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" I was ready to get out of the box and play something a little different than what everybody has seen. "

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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. "

" 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. "

" I have a lot of milestones that I'm proud of when it comes to music, 'Amerikkka's Most Wanted,' I'm extremely proud of that. Just because of what I had to go through to get that music produced, that album produced. "

" I'm not actually from Compton - I'm from South Central Los Angeles, and my father still lives in the same house I grew up in, so I'm there all the time. "

" 'Boyz-n-the-Hood' was actually supposed to be written for Eazy's group. He had a group out in New York called Home Boys Only, called HBO. One of them looked like LL Cool J. Eazy wanted to write a song for them, a street song, like what we were doing on the mix tapes. So when I wrote it, it was too West Coast for them. "

" Doing it your own way, not having to go exactly by the book to be successful. "

" What I learned from architectural drafting is that everything has to have a plan to work. You just can't wing it. I can't get all the materials I need for a house and just start building. Whether it's a career, family, life - you have to plan it out. "

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

" Truth is the ultimate power. When the truth comes around, all the lies have to run and hide. "

" Sports without music is just a game. Music makes it entertaining. "

" It never gets old. Working with somebody like Kevin Hart is rejuvenating in a lot of ways. He's such a pro. He's so good. "

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

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

" I'm not really into the political game as far as paying politicians and stuff like that, I'm not into that. You do your job, and I'll do mine. "

" 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.' "

" I'm not the type of actor who is trying to do a whole bunch of different stuff, you know what I mean? "

" I love any time you can enlighten people to mistakes, that's how I started my career. "

" It's funny how people who ain't never been down there can think that America is so fair and that we should be alright. It's funny that the people who have their foot on our neck are telling us, 'Get up. What's wrong with you?' "

" 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. "

" I have great people, smart people that are around me and we love the challenge. I guess it's like climbing a mountain or building a building. It's a challenge but you love every challenge that it brings or presents itself. "

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

" 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. "

" I definitely support cop acting more than cops, but all of them ain't bad, just some of them. "

" 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 have a really beautiful life right now, so there is no reason to be hostile. I'm a husband, a father and a man who tries to do the right thing in life and in my work. "

" 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. "

" I make a mean cup of coffee, if you give me the right ingredients. "

" When I did 'Boyz N The Hood', I never thought how we grew up in South Central was interesting enough for a movie. "

" Early in my career, people wanted to hear music about protest, about trying to change things. "