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" Rap is just somebody getting something off his chest. That's all it is. "
Ice Cube
Off
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Something
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" 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. "
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" We're in this entertainment business really to give the audience what they want. "
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Audience
" 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. "
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" Our records, if you have a dark sense of humor, were funny, but our records weren't about comedy. They were about protests, fantasy, confrontation and all that. "
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" Don't get a movie confused with real life. I'm a well-rounded human being like everyone else. "
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Confused
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" 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. "
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" I've been caught in parachute pants. And on my high school yearbook, they used the wrong picture. They were supposed to use the picture of me with a nice suit on. They used me with my collar flipped up, in a fuchsia and white striped shirt. I blame Prince and Michael Jackson in the Eighties for that. "
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Blame
School
" I believe how you measure a good movie is how many times you can see it. With comedies, I like to be a producer, because comedies can get corny and go off track real fast. I'm always the 'less is more' guy when it comes to a scene. So I'ma be the one who will keep it grounded. "
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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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" 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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" 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. "
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People
Me
" I really appreciate family. I really can't imagine life without them! "
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Appreciate
" Young people are dying for no reason all over the world that don't know why. It's ugly, everywhere. "
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Dying
Know
People
" My worst ever car was a green Datsun B210, back when they called it 'Datsun' - now it's 'Nissan.' Very unsexy, unattractive. Girls hated the car. I was embarrassed to even be in it... but it was my transportation. "
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Green
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Transportation
" Snoop Dog is the Phil Jackson of youth football coaches. He ain't going to accept nothing but a winner. "
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Accept
" Doing it your own way, not having to go exactly by the book to be successful. "
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Doing
Way
Successful
" My son, O'Shea. He looks like me, and he can rhyme. "
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He
Son
Rhyme
" 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. "
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Man
Father
Now
" 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.' "
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Trouble
Tell
Cuss
" Anything that got to do with a pig, I ain't eatin'. "
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" 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. "
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" 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. "
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Man
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" I think the worst thing you can do about a situation is nothing. "
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Worst
" I still enjoy doing music. I'm not going to stop doing it, and doing it the way that I feel it should be done. "
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" 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. "
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" I remember wishing there was snow in L.A. And how jealous we used to get of those Christmas specials with kids playing in the snow. "
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Used
" I was ready to get out of the box and play something a little different than what everybody has seen. "
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Different
Little
" I'm trying to cut down a little on eating, on sodium, keep my blood pressure down, which is tough. Because I love food! I do, but it's unfair how everything that's bad for you tastes so good, and all the good stuff, veggies and green things, doesn't match up. "
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Tough
Pressure
" 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! "
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" I think, to me, reality is better than being fake. "
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