If you get into crime you gotta know that everybody's a criminal and everybody's a liar, and everybody has the potential to backstab you, because it's not an honest profession. So don't go into crime and look for honesty.

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

If you believe that I'm a cop killer, you believe David Bowie is an astronaut.

I've always been a person that, if I'm with a woman, she's in the picture. Even my son's mom, she was on my early (album) covers.

If you really listen to my music my music is more like stories than party records. I never made party records.

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.

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