"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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"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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"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."
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"I was a very interested arts student, I was always into that part of school and when I got into high school I went into architectural drafting. It gave me an understanding of how to build things and it’s really helped me put things in perspective. With my music and my movies, to me it’s all art."
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"I always want to read the script before I totally commit."
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"The silver and black may have another home, but the Raiders will always belong to the people of Los Angeles."
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"Early in my career, people wanted to hear music about protest, about trying to change things."
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"You know it ain't no stoppin' All the doggs I'm droppin' It's Friday night, so everything is poppin."
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"Snoop Dog is the Phil Jackson of youth football coaches. He ain't going to accept nothing but a winner."
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"You like a woman, she's got kids, it's a package. You can't just go in one-sided."
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"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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"God damn, it's a brand new payback From the straight gangsta mack in straight gangsta black How many motherfuckers gotta pay Went to the shelf and dusted off the AK Caps gotta get peeled Cause "The Nigga Ya Love to hate" still can "Kill at Will""
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"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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"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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"We should love the fact that we're not just getting one point of view. That we have this diversity in entertainment, and people are not scared to be themselves, and people are not scared to make people uncomfortable, and that's all part of it. That's all part of being free."
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"If you really look at my lyrics, nobody's exempt. Nobody's exempt from observation, criticism or what I think is correction."
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"I think when hip hop first started, people were open to it, and groups like Public Enemy and there was groups like Poor Righteous Teachers and all these people who were spitting a lot of knowledge, a lot of history, questioning a lot of societal barriers was starting to be super popular."
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"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.'"
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"Twerking has to end. Not for the ones that look good doing it, but for all the ones that you feel, 'You don't have enough to twerk back there. Your twerkin' look like jerkin.'"
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"If it was all about me, I'd do a whole lot of pop records, make a whole lot of money, just rake in the dough. But it's never been all about me. It's all about being a voice for the voiceless. People who can't speak for themselves, who don't have a mic, don't have a say."
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