"Usually people who attack the rap are people who aren't even fans."
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"Sports without music is just a game. Music makes it entertaining."
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"For me rappers and dancers are poets and artists and often times the most interesting performances are given by them."
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"If I only had 24 hours to live, I would spend the time telling everybody I love that I love them."
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"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."
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"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."
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"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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"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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"Well, for the transition from rapper to actor, I was fortunate that director John Singleton pursued me for about two years to be in Boyz 'N the Hood. I really wasn't even thinking about acting at the time, since I was singularly focused on being the best rapper in the world. So, that was really a blessing, because I wasn't really taking him seriously."
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"The police don't look at you as long when they drive past. Sometimes they don't look at you at all. In South Central, you've got them looking and lurking. I think it's basic harassment. It's part of their tactics to have everybody nervous of them. In the valley, at least I don't feel it the same way."
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"Everybody thinks the grass is greener on the other side. If you talk to most artists, they think they can play something, you know, "If I had stayed playing football in high school, if I had been doing basketball..." Everybody's got their fantasies and thinks the grass is greener. It's not. It's not."
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"No matter what part of the country you come from, you can always come together to make groundbreaking hip-hop."
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"When my nine goes buck, it will bust your head like a watermelon dropping 12 stories up."
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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."
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"I've always gotten good grades, you know, with my teachers and my English teachers, 'cause I was able to - they'd say, "What did you do for the summer?" I'm able to explain it to them in a written form. And my teachers always patted me on the back for that, being able to take what's in my mind and put it on paper."
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"You want the industry to finally admit that you're good. But I'm still good without their admission."
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"My son Darrel could recite 'Straight Outta Compton' at two years old. He loved it! You can expose your kids to anything as long as you sit there and explain it to them."
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"The creative process of making a movie really turned me on. I'd started getting behind the scenes with a camcorder and VHS tape when making music videos."
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"I never go to the Grammys. I just never go. I don't know if I care enough, and I went because my son wanted to go, and they asked us to present Best Hip Hop Group of the Year. You know, we had two records from Compton in there, and it was just like a cool thing to do, and to do with your son, and it was just cool. But we was the first award up, so after I did my thing I just jumped in the car and came on back home."
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"I've done movies for certain reasons; I did 'Anaconda' because the black man lives. Simple. The black man isn't dead in the first three pages, like Jurassic Park. It's like, 'The black man kills the snake with a Latino girl? Damn! I got to do this.'"
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