I'm competitive in that I would like to outsell my last record.

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

I've never read for a movie, I've always been given them.

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

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.

When you start to really travel and you get to these abstract like places in the world, you would see certain people's names. It seemed like we could go anywhere. Like when we went to Afghanistan, you'd see in the dressing room Run DMC's name. Certain rappers are like journey men.

You have to come in on a professional level to make it, otherwise you just can't get into rap.