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I've been rapping since 1979.

As much as I would like to be the one who saved hip-hop culture, it's pretty much nigh-on impossible.

I'm actually a little bit more tolerant than I thought I was. I've got kids, so I do have a lot of faces.

My name ain't Steve Miller, but I fly like an Eagle.

I come from the golden age of hip hop when all the greats came on the scene.

I have seven children. Even if you got a lot of money, feeding 5, 6, 7, 8 mouths, it will do some damage to your pocket.

I know I'm just one man trying to do one thing, and the next day is not promised to any man. I'm very humble.

I perform for soldiers because they are important.

Why are we so blind to see that the only ones we hurt are you and me?

On how to make an egg roll: "Roll it nice and tight like a blunt."

I'm innocent. I've done nothing. I'm a nice guy.

I wasn't driving down the wrong side of the street, smoking marijuana, waving my gun out the window.

I can't live a normal life, I was raised by the streets.

Life is too short to not have fun; we are only here for a short time compared to the sun and the moon and all that.

Throughout my rapping career, I always cooked for myself and anyone I worked with. It's what actually kept me grounded through those crazy years.

A mind is a terrible thing to waste was the slogan, but now it's 95 and it's don't forget the Trojan.

I don't have to ask you where you've been, cause the matches in your purse say Holiday Inn.

Everything I cook tastes better than yo' momma's nipples.

We got to push to give, and one life to live.

I'm as good as anybody out there lyrically and conceptually and can go toe to toe with the best of them throughout history.

I want to provide a well-rounded perspective of life.

I think anybody can cook if they take the time.

I started cooking from watching my mom. My mother was a really, really great cook.

I'm a winner; I win most of the time. But in order to be a winner, you have to lose some of the time. I'm a terrible loser.

I was hungry a coupla' times but for the most part I ate every day ... I got to go to school for free.

Let me tell you the truth: I'm 45 years old. I never thought that I would live to see a black president.

They say I need to learn, but nobody's here to teach me. If they don't understand, how can they reach me?

I just think it's my responsibility as a human being and an entertainer to see the soldiers.

'Gangsta rap' is a derogatory label.

Because I'm a young black man driving a really nice, expensive car, I sometimes get harassed when I'm rolling through a ghetto neighbourhood.

If knowledge is power and power is knowledge, then how so many idiots be graduating from college?

I love cartoons. I'm just a big kid.

Life is full of hardships, pimp slaps, and sorrow.

Forget about Batman, Superman, and the Power Rangers, cause I'll be your hero if you're ever in some danger.

Gather up your pity and turn it to ambition.

If it wasn't for the military I probably would not have ever come to Bosnia for vacation.

We take pride in what we do.

I don't do concept records anymore - I just prefer doing good songs.

I'm 23 now, but will I live to see 24?

I finished the movie a month ago in downtown Los Angeles. I had a lot of fun doing it.

Acting is all about timing. I mean, who has better timing than the MCs?

I never let any of my sons beat me at videogames.

I've basically got an album full of singles.

I'd only do Big Brother again if you paid me three times as much money.

I'd be a fool to surrender, when I know I can be a contender. And if everyone's a contender, then everyone could be a winner.

I came to Baku the same way I would go to Texas - because they asked me to come and play hip hop.

Took flowers from a hearse, romanced a nurse. Put the girl asleep, then I went through her purse.

Take some time and educate your mind, in the long run I'm sure you're fine.

I'm the ghetto Martha Stewart, the black Rachel Ray.

People treat me nice 'cos I treat them nice.

Pixie and Dixie just did a drive by on Donald Duck, but they shot and missed and now Bugs Bunny is getting kind of pissed.