When you're dead, you don't breathe, you don't see, you don't feel, you don't love.

People don't understand that you can actually lose your life going to jail. There's more violence in the jail-house than there is on the streets.

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.

I'm a family man. I always depend on my family when I am in dire need.

Barack Obama makes me feel good to be a black man.

I am a sore loser. I've always been like that ever s'nce I started playin' sports and just life in general. I hate to lose and I play to win.

Now people think it's cool to have a baby, but it ain't cool to take care of it. We have to change that. You make your life for that baby. That's the future.