You won't hear any more alcohol songs from Snoop Dogg - unless I stumble upon some Hennessy.

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.

Why do people carry guns? Protection, right? To protect me and myself. Whether it's home protection or street protection.

I'm destined to live and say things.

This is for my G's, this is for my Hustlas.

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.

That's how we do it in the black community; we give back to the people who made us who we are. We never forget that.