I've never read for a movie, I've always been given them.

You have to come in on a professional level to make it, otherwise you just can't get into rap.

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.

Being cool is when you win, you don't get too happy; and when you lose, you don't get too mad.

Anybody who has anybody in the armed forces, I don't care how well-trained they are, there's nothing safe about it.

You've got the Wall Street situation, the sub-prime situation. You've got a black president. We've got wars. We've got unemployment. But the music doesn't reflect that. And I challenge anybody to show me a music that's on the radio that reflects that.

If you get into crime you gotta know that everybody's a criminal and everybody's a liar, and everybody has the potential to backstab you, because it's not an honest profession. So don't go into crime and look for honesty.