“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.”

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

It’s Christmas time and my rhyme’s steady bumpin. Everybody happy, hair still nappy, Gonna steal a gift for my old grandpappy.

If the ride is more fly, then you must buy.

The most important decision I’ve made in business? The choices of people I have around me. When I first started I brought everybody with me, my homies from the neighborhood, criminals. I just said, ‘Come on everybody, we made it.’ Then I had to realize we didn’t make it. I made it.

The best advice I’ve ever got is to be yourself. Stay true to who you are and what you stand for and you’ll go far in life.

I have always said I was Bob Marley reincarnated.

Your only gain is to try to get me to fall down to your level. Man, you worser than devils.

It’s so easy for a kid to join a gang, to do drugs. We should make it that easy to be involved in football and academics.

Be your own leader, be your own self, step out of my shadows and be your own person.

What I try to push and promote is peace through the whole music industry.

Know when to lie to your kids.

I just change with the times. I really don’t have a say in what’s going on. Music was here before me.

When I’m not longer rapping, I want to open up an ice cream parlor and call myself Scoop Dogg.

Do what your heart tells you is right.

I’ve always been a student, so I want to learn.

Cut throats, gun smoke, dope, and hoes, is what controls niggas souls.

I was asked for years about being a Republican, probably because most black people are Democrats. My mother heard it once and called me and said ‘Charles, Republicans are for the rich people.’ And I said, ‘Mom, I’m rich.’

I think anybody who is racist is an idiot whether they are black or white.

Having grown up in a segregated environment in the south I know what it’s like to be stepped on, I know what it’s like also to see some black hero do well in the face of adversity.

I’m racist? How can that even be possible? I was a friend of Michael Jackson’s back when he was black.

When you’re black, you have to deal with so much crap in your life from other black people. It’s a dirty, dark secret; I’m glad it’s coming out.

I strongly believe the black culture spends too much time, energy and effort raising, praising, and teasing our black children about the dubious glories of professional sports.

I strongly believe the black culture spends too much time, energy and effort raising, praising, and teasing our black children about the dubious glories of professional sports.

Poor white people and poor black people just don’t know how much they have in common. Rich people don’t give a damn about either group.