When my nine goes buck, it will bust your head like a watermelon dropping 12 stories up.

Young people are dying for no reason all over the world that don't know why. It's ugly, everywhere.

I grew up in the seventies and disco was big. That influenced me the most.

Our household is built on love and respect. And we don't really let negative vibes stay too long. It's worked out. I got a great family, great kids.

The hardest period for a writer is the period in-between writing. That's when you can go crazy if you don't allow the creative juices to flow.

There's a lot of potential that goes unused in places like South Central L.A., a lot of brilliant, smart people who just don't have that chance to show it.

Rap is always evolving. It's easy for the old school to hate the new school, but it's a music that got a little stifled I think, by the Internet a little bit.