It's always been jewelry, clothes, appearance. Those are things that compete with the car. But the car is the ultimate. Get that car right and it doesn't matter what you got on or what you wear once you step out of that car.

We don't do movies for the industry. We do movies for the fans, for the people. If the industry give you a trophy or not, or pat you on the back or not, it's nice, but it's not something you should dwell on.

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

Even though I have a nice house, nice family, the rest of my generation is still in South Central L.A. My cousins, my brothers, my sisters, they don't wanna move out. They don't want to and they don't have the means to sustain it. That's where my heart is and that's what I think about all the time.

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

I know I ain't too old. I always think of my fans about 10 years older and 10 years younger than me.

When people see the Cubevision logo, they should know it's something good, something worth checking out.