I'm not West Coast at all. I was born in Atlanta, but I grew up in Kentucky, outside of Lexington, in Winchester.

I was born in Riverside and spent my whole growing-up years in Florence, a little township on the Delaware River. I tell people that I'm from the West Coast of New Jersey.

Remember, I'm West Point, where I was born. My father went there.

Attitude is attitude, whether you're a West Coast gangster or East Coast gangster, you know?

The West coast money and the East coast money, in an ever-increasing manner, is finding its way to Chicago.

Because I first made my name as a rapper claiming South Central L.A., people often assume I'm strictly a West Coast cat. But my family was actually from back East. I was born in Newark, New Jersey, and grew up in Summit, an upscale town in north Jersey.