But with rap music - not just N.W.A. - but rap music in general, seeing these artists wearing these team logos all the time started bringing a synergy and energy about having to rep your city, your team, everywhere and all the time.

I'm not trying to turn into Eddie Murphy, and just do kids movies the rest of my career. I'm going to still do a wide variety of movies, as well as do hardcore rap.

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

Go down to the corner store and beat the Jap up, clean all the crap up.

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

You have to be able to give the people what you want in your way. And that's how you, to me, become a person that they love and not just a fly-by night actor.

You always want your kids to step up at the moment of truth.