"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."
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""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."
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"There's not enough Ice Cubes out there. There's not enough Ice Cubes getting a chance to do their thing."
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"Sometimes when you're relegated to your neighborhood, you forget that there's more important things than your neighborhood going on out in the world. And that just gave me a chance to see how life could be. And it gave me a chance to interact with everybody, not just black people or Mexicans. It made me just a little more worldly."
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"I think rap music is brought up, gangster rap in particular, as well as video games, every other thing they try to hang the ills of society on as a scapegoat."
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"I always say the movie came out good if they want another one. That always tells me that people really liked the movie."
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"I figured, when I make a movie, especially earlier in my career, one thing I was going to make sure was that the movie doesn't cost a lot and that it has potential to make a lot of money. That's how you get respect in Hollywood."
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"Rapping is talking and communicating, and that's always good."
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"I usually don't mind movies that people think go overboard because that's what art is all about. Art is about pushing us and making us examine ourselves."
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"You ask me, "Did I like Arsenio?" About as much as the Bicentennial."
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"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."
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"I've got a basketball signed by all the greats from Julius Irving to Oscar Robinson. It was at an All Star game I got them all to sign it. So that ain't going nowhere. I'm going to die with that in my casket."
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"I've been fighting my whole career to show a different side and prove naysayers - not prove them wrong, because I don't think you should get your energy from negative people."
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"South Central is just who I am."
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"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."
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"I used to game a lot, you know, back in the day. My gaming time done got so short that my skills ain't where they need to be to be online, you know what I'm saying? I just got that Xbox One. I gotta get my skills back, up the par to call myself a gamer."
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"I’m a B-boy at heart. I still like rhyming. It’s just the radio game is like Chinese arithmetic. It’s hard to know what nuts to crack. But I still love music, been dropping music. Never stopped really."
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"The '80s was brand new. It was AIDS. It was gangbanging. It was starting to become big dope-dealing, and crack was starting to flood the neighborhoods. And then you had hip hop, which was something new, other than what we were doing, which was sports, playing football, basketball, baseball. And I was excited."
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"I get freedom out of hip-hop. I get to be a true artist without any shackles or harnesses."
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"When I did 'Boyz N The Hood', I never thought how we grew up in South Central was interesting enough for a movie."
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