It's so easy for a kid to join a gang, to do drugs... we should make it that easy to be involved in football and academics.

So what if I'm smokin' weed onstage and doing what I gotta do? It's not me shooting nobody, stabbing nobody, killing nobody. It's a peaceful gesture and they have to respect that and appreciate that.

I love making music and I'm falling in love with making records, so it's like having two girlfriends. But I can handle it.

Well, hip-hop is what makes the world go around.

When I'm not longer rapping, I want to open up an ice cream parlor and call myself Scoop Dogg.

That's how we do it in the black community; we give back to the people who made us who we are. We never forget that.

If it's flipping hamburgers at McDonald's, be the best hamburger flipper in the world. Whatever it is you do you have to master your craft.