“I never get tired of 'It Was A Good Day' references or jokes or anything like that. It's just, you know, keeping my biggest hit alive. Nothing wrong with that.”
“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.”
“I do what I do. You like it, great. You don't, go listen to somebody else. I'm stickin' with the people who stuck with me.”
“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.'”
“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 love music. It's freedom, a way to deal with pent-up frustration.”
“I really appreciate family. I really can't imagine life without 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.”
“Rap is just somebody getting something off his chest. That's all it is.”
“But with rap music - not just N.W.A. - but rap music in general, seeing these artists wearing these team logos all the time started bringing a synergy and energy about having to rep your city, your team, everywhere and all the time.”