We all get distracted, the question is, would you bounce back or bounce backwards?

I always felt like there was a certain standard of music that I had to do from the beginning, even when I didn't have the recognition that I have now.

My folks ain't graduated from high school or nothing like that, so we always had to struggle in the family - and I come from a big family.

My mom's one of 13 siblings, and they all got six kids, and till I was 13 everybody was in Compton.

People gonna be they own individuals and have they own worlds and I can't knock it.

Poetic justice, poetic justice.. if I told you that a flower bloom in a dark room would you trust it. I mean I write poems in these songs.

Kids don't see hate in their eyes. They see the world, and living in it to the best of their abilities. And that's where love comes from for me.