I'm pretty open book, I'm also the kind of person that will say, 'That's none of your business,' too.

It's like they want to shut rappers down. They want to silence us. The Supreme Court says it's OK for a white man to burn a cross in public. But nobody wants a black man to write a record about a cop killer.

I think everybody wants to redeem themselves after they've done something that might be considered negative. I don't think anyone wants to go to the grave negative.

Redemption just means you just make a change in your life and you try to do right, versus what you were doing, which was wrong.

I was a full-blown street cat. I was trying to hustle my way. I thought I was going to hustle my way to a mansion or something. I was doing pretty good, but I didn't realize that there was no way to win that game.

So from an actor's perspective, you really have no idea how you're acting.

One of the things about powerful people is they have the ability to make it look easy.