I don't harp on what I could change about the past, because I can't go back and change it. But definitely a lot of things I would change.

I own a mortgage company and a real estate company funded by the music. Florida is a kinda gold mine.

To the extreme I rock a mike like a vandal.

As for music and my place in it, maybe things are changing a little bit. I know this: a good song is deeper than a tattoo. It'll remind you of the car you're driving and the girl you're going around with and the streets you're cruising. It's better than a photo album. A song is a tattoo that you never lose. 'Ice, Ice Baby,' man, you'll remember that when you're 90.

My breakdancing crew used to go to the mall and squat a piece of cardboard there; we had our jam box, and I'd spin on my head and make about forty bucks a day, which was pretty good back then. I was only 14 years old, so I would chase the girls around the mall and eat some pizza and have some change left over.

I turned a lot of people in white America - and not just white America, but middle-class America - into hip-hoppers, you know?

I've never left music behind, but I've had success in television.