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You want the industry to finally admit that you’re good. But I’m still good without their admission.

Ice Cube

I think everybody likes a person that stands up for themselves. Nobody likes a punk or a coward.
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Coward Myself Person Stand Thinking
I am only 33, I’ve got a lot to do. This is the first half of my career. I’m looking forward to the future and I’m proud about the past.
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Age Career Future Myself Past Proud
My advice for anyone who wants to follow in my footsteps: create your own path, hone your talent, be ready to show your talent, and don’t doubt yourself.
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Advice Creation Doubt Follow Talent Yourself
The moral is that a career can be gone in an instant. And all you have in this world are the people you love.
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Career Instant Love Moral People Yourself
I think the worst thing you can do about a situation is nothing.
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Myself Situation Thinking Worst
I always was like, “Yo, I’m here, I might as well get what I could take.”
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Ability Myself Potential Right Self Love
Sometimes, when you want to laugh, reality steps in.
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Laughter Reality Time Yourself
I do what I do. You like it, great. You don’t, go listen to somebody else. I’m stickin’ with the people who stuck with me.
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Freedom Greatness Listening Myself People Willing
I definitely support cop acting more than cops, but all of them ain’t bad, just some of them.
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Act Bad Myself Person Support
I have a really beautiful life right now, so there is no reason to be hostile. I’m a husband, a father and a man who tries to do the right thing in life and in my work.
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Beautiful Father Life Myself Reason Work
Most of the problems that we have are brought on by the government and not by music. Music is a mirror of what we’re going through, not the cause of what we’re going through.
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Government Myself Problem
You can do anything in the world if you say “Hey man, don’t blame me, the devil made me do it. It’s an easy way to escape responsibility.”
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Blame Escape Man Responsibility World Yourself
To me, in a perfect world, you have the flavor and the magic of movies like 48 Hours, Lethal Weapon and Bad Boys.
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Magic Man Myself Perfection
I think, to me, reality is better than being fake.
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Better Fake Myself Thinking
You wanna be remembered for making an impact and changing things.And I guess for the good or for the bad, it don’t matter. But I guess you just wanna be remembered when it’s all said and done.
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Change Impact Live Myself Remember
If you think about stuff that happened when you were young, it stays with you forever.
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Forever Stay Thinking Young Yourself
The thing is with hip-hop, it has its waves and the waves crash against the beach and the new waves come in. So to stay relevant you have to roll with that.
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Flow Life Roll Stay Yourself
There’s a lot of potential that goes unused in places like South Central L.A., a lot of brilliant, smart people who just don’t have that chance to show it.
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Brilliant People Potential Smart Talent
Early in my career, people wanted to hear music about protest, about trying to change things.
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Career Change Early Inspirational Music People Try
The silver and black may have another home, but the Raiders will always belong to the people of Los Angeles.
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Black Home People
Don’t get a movie confused with real life. I’m a well-rounded human being like everyone else.
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Confusion Human Life Movie Myself
I have great people, smart people that are around me and we love the challenge. I guess it’s like climbing a mountain or building a building. It’s a challenge but you love every challenge that it brings or presents itself.
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Build Challenge Greatness Myself People Present
You never get tired of seeing yourself on TV. It’s always extra cool… always a treat.
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Myself Seeing Tired Treat
I’m not actually from Compton – I’m from South Central Los Angeles, and my father still lives in the same house I grew up in, so I’m there all the time.
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Father Myself Time
Creating is really what I like to do. The best thing in the world is to have an idea in the back of your head and then to make that idea into a movie and have people all over the world enjoy it.
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Best Creation Enjoyment Ideas Myself People World
If you love what you do, and you believe in your talent, there’s nothing better than breaking through. There’s no better feeling than breaking through.
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Believe Better Break Feeling Love Talent Yourself
You like a woman, she’s got kids, it’s a package. You can’t just go in one-sided.
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Acceptance Children Family Myself Woman

You want the industry to finally admit that you’re good. But I’m still good without their admission.

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