"The next day, I got a phone call from him and he told me to come and read for a movie called New Jack City. So I went over there and they told me I was gonna wear dreads and play a cop."

"Everything we do helps the new artists in the long run."

"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."

"You have to come in on a professional level to make it, otherwise you just can't get into rap."

"Well, I am very happy that I was able to play a part in bringing music from the streets onto the radio and into modern culture, I worked very hard and always believed in the sounds I was creating."

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

"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."

"So from an actor's perspective, you really have no idea how you're acting."

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

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

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

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

"As long as I'm around the cats in the hip hop scene, they'll throw me a track and I'll write a rap over it."

"We have groups that do that, but I can't rap with the mentality of an 18 year old when I'm in my 30's."

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

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