I'm at a point where I don't have to wait for the income from the record to survive, so I'm in a comfortable zone, but I'll make rap records as long as I feel I have something to rap about.

You can't do an impersonation of somebody nobody knows.

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 was a full-blown street cat. I was trying to hustle my way. I thought I was going to hustle my way to a mansion or something. I was doing pretty good, but I didn't realize that there was no way to win that game.

The right to bear arms is because it's the last form of defense against tyranny.

Hollywood has its own way of telling stories. I was just telling stories that I was familiar with. And it's what I want to do in the future: I want to take my audio cinema and put it on the screen.

Hip-hop is a competition culture. It's based around, "My DJ is better than you. My graffiti artist is better than you."