I think rap music is the sole reason for a lot of black acceptance in pop culture; because the music is very popular, it gets our image out in other ways than in movies.

I always was like, "Yo, I'm here, I might as well get what I could take."

When I was in N.W.A. and didn't get paid all the money I was owed, that's when the business side of showbiz hit me.

The '80s was wild compared to my real small childhood, which was late '70s.

Everybody in the world has to compromise. I don't know one person that gets everything they want, so the politicians are going to have to figure that out and stop pointing out, "He shook hands with a Democrat in 1989. He ate with a Republican last week." It's petty high school, even junior high stuff going on. It's junior high politics going on, so it's a shame.

Obama reminds me of the black kid at a white school that don't nobody want to play with.

Cool people still have a hard time showing what they got in Hollywood.