If you're really a rapper, you can't stop rapping.

So from an actor's perspective, you really have no idea how you're acting.

I'm just disillusioned with the hip-hop sound right now. It's too materialistic. You know, I'm the kind of guy ... I can't do that. If you track my movement, you'll never see a picture of me with any girl that wasn't mine, or my own car. My jewelry, my clothes. What kind of gangsta rapper has a stylist? A stylist?!

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.

Some men are born to be good some born to be bad
As for me I only came with just a pen ‘n’ a pad.

[But rapper nicknames] come from anywhere, ... And You Don't Stop: 30 Years of Hip Hop.