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

What I'm trying to tell people is that police brutality in the 'hood is nothing new. And the thing is that whether this guy, the cop killer in my song, is real or not, believe it, there are people at that point.

I don't rhyme for the sake of riddlin'. If I say it, I gotta be able to back it up.

So from an actor's perspective, you really have no idea how you're acting.

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.

Jay-Z is like a rap-savant, he doesn't have to write the rhymes down, he can create complex raps in his head. I mean he does memorize it, he just doesn't write it down on paper. He doesn't freestyle onto the track, it's all thought out.

If one person comes in and says, this is the way life should be, I think you're asking for chaos. I think you gotta let different people live different ways. It's a big world.