So many affluent men are faced with finding love problems. I'm sure beautiful, affluent women are faced with the same things sometimes.

I know i can, be what i wanna be, if i work hard at it, I'll be where i wanna be

Just do as much as you can.

I want you to know who I am: what the streets taste like, feel like, smell like. What the cops talk like, walk like, think like. What crackheads do - I wanted you to smell it, feel it. It was important to me that I told the story that way because I thought that it wouldn't be told if I didn't tell it.

For my hustlers, here's some motivation: He who has begun is half done.

So many affluent men are faced with finding love problems. I'm sure beautiful, affluent women are faced with the same things sometimes.

Mostly every form of American music is dead. It's been dead. R&B isn't really good. You got a handful of great guys - Ne-Yo, R. Kelly, Usher. You have a handful of great female artists. But for the most part the music world's changing and change is good. You have to make adjustments if you want to survive in that world. You start to thinking about creative moments - bliss. When everything was all good. You realize that in comparison to the way hip-hop started off, where we should be at right now is not there.