I'm a spiritual man and I've always felt connected to Rastafari. I'm not a Rastafarian but I've got so much respect for the lifestyle and religion. It taught me so much and really helped me evolve into who I am today.

The 'American Idol' and 'X Factor' shows, they're great shows. But I think I need to make a show like that, directed straight to the hood, to the artists that don't get the attention, that don't have the money to make themselves representable.

There's no such thing as losing touch. You can take me out of the ghetto, but you can't take the ghetto out of me.

It's so easy for a kid to join a gang, to do drugs. We should make it that easy to be involved in football and academics.

Drugs are so easy to get in the ghetto. They might not be easy to get in nice areas like Beverly Hills, but in Long Beach and Compton and South Central they're easy to get. They don't drop those drugs off in Beverly Hills. They drop them off in the ghetto. Then they tell us it's wrong to sell them. Well, we didn't bring them here. We just sell them. I was selling, like I sold newspapers.

A song ain't why people kill cops.

you don't love me, you just love my doggystyle