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You don’t wanna mess up what you’ve done. It’s like Jordan coming back: You’re scared to mess up the legacy.

Ice Cube

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
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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Limitation Planning Start Wrong Yourself
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
I always want to read the script before I totally commit.
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Commitment Myself Reading Scripture
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
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
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 love any time you can enlighten people to mistakes, that’s how I started my career.
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Career Enlightenment Love Myself Start Time
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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Goodness Pay Place School Time Yourself
I’ve been fighting my whole career to show a different side and prove naysayers – not prove them wrong, because I don’t think you should get your energy from negative people.
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Career Different Energy Fight Myself Negative People
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
I think the worst thing you can do about a situation is nothing.
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Myself Situation Thinking Worst
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 grew up in the seventies and disco was big. That influenced me the most.
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Growth Influence Music Myself
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 think about stuff that happened when you were young, it stays with you forever.
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Forever Stay Thinking Young Yourself
Create your own path, hone your talent, be ready to show your talent, and don’t doubt yourself.
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Creation Doubt Path Talent Yourself
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
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 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
Rap is just somebody getting something off his chest. That’s all it is.
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Burden Freedom Music Rap Song
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 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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Goodness Ingredient Movie Myself
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
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
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 think, to me, reality is better than being fake.
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Better Fake Myself Thinking

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