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.
For me rappers and dancers are poets and artists and often times the most interesting performances are given by them.
I’ve done movies for certain reasons; I did ‘Anaconda’ because the black man lives. Simple. The black man isn’t dead in the first three pages, like Jurassic Park. It’s like, ‘The black man kills the snake with a Latino girl? Damn! I got to do this.’
Went to the shelf and dusted off the AK, cops gotta get pealed.
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.
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.
When I was six, God was a white man with a big beard riding on a white cloud. That’s the image television pumps.
I always say the movie came out good if they want another one. That always tells me that people really liked the movie.
The silver and black may have another home, but the Raiders will always belong to the people of Los Angeles.
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.’
The creative process of making a movie really turned me on. I’d started getting behind the scenes with a camcorder and VHS tape when making music videos.
I used to game a lot, you know, back in the day. My gaming time done got so short that my skills ain’t where they need to be to be online, you know what I’m saying? I just got that Xbox One. I gotta get my skills back, up the par to call myself a gamer.
South Central is just who I am.
You don’t wanna mess up what you’ve done. It’s like Jordan coming back: You’re scared to mess up the legacy.
We don’t do movies for the industry. We do movies for the fans, for the people. If the industry give you a trophy or not, or pat you on the back or not, it’s nice, but it’s not something you should dwell on.
I’m always happy. I’ve just got a mean face.
My problem is that I never get through the whole book. I skim through this one, that one, and then the other one.
I don’t listen to nothing while I’m in the studio, because I don’t want to be influenced by anybody else.
The moral is that a career can be gone in an instant. And all you have in this world are the people you love.
I love any time you can enlighten people to mistakes, that’s how I started my career.