I won't do anything for money. I won't compromise my manhood.

Seeing my son getting roughed up by the police is not fun. It brings back memories of when I got roughed up by them. He grew up totally different than how I grew up, and to me, he shouldn't have to go through that.

When I did 'Boyz N The Hood', I never thought how we grew up in South Central was interesting enough for a movie.

I think rap music is brought up, gangster rap in particular, as well as video games, every other thing they try to hang the ills of society on as a scapegoat.

I was trying to be the best rapper in the world. I wasn't thinking about acting.

I think hip-hop has changed. When I first came out, hip-hop was more of a kind of way to learn about new places, new things. What are kids doing on the East coast, what are kids doing here. Then it left that and is like a party mode. I think it's going back to people wanting to get messages and wanting to learn things from the music.

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