I been all around the world and I haven’t found a city that I’d rather be from or rather come back to than Los Angeles.
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Rap is just somebody getting something off his chest. That’s all it is.
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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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If you think about stuff that happened when you were young, it stays with you forever.
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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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You pay to have a good time, you don’t always want to pay to be schooled or sad or reminded how bad you got it. To me a movie theater ain’t always the place for that.
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I grew up in the seventies and disco was big. That influenced me the most.
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I’m always open, and will criticize myself, too. And I just think being that honest with everybody puts you in a different space than somebody who’s just shooting venom at a certain group or a certain amount of individuals.
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The hardest period for a writer is the period in-between writing. That’s when you can go crazy if you don’t allow the creative juices to flow.
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Money is the root of all evil. Yeah, money is the root. It’s not racism and “this-ism” and “that-ism”; it’s our thirst and hunger for money. And that’s where all the bodies are buried.
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There’s nothing wrong with starting off in a box, but you got to have a plan to come out that box.
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Any time there’s racism somewhere in sports, we should get it out of there because sports is a place where everything’s supposed to be fair.
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Sometimes, when you want to laugh, reality steps in.
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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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I believe every pencil has to be sharpened every now and then to stay sharp, or you dull out. So my records, I chose to speak on what black people do, what white people do, what women do, what men do.
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I’m always the “less is more” guy when it comes to a scene. So I’ma be the one who will keep it grounded. Even if I let it go off and go crazy, I’m still the voice of keeping things grounded in reality.
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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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Early in my career, people wanted to hear music about protest, about trying to change things.
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I don’t cook gumbo, but I just know it’s a lot of good ingredients in it. And, with a movie, you got to have all those ingredients.
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When I was six, God was a white man with a big beard riding on a white cloud. That’s the image television pumps.
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I always was like, “Yo, I’m here, I might as well get what I could take.”
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I wish the world would become what God wanted it to be in the first place, before we tampered with it.
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Don’t worry about being a star, worry about doing good work, and all that will come to you.
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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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I never was in the Nation of Islam… I mean, what I call myself is a natural Muslim, ’cause it’s just me and God.
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Don’t get a movie confused with real life. I’m a well-rounded human being like everyone else.
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Don’t talk about death, I’ve got too much life to live, To many orders to give.
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