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.

There's a point where a cop pulls you out of that car and starts abusing you or beating on you and at that moment he is no longer within the law.

Winners have to absorb losses.

I'm pretty open book, I'm also the kind of person that will say, 'That's none of your business,' too.

I think what's happenin' is that, with the overflow of music, it's been diluted. There was a time when people would go search out underground records. Now, underground means free, and people don't really care for it. So now artists tend to go more pop and look for the radio.

There is no such thing as a normal family so don't trip off it, just deal with it.

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