I hate to get on the racial thing because that's something I've always been totally against. But the problem with the media is that they think that the word rock means white and the word rap means black.

When I was younger I never drank. I never drank, I never did any weed or drugs or anything because I felt it would compromise my position. I was an orphan, and I had a feeling like if I ever hit the ground I may never get back up.

If somebody wants to kill people, they don't need a gun to do it.

Jay-Z is like a rap-savant, he doesn't have to write the rhymes down, he can create complex raps in his head. I mean he does memorize it, he just doesn't write it down on paper. He doesn't freestyle onto the track, it's all thought out.

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

Rap music came along and saved my life. I started to tell the stories of the streets and that was my way out.

Passion makes the world go round. Love just makes it a safer place.