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Ultimately I am happy that everybody is embracing hip hop and the sounds from the streets.
I'm in a very good place to make records. Needing to make money off music is very dangerous.
Being cool is when you win, you don't get too happy; and when you lose, you don't get too mad.
You have to come in on a professional level to make it, otherwise you just can't get into rap.
So you don't have to take us too seriously; I mean, we're already intimidating enough on stage.
...As an artist, you need the naysayers and the nonbelievers to add fuel to your creative fire.
I've lectured at Stanford, Princeton & Harvard to name a few... I just might be smarter than YOU
Everybody is doing you a favor when you're doing a documentary. You can't pressure them into it.
You can't come out on a record dissing the system and be on a label that's connected to the system.
Most interviewers are looking for a headline. They're not skilled. They're looking for shock value.
I'm pretty open book, I'm also the kind of person that will say, 'That's none of your business,' too.
We have groups that do that, but I can't rap with the mentality of an 18 year old when I'm in my 30's.
I think men, growing up, you have to go through some form of hardship. You've got to harden the metal.
The best way to listen to the album is to put it on, get some Moet, lay back with your boys, and kick it.
When the President (of the United States) mentions your name in anger, you know the sh*t has hit the fan!
I think that men need to have a little bit of manism. You have feminism. I don't have a problem with that.
Before rap came along, I was, actually, actively in the streets; getting in trouble, doing the wrong thing.
As long as I'm around the cats in the hip hop scene, they'll throw me a track and I'll write a rap over it.
Everyone who raps isn't hip-hop. To be hip-hop, you've got to know the culture. You got to know the history.
Rap music came along and saved my life. I started to tell the stories of the streets and that was my way out.
If you really listen to my music my music is more like stories than party records. I never made party records.
Arnold Schwarzenegger blew away dozens of cops as the Terminator. But I don't hear anybody complaining about that.
I'm very much against the anonymity of bloggers and social media. I just hate it and I think it's really cowardly.
As an actor, you can do what you want with your role. That's why they hire you; to take the role and make it real.
Rapping is a vocal delivery, so you can do it without being part of hip-hop and not knowing what hip-hop is about.
Half the rhymes you write, you're saying that you're better than the other MC. That's how we keep the craft sharp.
My name, my real name, is Tracy. I always thought I was like a boy named Sue. So I made my friends call me 'Tray.'
Anybody who has anybody in the armed forces, I don't care how well-trained they are, there's nothing safe about it.
I don't watch daytime television, I have a job, I work and, you know, I think daytime television is really for women.
Hip-hop is a competition culture. It's based around, "My DJ is better than you. My graffiti artist is better than you."
I've got a phone, answer machine, TV set, computer, hand grenade - everything you need to run a business in Los Angeles.
I've been in crime for a long time and I know that the actual move isn't the actual crime: the crime continues [afterwards].
Redemption just means you just make a change in your life and you try to do right, versus what you were doing, which was wrong.
I've always been a person that, if I'm with a woman, she's in the picture. Even my son's mom, she was on my early (album) covers.
A lot of people play single to work some angle. I'm always about keeping it real. If that's how I'm living, that's how I'm living.
Who can protect themselves from betrayal? The day your brother wakes up and plans to do you dirty, there's no defense against that.
When I make records I have full control of everything and I know how it sounds before it comes out, with films it's outta my hands.
I just don't believe that there's any way that you're ever gonna get one peace, because everybody has different ways of seeing life.
I'm afraid because some police are way out of control. My true feeling with police is this: If they do their job, there's no problem.
I've never been a cop hater. You know, when I was breaking the law, the cops were the opponent. I just thought I could outsmart them.
An MC is somebody who can control the crowd. An MC is a master of ceremonies so not only can you say your rap, you can rock the party.
I never know if the person I'm shaking hands with is coming to kill me. That's something you have to live with when you cross the lines.
I like crime movies where the crime is so incredible that, attractive as it seems, you don't wanna do it because it's just too dangerous.
AIDS is such a scary thing and it's also the kind of thing that you think won't happen to you. It can happen to you and it's deadly serious.
My father's family came from Virginia and Philadelphia. He wasn't a brother who talked a lot. He was a workingman, a quiet, blue-collar dude.
My father's family came from Virginia and Philadelphia. He wasn't a brother who talked a lot. He was a working man, a quiet, blue-collar dude.
I didn't really realize how big I was 'til I started to tour, because being in your own neighborhood, people don't actually give you full props.
There's a point where a cop pulls you out of that car and starts abusing you or beating on you and at that moment he is no longer within the law.
I have no hatred for cops. I have hatred for racists and brutal people, but not necessarily the cops. The cops are just doing what they're told to do.
My mother passed when I was in the third grade, my father when I was in the seventh, and that's when I was shipped to Los Angeles to live with an aunt.