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

If you really listen to my music my music is more like stories than party records. I never made party records.

The more you try to suppress us, the larger we get.

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

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.

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.

You can't come out on a record dissing the system and be on a label that's connected to the system.