"I did 'Are We There Yet?' because I wanted to do a movie for my fans' kids. Black kids don't really see movies on this budget for them, starring them. And there's so many white kids that love that movie."

"It never gets old. Working with somebody like Kevin Hart is rejuvenating in a lot of ways. He's such a pro. He's so good."

"My worst ever car was a green Datsun B210, back when they called it 'Datsun' - now it's 'Nissan.' Very unsexy, unattractive. Girls hated the car. I was embarrassed to even be in it... but it was my transportation."

"When people see the Cubevision logo, they should know it's something good, something worth checking out."

"I go light on breakfast. Sometimes it's a yogurt, but a lot of times it's leftovers from one of my wife's dinners."

"I'm not the type of actor who is trying to do a whole bunch of different stuff, you know what I mean?"

"Can't step from one movie set to the next. Only Samuel L. Jackson can do that. All us mere mortals can't do that!"

"I'm not really into the political game as far as paying politicians and stuff like that, I'm not into that. You do your job, and I'll do mine."

"Obama reminds me of the black kid at a white school that don't nobody want to play with."

"Some people have a taboo about doing advertising in the States. You know, where they kind of make their bread and butter. But to me, that's crazy."

"When I was in N.W.A. and didn't get paid all the money I was owed, that's when the business side of showbiz hit me."

"Music has done a lot to enhance the emotions of sports. It's played in arenas. Whenever there is footage cut together they're always using music. And it goes together, you know."

"I been all around the world and I haven't found a city that I'd rather be from or rather come back to than Los Angeles."

"There's a lot of talent in South Central L.A., in Compton and Long Beach and Watts, and the city north of Pico pretty much sits back and waits for that talent to emerge and then steps in."

"Sports without music is just a game. Music makes it entertaining."

"Don't get a movie confused with real life. I'm a well-rounded human being like everyone else."

"My son Darrel could recite 'Straight Outta Compton' at two years old. He loved it! You can expose your kids to anything as long as you sit there and explain it to them."

"My son, O'Shea. He looks like me, and he can rhyme."

"I wake up at 5:30, 6 in the morning, but don't head into the office right away. I like to hang out with my wife, talk about things, get some coffee, you know."

"Young people are dying for no reason all over the world that don't know why. It's ugly, everywhere."

"Snoop Dog is the Phil Jackson of youth football coaches. He ain't going to accept nothing but a winner."

"I'm just an entertainer, man. I don't like to pigeonhole myself to anything. I love to do it all."

"I'm a B-boy at heart. I still like rhyming. It's just the radio game is like Chinese arithmetic. It's hard to know what nuts to crack. But I still love music, been dropping music. Never stopped, really."

"Sometimes when you're relegated to your neighborhood, you forget that there's more important things than your neighborhood going on out in the world."

"Our records, if you have a dark sense of humor, were funny, but our records weren't about comedy. They were about protests, fantasy, confrontation and all that."

"Ice Cube is the piece of me that I give away to the public."

"I was ready to get out of the box and play something a little different than what everybody has seen."

"I've got a basketball signed by all the greats from Julius Irving to Oscar Robinson. It was at an All Star game I got them all to sign it. So that ain't going nowhere. I'm going to die with that in my casket."

"I never get tired of 'It Was A Good Day' references or jokes or anything like that. It's just, you know, keeping my biggest hit alive. Nothing wrong with that."

"The silver and black may have another home, but the Raiders will always belong to the people of Los Angeles."

"I'm not actually from Compton - I'm from South Central Los Angeles, and my father still lives in the same house I grew up in, so I'm there all the time."

"You like a woman, "she"'s got kids, it's a package. You can't just go in one-sided."

"I am only 33, I've got a lot to do. This is the first half of my career. I'm looking forward to the future and I'm proud about the past."

"My thing is, I know kids cuss, they do their thing, but I tell my kids, 'Don't do it in earshot of any adults, or you're in trouble.'"

"When I did 'Boyz N The Hood', I never thought how we grew up in South Central was interesting enough for a movie."

"We're in this entertainment business really to give the audience what they want."

"Rap is just somebody getting something off his chest. That's all it is."

"South Central is just who I am. Even though I have a nice house, nice family, the rest of my generation is still in South Central L.A. My cousins, my brothers, my sisters, they don't wanna move out."

"I really appreciate family. I really can't imagine life without them!"

"Rap is always evolving. It's easy for the old school to hate the new school, but it's a music that got a little stifled I think, by the Internet a little bit."

"Early in my career, people wanted to hear music about protest, about trying to change things."

"The best thing I've done with my money is buy a house for my family. You wake up to a house you love and you feel like somebody."

"For me rappers and dancers are poets and artists and often times the most interesting performances are given by them."

"I still enjoy doing music. I'm not going to stop doing it, and doing it the way that I feel it should be done."

"South Central is just who I am."

"I love any time you can enlighten people to mistakes, that's how I started my career."

"I don't get nothing but love. In every ghetto all over the world. Nothing but love. They respect that I came outta there and I'm doing it the right way. You can't do nothing but respect that."

"I definitely support cop acting more than cops, but all of them ain't bad, just some of them."

"I have a lot of milestones that I'm proud of when it comes to music, 'Amerikkka's Most Wanted,' I'm extremely proud of that. Just because of what I had to go through to get that music produced, that album produced."

"I remember wishing there was snow in L.A. And how jealous we used to get of those Christmas specials with kids playing in the snow."