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.

People wanted to have fun more than they wanted to learn from their music, and that's where the shift started to happen.

Gangsta to us didn't have anything to do with Al Capone and stuff like that. It's just about living your life the way you want to live it. And you're not going to let nothing stop you.

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.

If you really think back to the culture or just black America before rap music took off, New York could have been Paris.

You don't have to spend $200 million or $100 million to make a great movie.

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