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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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" My grandmother worked at one of those Bel-Air mansions, and we would go - not too often, but every now and then - to pick her up. Hollywood was probably 12 miles from my house, but it might as well have been a million miles away. The only time I saw that world was on TV. Until I started making records. "

" My son, O'Shea. He looks like me, and he can rhyme. "

" 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 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. "

" 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. "

" I'm just an entertainer, man. I don't like to pigeonhole myself to anything. I love to do it all. "

" I love music. It's freedom, a way to deal with pent-up frustration. "

" 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.' "

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

" It's not like I'm the first man ever to do this, y'know? You gotta go back to Nat King Cole, Bing Crosby and Sammy Davis Jr. Those are people who've done music well and movies well, and y'know, Frank Sinatra and Elvis and all these dudes have made the transition. I don't know about Elvis, 'bout doin' 'em good, y'know? It's nothin' new. "

" With film, I have to be a team player; it's a whole different thing. I can't just be a one-man show. I have to learn how to use people to the best of their ability and motivate them to be as passionate about the project as I am. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" Music has done a lot to enhance the emotions of sports. It's played in arenas. Whenever there is footage cut together they're always using music. And it goes together, you know. "

" There's a lot of talent in South Central L.A., in Compton and Long Beach and Watts, and the city north of Pico pretty much sits back and waits for that talent to emerge and then steps in. "

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

" I think reading is important in any form. I think a person who's trying to learn to like reading should start off reading about a topic they are interested in, or a person they are interested in. "

" 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.' "

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

" Gangsta to us didn't have anything to do with Al Capone and stuff like that. It's just about living your life the way you want to live it. And you're not going to let nothing stop you. "

" I did 'Are We There Yet?' because I wanted to do a movie for my fans' kids. Black kids don't really see movies on this budget for them, starring them. And there's so many white kids that love that movie. "

" 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. "

" There's never really been a real hood Christmas movie. "

" 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 wake up at 5:30, 6 in the morning, but don't head into the office right away. I like to hang out with my wife, talk about things, get some coffee, you know. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" Obama reminds me of the black kid at a white school that don't nobody want to play with. "