Gangsta Rap is dead. I've moved on. And the raps that I'm rappin to my community shouldn't be filled with rage? They shouldn't be filled with same attrocities that they gave me? The media they don't talk about it, so in my raps I have to talk about it, and it seems foreign because there's no one else talking about it.

To me, a perfect album talks about the hard stuff and the fun and caring stuff.

Never surrender, it's all about the faith that you got.

I'd be in my hotel room, smoking too much, drinking, going to clubs, just being numb. That was being in jail to me. I wasn't happy at all on the streets. That was the addict speaking.

It makes me unhappy when brothers make babies and leave a young mother to be a pappy.

My mother taught me three things: respect, knowledge, search for knowledge. It's an eternal journey.

And everyday I read the paper, there's another lie. They show my picture for the crimes of another guy.