“If you had no Eazy-E, you got no N.W.A., no Dr. Dre, no Ice Cube, no Tupac Death…” — Too Short

If I'm around a bunch of people that's sad, I gotta try to make them laugh or come up with something positive out of the emotion that's making you feel negative. I'm not a negative person. I don't hang around negative people.

I read a lot and some of the things I read are blaxploitation books, things by Donald Goines or Iceberg Slim. The books are filled with a lot of street knowledge; they really recall an era.

I had eight years of a career before I even saw any fame outside of the Bay. I was famous in the Bay for eight years before that.