"The moral is that a career can be gone in an instant. And all you have in this world are the people you love."

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

"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."

"Sports without music, it's nothing but a game. Music adds the emotion."

"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."

"I remember wishing there was snow in L.A. And how jealous we used to get of those Christmas specials with kids playing in the snow."

"I have a lot of milestones that I'm proud of when it comes to music, 'Amerikkka's Most Wanted,' I'm extremely proud of that. Just because of what I had to go through to get that music produced, that album produced."

"I definitely support cop acting more than cops, but all of them ain't bad, just some of them."

"I don't get nothing but love. In every ghetto all over the world. Nothing but love. They respect that I came outta there and I'm doing it the right way. You can't do nothing but respect that."

"I love any time you can enlighten people to mistakes, that's how I started my career."

"South Central is just who I am."

"I still enjoy doing music. I'm not going to stop doing it, and doing it the way that I feel it should be done."

"For me rappers and dancers are poets and artists and often times the most interesting performances are given by them."

"The best thing I've done with my money is buy a house for my family. You wake up to a house you love and you feel like somebody."

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

"Rap is always evolving. It's easy for the old school to hate the new school, but it's a music that got a little stifled I think, by the Internet a little bit."

"I really appreciate family. I really can't imagine life without them!"

"South Central is just who I am. Even though I have a nice house, nice family, the rest of my generation is still in South Central L.A. My cousins, my brothers, my sisters, they don't wanna move out."

"Rap is just somebody getting something off his chest. That's all it is."

"We're in this entertainment business really to give the audience what they want."

"When I did 'Boyz N The Hood', I never thought how we grew up in South Central was interesting enough for a movie."

"My thing is, I know kids cuss, they do their thing, but I tell my kids, 'Don't do it in earshot of any adults, or you're in trouble.'"

"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."

"You like a woman, "she"'s got kids, it's a package. You can't just go in one-sided."