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

That's one of the first things that comes out of young people's mouths when they're in love. FOREVER. And that's cool, it's all good-until you get old enough to realize what forever is.

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

It's like they want to shut rappers down. They want to silence us. The Supreme Court says it's OK for a white man to burn a cross in public. But nobody wants a black man to write a record about a cop killer.

The truth is, everybody I've ever met who's successful is a workaholic.

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

I was a pretty bad person early in my life.