When I say I loved it, I don't mean I loved being hit. I just mean...there was some good in there, too. I am not going to call it all bad.

When my mother and my grandmother died three months apart, I knew my world was over.

I can't think of any time we had a discussion [with Dre] about the aftermath of what happened the night before. We just had too much going on.

Do you see how Jerry Heller made it work? That is how he combined what we did to make the rap music into mass music. That's exactly how it happened.

It felt like love to me. It embraced me. I accepted it and thought, "Well, this is how [Dre] loves." I got that from my mother and from my grandmother, who were abused.

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

The beatings, the beatings were so normal to me. The abuse was just routine. I didn't wake up the next day and say, 'Dre, why did you hit me?' We never talked about it the next day. Never.