Twerking has to end. Not for the ones that look good doing it, but for all the ones that you feel, 'You don't have enough to twerk back there. Your twerkin' look like jerkin.'

The movie industry is one big collaboration. Music gives me that freedom to create things straight from my heart and my mind.

My thing is: stay creative. And just because somebody starts to pay you, that don't mean all your creativity goes to that, and you don't save none for yourself to be able to do other, bigger and better things and still follow your dreams even if you start off inside of a box.

Do I gotta go sell me a whole lotta crack for decent shelter and clothes on my back?

I'm not actually from Compton - I'm from South Central Los Angeles, and my father still lives in the same house I grew up in, so I'm there all the time.

Truth is the ultimate power. When the truth comes around, all the lies have to run and hide.

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