Nothing important is completely explicable.
I just make music based on what I believe.
All of a sudden it became that hip hop didn't used to be about partying; hip hop used to be about putting out a message.
When my daughter was born, that was the first time I cried from happiness.
A lot of people heard about gin and juice for the first time from Snoop Dogg, but it was nothing new in rap music, and it was nothing new in the black community.
Rappers are usually rapping about knowledge they think people need to get by in the world. If there's no movement that gives the idea that the knowledge people need is how to take over the system, what they see is that people need to know how to hustle; people need to know how to survive.
What the media is playing is what people want is really a false idea. Capitalism and people who control the market have a large hand in everything. It doesn't have anything to do with figuring out what the crowd wants to hear. It has to do with the media deciding what they think people want to hear.
I was a huge Della Reese fan, when Della Reese was on. I idolized all the panelists. I was in love with Kitty Carlisle. Nipsey Russell, Bill Cullen, Peggy Cass, Gene Rayburn.
Whatever I do, I hope it's quality, I hope it's something that's class.
Two women placed together makes cold weather.
I'm not intensely private - I talk a great deal about my life and my work - I just don't play the game to excess.