Humpty Dumpty sat on the wall with a joint, drinking some eight-ball.
Get a grip, Oreo, and be true to the game.
You wanna be remembered for making an impact and changing things. I guess for the good or for the bad, it don’t matter. But I guess you just wanna be remembered when it’s all said and done.
Doing it your own way, not having to go exactly by the book to be successful.
I think reading is important in any form. I think a person who’s trying to learn to like reading should start off reading about a topic they are interested in, or a person they are interested in.
I love music. It’s freedom, a way to deal with pent-up frustration.
Everybody who comes from the gangster life – they want what that man in the suburbs wants. Nice family. Nice house. Nice cars. Bills paid. Kids in school. Food on the table. Nothing more.
Rap is just somebody getting something off his chest. That’s all it is.
Anything that got to do with a pig, I ain’t eatin’.
Ice Cube is the piece of me that I give away to the public.
You can do anything in the world if you say “Hey man, don’t blame me, the devil made me do it.” It’s an easy way to escape responsibility.
I used to love to draw. I didn’t want to go to art class because I felt that would be too corny when I was young, but architectural drafting was the cool thing to do because there was more precision. It taught me a lot about building and structures and doorways and frames and windowsills.
Most of the problems that we have are brought on by the government and not by music. Music is a mirror of what we’re going through, not the cause of what we’re going through.
I know that there are obstacles; I know that there are hills to climb, I know there were people before me that made my journey easier and there are people behind me that I have made the journey easier for.
It’s easier for me to get comedies made because of my track record. Everybody needs to find their niche. I love dramas, but I understand that I am still just a young man in moviemaking. I know there will be some time to get back to that.
What I learned from architectural drafting is that everything has to have a plan to work. You just can’t wing it. I can’t get all the materials I need for a house and just start building. Whether it’s a career, family, life – you have to plan it out.
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.
To me, in a perfect world, you have the flavor and the magic of movies like 48 Hours, Lethal Weapon and Bad Boys.
If you think about stuff that happened when you were young, it stays with you forever.
I’m not actually from Compton – I’m from South Central Los Angeles, and my father still lives in the same house I grew up in, so I’m there all the time.