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“I used to love Talking Heads, Peter Gabriel, and the Human League.”

“When I was 20, I was the hustler - rubbing my temples, stressed, trying to get out the streets, trying to take my life to another side of the game with something I really loved to do: rap music.”

“When I had my house in '96, I had a Warriors basketball court built.”

“There's always a message in my music, you just gotta be able to just sit there and be open-minded.”

“I feel like I'm a voice of hope.”

“I love gospel music, I love gangsta music.”

“Music is really a medicine, it can make you feel good.”

“You feel me' - that's straight from me. You can put a stamp on that.”

“The West ain't been the same without 'Pac.”

“I don't just talk about jewelry and cars and houses and belittling those that don't have that. I'm a democrat. I speak for the democrats. I speak for the soil.”

“The earliest music I remember hearing is Al Green's 'Let's Stay Together.' That was when my momma and my daddy were together, before they went their separate ways.”

“I really started from grassroots, without a handout or anything.”

“I will rap circles around anybody.”

“I think the whole world has been able to utilize the Internet. I feel like you don't have to be from a certain soil.”

“I'm not boasting or nothing but a lot of people have a lot of love for me. I'm a legend, but I stay H and H, hungry and humble.”

“I'm a corporate thug. That's the best way to be.”

“I didn't invent the word 'hyphy' and I'm not trying to say I'm the king of hyphy.”

“I would like to work with Dr. Dre.”

“I'm the most humblest guy you can ever talk to or meet.”

“I had a song back in 1992 talking about 'It's all good.' Then my partner Theo who used to work for 92.3 The Beat in L.A. started saying 'You know it's all good' on the radio and everybody took it back to their soils like that was the new Cali word. But that's a regular word form the Bay Area.”