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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.
No matter what part of the country you come from, you can always come together to make groundbreaking hip-hop.
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.
I identify with the bottom of the pyramid, because, outside of having money, I am at the bottom of the pyramid.
I hear about people getting shot all the time. But most of the guys you hear about getting shot pulled through.
Keep doin' what you're doin', fall in love with what you're creating, and everything else will fall into place.
When I was six, God was a white man with a big beard riding on a white cloud. That's the image television pumps.
To me, in a perfect world, you have the flavor and the magic of movies like 48 Hours, Lethal Weapon and Bad Boys.
When I did 'Boyz N The Hood', I never thought how we grew up in South Central was interesting enough for a movie.
My problem is that I never get through the whole book. I skim through this one, that one, and then the other one.
Can't step from one movie set to the next. Only Samuel L. Jackson can do that. All us mere mortals can't do that!
I go light on breakfast. Sometimes it's a yogurt, but a lot of times it's leftovers from one of my wife's dinners.
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.
When I was in N.W.A. and didn't get paid all the money I was owed, that's when the business side of showbiz hit me.
Sometimes you got to start somewhere. And it's cool, as long as where you start is not where you plan on finishing.
You really have to challenge yourself to come out of those parameters that they put you in, even if that's your job.
For me rappers and dancers are poets and artists and often times the most interesting performances are given by them.
I can't really attribute my success onscreen to any formula and suggest you "do this or that" to make it as an actor.
A lot of movies will deliver on the promotion but when you go see them, everything you laughed at was in the trailer.
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.
I always say the movie came out good if they want another one. That always tells me that people really liked the movie.
I'm ready to run a studio. I'm ready to green light movies, and be in it to win it, you know? It's close. It'll happen.
I'm a good counter comedian. I can just work it off with looks, or have something crazy to say back. That works for me.
If you really think back to the culture or just black America before rap music took off, New York could have been Paris.
People wanted to have fun more than they wanted to learn from their music, and that's where the shift started to happen.
Don't want to hear my favorite rapper doin' a love song. If I want to hear something soft, I'll throw on Luther Vandross.
It never gets old. Working with somebody like Kevin Hart is rejuvenating in a lot of ways. He's such a pro. He's so good.
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.
Anybody that really knew Tupac will tell you the same thing. That he was just a dude that was full of life, full of energy.
I've been around a lot longer than most rappers stay around. So I don't feel like, I haven't made too many career mistakes.
If you really look at my lyrics, nobody's exempt. Nobody's exempt from observation, criticism or what I think is correction.
The movie industry is one big collaboration. Music gives me that freedom to create things straight from my heart and my mind.
When you have a good movie, it's hard to categorize it. It's everything. It makes you laugh, makes you cry and makes you think.
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.
I still want to put together bigger and better programs to work with the community. I still think I could do better on that end.
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.
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.
People are still tied to their hoods, and it's usually not the artist, it's usually the friends and instigators who get it popping.
You learn that Hollywood has its own rules, sometimes. And it's tricky, and sometimes you can't see what's coming around the corner.
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 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."
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.
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.
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.
I know my flavor's going to work because I just know there's not a lot of guys like me around. So you got to figure out what's that about you.
I'm interested in how things are put together, and that's more interesting to me than just regular shows, even though I like The Walking Dead.
Run DMC brought us out of that underground-only feel. They brought rap above ground and made it respectable as an art form to mainstream music.
"Are We There Yet?" was the perfect title, because it's such a common saying. And having made the movie with the same name kinda locks it all in.
Some people have a taboo about doing advertising in the States. You know, where they kind of make their bread and butter. But to me, that's crazy.