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" I'm a big fan of all styles, even Biggie and Wu-Tang, but I gotta do my thing. "

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" Redemption just means you just make a change in your life and you try to do right, versus what you were doing, which was wrong. "

" I'm competitive in that I would like to outsell my last record. "

" I ain't got no beef with east coast, I think it's just being hyped up. "

" I have to grow with my audience. "

" I was born in Newark, New Jersey, and grew up in Summit, an upscale town in north Jersey. There was this tiny area of Summit where most of the black families lived. My parents and I lived in a duplex house on Williams Street. "

" When you start a business, go for the lowest hanging fruit. "

" I think L.A. radio is learning from the Bay. The Bay is a very classic place. Mac Mall, C-Bo, all that stuff, they love their artists, they're old school up there. My first big concert was playing in the Bay; I played the Fillmore. "

" I want to be able to say that a rap career could be ten albums. "

" The best way to listen to the album is to put it on, get some Moet, lay back with your boys, and kick it. "

" I make an effort to keep it as real as I possibly can. "

" When I first got into the rap game, I had an early dream of unifying rappers. "

" I've never been competitive with anybody but myself. "

" I think that men need to have a little bit of manism. You have feminism. I don't have a problem with that. "

" You have the core hip-hop, which would just be beats and breaks, more something like what you hear with DJ Premier. Then you get into the more highly produced hip-hop, which is something like what DJ Khaled does. But at some point, it starts to get kind of pop. "

" I have no hatred for cops. I have hatred for racists and brutal people, but not necessarily the cops. The cops are just doing what they're told to do. "

" I don't have to put out another rap record. I can do it at my casual pace. "

" If I'm going to be a jazz player, I need to understand Miles Davis. "

" I started rapping before anybody had ever bought a car from it. It was truly about the art form and the culture, more so than now, where it's a successful way to make money. Back then you had to be doing it because you liked it. "

" Oh man, nobody is as tough as Mr T. Ice T is pretty tough though as well. "

" I couldn't possibly have lived all the things that Ice-T on the records lived. "

" I think men, growing up, you have to go through some form of hardship. You've got to harden the metal. "

" I'm normal. I just had a different occupation for a while, and when you're in a different occupation, you have to carry yourself a different way. Most of my art is me bringing you stories from that era of my life. My life now is kind of boring. "

" 'New Jack City' was a perfect marriage of music and film. They used a lot of musicians: myself, Christopher Williams. People that were popular because of their music were given the chance to act. And the soundtrack was incredible. "

" Los Angeles is a microcosm of the United States. If L.A. falls, the country falls. "

" As an actor, you can do what you want with your role. That's why they hire you; to take the role and make it real. "

" I mean rappin' to me is easy, it's something you can do over a week. "

" I'm at a point where I don't have to wait for the income from the record to survive, so I'm in a comfortable zone, but I'll make rap records as long as I feel I have something to rap about. "

" If somebody wants to kill people, they don't need a gun to do it. "

" Because I first made my name as a rapper claiming South Central L.A., people often assume I'm strictly a West Coast cat. But my family was actually from back East. I was born in Newark, New Jersey, and grew up in Summit, an upscale town in north Jersey. "