There's a lot of films I've done I don't ever wanna see again.

If you're really a rapper, you can't stop rapping.

I've been in crime for a long time and I know that the actual move isn't the actual crime: the crime continues [afterwards].

A lot of people play single to work some angle. I'm always about keeping it real. If that's how I'm living, that's how I'm living.

I'm just disillusioned with the hip-hop sound right now. It's too materialistic. You know, I'm the kind of guy ... I can't do that. If you track my movement, you'll never see a picture of me with any girl that wasn't mine, or my own car. My jewelry, my clothes. What kind of gangsta rapper has a stylist? A stylist?!

You could be a Green Beret and a kid could jump out from behind a building and hit you with a rock. No matter how tough you become in the military, there's a way to die: there's nothing safe about it.

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