I've always been a person that, if I'm with a woman, she's in the picture.

With the invention of the blog and all this Internet stuff, everybody has an opinion; everybody has a voice. In fact, there was a time when the average person didn't have a voice so you had to pick an artist to speak for you.

If you're really a rapper, you can't stop rapping.

Before rap came along, I was, actually, actively in the streets; getting in trouble, doing the wrong thing.

I'm not going to allow anybody to hold a badge up over me or a cross or any other power symbol and say I'm going to kill you and you're just going to kneel down to me because I'm the law.

That's basically the gangster code. Just be yourself. Just be you, dog. The easiest way to get your card plucked around a gangster is to be a fake. If we feel like you're trying too hard, if you're trying to act like you're from the street, you're in trouble.

If you believe that I'm a cop killer, you believe David Bowie is an astronaut.