I'm on the front line and I am a rapper.

I'm afraid because some police are way out of control. My true feeling with police is this: If they do their job, there's no problem.

You can't come out on a record dissing the system and be on a label that's connected to the system.

If I'm going to be a jazz player, I need to understand Miles Davis.

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 just don't believe that there's any way that you're ever gonna get one peace, because everybody has different ways of seeing life.

The music led to the acting. But movies aren't something you can just will yourself into. Someone has to choose you, and you have to be quite fortunate to be chosen.