The '80s was brand new. It was AIDS. It was gangbanging. It was starting to become big dope-dealing, and crack was starting to flood the neighborhoods. And then you had hip hop, which was something new, other than what we were doing, which was sports, playing football, basketball, baseball. And I was excited.

Rap is just somebody getting something off his chest. That's all it is.

I hear about people getting shot all the time. But most of the guys you hear about getting shot pulled through.

Don't worry about being a star, worry about doing good work, and all that will come to you.

Everybody who comes from the gangster life - they want what that man in the suburbs wants. Nice family. Nice house. Nice cars. Bills paid. Kids in school. Food on the table. Nothing more.

I still enjoy doing music. I'm not going to stop doing it, and doing it the way that I feel it should be done.

I think, to me, reality is better than being fake.