I think everybody likes a person that stands up for themselves. Nobody likes a punk or a coward.

Sometimes when you're relegated to your neighborhood, you forget that there's more important things than your neighborhood going on out in the world. And that just gave me a chance to see how life could be. And it gave me a chance to interact with everybody, not just black people or Mexicans. It made me just a little more worldly.

The best thing I've done with my money is buy a house for my family. You wake up to a house you love and you feel like somebody.

I think when hip hop first started, people were open to it, and groups like Public Enemy and there was groups like Poor Righteous Teachers and all these people who were spitting a lot of knowledge, a lot of history, questioning a lot of societal barriers was starting to be super popular.

I'm interested in how things are put together, and that's more interesting to me than just regular shows, even though I like The Walking Dead.

There's a lot of talent in South Central L.A., in Compton and Long Beach and Watts, and the city north of Pico pretty much sits back and waits for that talent to emerge and then steps in.

Sports without music is just a game. Music makes it entertaining.