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" I was born and raised in East Los Angeles by a single mom who had three biological kids and adopted four more. I never met my dad. "

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" If I didn't mould my reality then I'd still be in the ghetto where people like me are supposed to stay. You have to dream your way out of the nightmare. "

" Kids today aren't listening to music audio-only. They're picking up a CD and looking at the lyric sheet and wondering why the pictures aren't moving around. Who wants to do that? It's like Bam Bam Flintstone hanging with the dinosaurs vs. Elroy Jetson who's flying around space. If I'm a kid, I wanna be kicking it with Elroy. "

" When I got into junior high school, that's when my mom let me dress how I wanted to dress. Up to that point I wore suits to school all the time. "

" I've got all this stuff in my head at the same time as I'm doing stuff and I don't know how to stop or slow down. "

" I'm like a mama's boy and stuff. "

" I was born and raised in the ghetto, on welfare, two minutes from homeless. "

" I have a pro tools rig that I carry in my backpack. "

" Eisenhower warned us about the military-industrial complex and the damage it could do to society. "

" I don't dream to be like mega crazy rich. "

" I am hip-hop! "

" I've been truly protected by my uncles. "

" Romantic love is painful. "

" Black Eyed Peas is a chameleon group. "

" It's dangerous to be a child star, but it's dangerous to be a child in the ghetto, or to be a child at school being bullied. "

" If you listen to the songs I write, they are the most ADHD songs ever. They have five hooks in one and it all happens in three minutes. "

" I can't be quiet, as that's when I notice the ringing in my ears. "

" We need to forge a whole new energy and American Dream. "

" There are five issues that make a fist of a hand that can knock America out cold. They're lack of jobs, obesity, diabetes, homelessness, and lack of good education. "

" Most kids are not dreaming of being programmers, scientists or engineers. "

" You know, I do music. If you look under the hood of the industry I'm in, it's all based on technology. From radio to phonographs to CDs, it's all technology. Microphones, reel-to-reels, cameras, editing, chips, it's all technology. "

" Philanthropy is my job. "

" Crime and violence are the easiest emotions to reenact. "

" Everything affects hip-hop. The question is, how does it affect the money that corporations are going to invest to put out different kinds of hip-hop? "

" There's no chivalry in culture any more. Sometimes you meet someone who everyone says is polite and you're like, 'Wow,' but then it's like, 'Hang on, isn't everyone supposed to be polite?' "

" My favorite game is Madden. That's it. I'm a Madden addict. I go at it. "

" I don't need anyone to validate me. "

" I like all the families in the U.K. But what I like about the idea of the royal family is... they seem like they're well educated and there's something admirable about them. And the Queen... she reminds me of my grandma. "

" I don't like politics. "