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Early in my career, people wanted to hear music about protest, about trying to change things.

Ice Cube

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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Body Bury Money Race Root
I grew up in the seventies and disco was big. That influenced me the most.
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Growth Influence Music Myself
The real is always presented. That hardcore record or movie is not needed in the hood, because it’s already there. You can see it with your own eyes.
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Eyes Hard Present Reality Record Yourself
If I only had 24 hours to live, I would spend the time telling everybody I love that I love them.
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Live Love Myself Time
A bird in the hand is worth more than a Bush.
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Gratitude Hands Worth
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
I always want to read the script before I totally commit.
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Commitment Myself Reading Scripture
Keep doin’ what you’re doin’, fall in love with what you’re creating, and everything else will fall into place.
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Creation Fall In Love Place Yourself
I’m not really into the political game as far as paying politicians and stuff like that, I’m not into that. You do your job, and I’ll do mine.
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Game Job Pay Politics Yourself
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
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
Don’t talk about death, I’ve got too much life to live, To many orders to give.
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Death Life Live Myself Order
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
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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Believe Black Myself Pencil People Sharp Talk White
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
I think the worst thing you can do about a situation is nothing.
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Myself Situation Thinking Worst
Our household is built on love and respect. And we don’t really let negative vibes stay too long. It’s worked out. I got a great family, great kids.
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Family Greatness Love Myself Respect Work
I love music. It’s freedom, a way to deal with pent-up frustration.
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Freedom Frustration Music Myself
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
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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God Myself Place World
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
You want the industry to finally admit that you’re good. But I’m still good without their admission.
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Acceptance Admission Goodness Industry Yourself
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
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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God Image Man Myself Television White
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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Fair Place Race Sports Time
I identify with the bottom of the pyramid, because, outside of having money, I am at the bottom of the pyramid.
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Bottom Identify Money Myself
A lot of people have a misconception of what the ghetto is all about. You know, it’s only a small percentage of the people that are bad. Everybody else is good.
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Bad Goodness People Small Yourself

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