When I make records I have full control of everything and I know how it sounds before it comes out, with films it's outta my hands.

I'm just disillusioned with the hip-hop sound right now. It's too materialistic. You know, I'm the kind of guy ... I can't do that. If you track my movement, you'll never see a picture of me with any girl that wasn't mine, or my own car. My jewelry, my clothes. What kind of gangsta rapper has a stylist? A stylist?!

Everybody is doing you a favor when you're doing a documentary. You can't pressure them into it.

I never know if the person I'm shaking hands with is coming to kill me. That's something you have to live with when you cross the lines.

You have the core hip-hop, which would just be beats and breaks, more something like what you hear with DJ Premier. Then you get into the more highly produced hip-hop, which is something like what DJ Khaled does. But at some point, it starts to get kind of pop.

You can't just sing the song and live another life, you know. It's really difficult now because that's not what it's about. It's pop and pop just says that we could be actors. We could sing about stuff and not believe in it. It could be absolutely fraudulent and it doesn't really matter.

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