approach, to expose what's going on and what's not being said. I could go the selfish route, and probably make a whole lot more money, but that's not what it's about, it's about speaking for people who can't speak for themselves.

Usually people who attack the rap are people who aren't even fans.

The movie industry is one big collaboration. Music gives me that freedom to create things straight from my heart and my mind.

Twerking has to end. Not for the ones that look good doing it, but for all the ones that you feel, 'You don't have enough to twerk back there. Your twerkin' look like jerkin.'

I identify with the bottom of the pyramid, because, outside of having money, I am at the bottom of the pyramid.