A bird in the hand is worth more than a Bush.
I always want to read the script before I totally commit.
People associate clothes with actual behavior, and it’s kind of crazy. If you get shot in some Levi’s you don’t go after Levi’s. It’s not the clothes. It’s always the people.
Snoop Dog is the Phil Jackson of youth football coaches. He ain’t going to accept nothing but a winner.
Early in my career, people wanted to hear music about protest, about trying to change things.
I figured, when I make a movie, especially earlier in my career, one thing I was going to make sure was that the movie doesn’t cost a lot and that it has potential to make a lot of money. That’s how you get respect in Hollywood.
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.
Rapping is talking and communicating, and that’s always good.
I want to do more drama. Comedy is the path of least resistance for my company. People know we can do them. People know they get a good response. People want to make them. Who am I to push up against that?
Rap is always evolving. It’s easy for the old school to hate the new school, but it’s a music that got a little stifled I think, by the Internet a little bit.
I grew up in the seventies and disco was big. That influenced me the most.
Creating is really what I like to do. The best thing in the world is to have an idea in the back of your head and then to make that idea into a movie and have people all over the world enjoy it.
Don’t get a movie confused with real life. I’m a well-rounded human being like everyone else.
Any time there’s racism somewhere in sports, we should get it out of there because sports is a place where everything’s supposed to be fair.
Sports without music is just a game. Music makes it entertaining.
You like a woman, she’s got kids, it’s a package. You can’t just go in one-sided.
I usually don’t mind movies that people think go overboard because that’s what art is all about. Art is about pushing us and making us examine ourselves.
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. Even if I let it go off and go crazy, I’m still the voice of keeping things grounded in reality.
My son Darrel could recite ‘Straight Outta Compton’ at two years old. He loved it! You can expose your kids to anything as long as you sit there and explain it to them.
I think rap music is brought up, gangster rap in particular, as well as video games, every other thing they try to hang the ills of society on as a scapegoat.