For the first time in my adult life, I am proud of my country because it feels like hope is finally making a comeback.

Before we can work on the problems, we have to fix our souls. Our souls are broken in this nation.

I know in the movie it looks like my grandmother is condoning it, but she really wasn't. But back in those days, men beat women. She was trying to tell me something without being judgmental, trying to help me understand that's what men do.

For the first time in my adult life, I am proud of my country because it feels like hope is finally making a comeback.

We had everything. We were young kids. We were driving cars our parents couldn't afford, living in big houses. For me to sit here and say, "Oh my God, I didn't enjoy any of it" - no, I did. Of course I did.

I'm grateful. But Dre could not have done it without me. And I could not have done it without them.

I call his ['Straight Outta Compton'] story a Disneyland because it's an illusion. It is how he wanted it to be remembered, so that is how he portrayed it. And he had every right to do that. As did I.