Sometimes, if you're lucky, someone comes into your life who'll take up a place in your heart that no one else can fill, someone who's tighter than a twin, more with you than your own shadow, who gets deeper under your skin than your own blood and bones.

Well, hip-hop is what makes the world go around.

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.

I'm just doing what I do best and that's what makes good music, and that's how you can relate to people.

Black folks don't have a chance, so they are in the hood, dealing drugs, in a shoot-out. They do it again and one more time they are out.

There's so much that I want to do. I feel like I'm the Magic Johnson of rap. You know, Magic was great on the basketball court, but he's bigger as a businessman.

See, I don't want brothers shooting. I want them talking.