I'm so sick and tired of all this violence, this gun violence. And how could I speak on it - you know - being one who has advocated violence and gun violence? The only way I could do it was through a song that spoke from the heart.
You got two black folk representing us through the Sixties. One of them was for violence, one was against it, and they both are dead.
I'm no reporter. That's for the man with a suit and tie. I'm just relating to my people the best way I know, bringing them what they know and what they see out on the streets. I'm bringing it to them in a musical way, through a way of partying rather than violence. Now they can party their way through their problems.
People don't understand that you can actually lose your life going to jail. There's more violence in the jail-house than there is on the streets.
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