There's never really been a real hood Christmas movie.

There's never really been a real hood Christmas movie.

Anybody that really knew Tupac will tell you the same thing. That he was just a dude that was full of life, full of energy.

The hardest period for a writer is the period in-between writing. That's when you can go crazy if you don't allow the creative juices to flow.

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.

You don't have to be super clean to be a super star

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.