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.

With acting, you have to take it seriously because the other actors are putting in a lot of effort - and if you say, 'I'm just bullshitting here', it's like dissing 'em.

Being happily married, I’m more focused on what I’m doing. Ya know, one of my quotes is ‘love isn’t looking somebody in the eyes; it’s looking out in the same direction.

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. You know, the radio never wanted you to speak about anything, so the music is kinda influenced by the hands of the radio which wants to homogenize it and dilute it and sanitize it. And for the most part, nobody's takin' the time to seek out the cats that are still tryin' to talk, so they have a difficult time being heard, like Chuck D said.

If somebody wants to kill people, they don't need a gun to do it.

Before rap came along, I was, actually, actively in the streets; getting in trouble, doing the wrong thing.

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.