I think men, growing up, you have to go through some form of hardship. You've got to harden the metal.

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

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.

Arnold Schwarzenegger blew away dozens of cops as the Terminator. But I don't hear anybody complaining about that.

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 have to take what I say and make it heavy, so every single bar means something. And there's no riddles in my rhymes. Every single word means something.

I think everybody wants to redeem themselves after they've done something that might be considered negative. I don't think anyone wants to go to the grave negative.