Music is really a medicine, it can make you feel good.

I had a song back in 1992 talking about 'It's all good.' Then my partner Theo who used to work for 92.3 The Beat in L.A. started saying 'You know it's all good' on the radio and everybody took it back to their soils like that was the new Cali word. But that's a regular word form the Bay Area.

I love funk! That's the music I grew up on.

I would like to work with Dr. Dre.

What motivates me is true talent, it's golden when talent acknowledge talent.

I respect cats that can rap and everything, but the artist that inspires me is Turf Talk.

I'm what they call an intelligent hoodlum.

I'm living proof that there's no age limit to rapping.

Slang is really coded talk. I can say a few things, in front of somebody, that only people who know what I'm saying are going to pick up on.

In the early '90s, Too Short was like one of the first dudes who kinda discovered Lil Jon. So I always used to see him at concerts and we'd pow wow - a good dude, you know?

However God had it planned, I'm rockin' with how he do it. He took the steering wheel and I'm letting him drive.

I just love sports.

Before me, there was no offbeat flow.

Ebonics is me. I'm the king of slang, hands down.

I did a double CD, 'The Element of Surprise,' in 1998. That album went gold.

I've been rapping on some crunk beats and getting down on the South music for years. I feel like I can do it all.

Rick Barry always amazed me - he was one of the best free-throw shooters of all time, and he used to throw it underhand.

It's always a dream come true to do music with your pops. And your son.

I used to love Talking Heads, Peter Gabriel, and the Human League.

I looked up to Too Short before I was making my own music.

I didn't invent the word 'hyphy' and I'm not trying to say I'm the king of hyphy.

I just respect people and mind my business. I don't got time to worry about what the next man's pockets are looking like, I gotta worry about what mine are looking like and my family.

I think the Internet is right on time. I think it's very important. It's reaching out to millions of people. Even the most slimiest and grimiest hood cats out got iPhones and Smartphones so they're able to view everything on the Internet, so they're well in tuned to what's going on.

When I had my house in '96, I had a Warriors basketball court built.