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Happily Ever After: Life As A Married Rapper (From Ozone Magazine)

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Usually, the only time you hear the word “marriage” in Hip Hop is when a rapper is talking about being married to the game, married to the money, married to the music or some other non-human entity. Once every blue moon you’ll hear a rhyme about a down ass chick or a ride or die broad, but it’s rare that you’ll hear the word “wife” uttered out of a rappers’ mouth. For some reason, talking about marriage in a music that is roughly 30 years old now is still a risk.

OZONE caught up with Bun B, E-40 and Paul Wall to find out how they’ve balanced their marriages with their successful careers. Each of them are at different stages of their marriages and offer different perspectives and stories of the celebrations and challenges that have greeted them along the way.

How long have you been married?
E-40: We’ve been together 19 years. I was with her before rap. We’ve been together since the summer of 1984. We were teenagers. I played in the marching band at Franklin High School and she was at Vallejo. I always had my eye on her and vice versa and we became a couple. She was there when I was just Earl. She’s been my backbone, my rib. We were living off of love, man. We’ve been together all these years with no fall outs in between, not even a day brah.
Bun B: We are going on 8 years of marriage. We were together for 12 years. We got where I wanted to be financially so that we could get married. We wanted to have a real nice wedding without doing what most young couples do and spend all the money on the wedding and leave nothing to start off with. We wanted to celebrate doing everything the right way and set an example for our kids. We didn’t want them to grow up and be shacking up.
Paul Wall: We’ve been married for 5 years. We’d already been together for a while. Our bond together got stronger when we got married though. She was already my best friend, someone I talk to every day and don’t get tired of. When we got married, our bond just got unbreakable. We got closer.

Do you have your wife involved heavily in your career? Has it ever been an issue as far as time spent at home as opposed to being out working?
E-40: She used to come to the studio with me a lot. But when I started putting a lot of hours in and we had two sons, the kids had her occupied being a mom. I’m not trying to make it look like a perfect picture, but it was. We had hard times, I had my ups and downs before rap, you take your lumps financially, but once I got on, I felt I wasn’t gonna take my foot off the industry’s neck. That’s why I’ve been going hard all these years. But with me and her and the obstacles, she was there when I had funk in the hood. She was just down. I don’t have no complaints. She ain’t one of those materialistic broads. She’s strong. She’s a year younger than me, but we’re cut from the same cloth. We come from a good tradition; we’re from the old school.
Bun B: My wife is highly involved. A lot of the decisions I’m making at this point of my career have a lot to do with where I want her and my family to be. My wife has a good ear for things that ladies like, what women listen for in music. She is built differently from other women. She’s seen a lot of things in her time so I can talk to her about a lot of things like life and current events. She keeps me balanced.
Paul Wall: When I met her, she was a singer in Houston locally, just trying to make it on the Houston scene. She sounded really good on the Swishahouse mixtapes and she was doing stuff for Lil Keke. So she’s already creative. She’d come to the studio with me sometimes, hear a beat and come up with an idea for something. She really helped me out on a song I recorded with Trina once. Even though she wasn’t singing on it, she had good ideas for me. I’m a prude, so I try to stay away from getting too explicit. So she has to encourage me to rap a little dirty sometimes.

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Do you try to keep them near you often? Like take them on the road with you a lot?
Bun B: Sometimes it feels weird when my wife is not around. I get to go to a lot of places and do a lot of things that most people never get to do or see. So more than anything I want my wife to be around to experience those things too. I want to experience those things with someone I can talk about it with 10-15 years from now.
E-40: I just try to take her to the right shit. When I perform, I perform in some of the grittiest clubs, and the nicest arenas. I don’t want to put her in harm’s way, because we all know, this is rap music. I don’t look for trouble, but trouble can find you sometimes. I try to keep her out of the clubs, but I take her to the arenas and the nice clubs. I just try to make the best decisions so I can make sure somebody is there for my kids if something ever happens to me. If I’m on the road for 2 weeks, I’m going to fly her out, or have her on the bus with me. Or I’ll fly home on in-between down days when nothing’s going on.
Paul Wall: She comes with me a lot. She brings the kids too. Family is a big part of my life. Being away makes it hard for me. Any tour I go on, she won’t be there the whole time, but she’ll be there for portions of it.

What would you say is one of the best decisions your wife helped you make?
Bun B: If you ask her, she’ll probably say everything. (laughs) But the best decision my wife helped me make was just her being by my side. Especially when I was going through a lot of things with Pimp C being locked up. That was a lot to go through financially, spiritually and personally. She never gave up on me. I was under the impression that UGK would fall apart when Pimp got locked up; a lot of us were. I fell into a very dark place and did a lot of drinking. I wanted to sit back and feel sorry for myself. That was the turning point in my career. From that point on when I decided to not let that situation beat me and defeat me, my career took off musically and we achieved financial prosperity that we have never achieved before.
E-40: Just being there. She ain’t know what I was gonna be. All I did was write raps, but she never knocked me. My brothers always tell me that. She never knew what I was gonna be, but she was always there.
Paul Wall: I can’t think of anything specific, but I know it’s been a few occasions though. Sometimes when I get writer’s block I’ll ask her for help. Like this one time when I was doing a song for Colby O’Donis. When I got the beat, it was jamming, but I couldn’t come up with nothing. She started freestyling and some of the things she said got me going. Next thing I knew the flame was sparked and I wound up laying down two verses to the song.

Have female friends, groupies or just too many women being around ever been an issue in your relationship?
Bun B: I don’t play when it comes to respect when my wife is concerned. For a while I would tell people to just keep all women away from me. But my wife said I can’t do that because a lot of women are fans of mine. She told me I had to learn the differences between a groupie and a fan. She said, “A groupie wants to hold you and fan wants to hug you.” She said I can’t penalize fans for what groupies do. But we’ve only had 3 instances in 12 years when somebody disrespected.
Paul Wall: Not really. Even when it comes to girls in the video, she makes friends with them. Or she might pull me to the side and say, “She’s ugly. Take her out of the video.” It’s funny how she be on the set doing that. But all the women usually flock to her. Even when we in the clubs, the women always go to her. They don’t even be worrying about me. Based on what I have seen though, a lot of people like to be messy. I’m honest and faithful to my wife. If I wasn’t faithful that would be a problem. I think being faithful is a big part of the success of our relationship.

Do you think marriage will ever become more acceptable to rap about?
E-40: This game is like making movies, but people take music literally. When you rap about something, people say you ain’t doing that. Me personally, I make songs about my wife. I just did a song called “All I Need.” If you came in the game real mannish, people want to see you stay that way lyrically. I’ve got a young and old audience so I have to mix it up. At the end of my day I go home to my wife. Now I’ve said some slick crazy shit in my songs, but my wife knows that I come home to her. She knows this is just my occupation.
Paul Wall: It’s entertainment, so I don’t know. It’s like a secret society. Once I got married, I started noticing that a lot of other people in the industry were married too. Before I was married, I didn’t know that a lot of my friends were married. They introduce me to their wives now. I guess people are protective of their personal lives.
Bun B: People tend to not focus on marriage and family in Hip Hop. Male artists who have a lot of female fans have images to uphold. When they say they’re married, that kinda puts a block between them and the fan. You still want them to scream for you. But that’s just not in Hip Hop, that’s the entertainment industry period. Look at how Usher’s career was affected. Women didn’t feel they could have him anymore.

Do any of you have advice for other rappers thinking about getting married, or even rappers who are married and might not be enjoying it?
E-40: If you find a good one, you probably want to stick with her. It’s not about glamour. You want somebody who’s gonna be there for you. Everybody’s got a main squeeze. If you find a good woman and she’s in your heart, stick with her. Don’t get caught up in all this industry shit, man. Find a down to earth female. Different strokes for different folks, but my advice is if you find a good one keep her.
Bun B: I get calls from younger rappers making the transition. I’ve talked to Wale, Dizzie Rascal and I talk to ESG and Paul Wall on the regular. All I have to tell you is don’t do it unless you are sure. Don’t get married out of convenience, that’s the last thing you want to do. There’s nothing worse than being an unsure married person.
Paul Wall: Keeping your faith in God is a big part of it. I would encourage people not to do it if you’re not ready. Some people do it too soon, and some wait too long. If you think it’s meant to be, do it. But the biggest part of it is being faithful. If you are unfaithful, it makes it hard and it makes [your spouse] very insecure. //

Words by Maurice G. Garland

via ozonemag.com

DJ COTTON MIXTAPE: Kusch Melodics Vol. 1 (Music Makes Me High)

DJ Cotton presents - Kusch Melodics Vol. 1 (Music Make Me High)

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  1. TRU - Smokin Green
  2. Gangsta Pat - I Wanna Smoke
  3. Bun B ft Pimp C, Z-Ro & Jay-Z - Get Throwed
  4. Snoop Doggy Dogg - G'z Up H**s Down
  5. Luniz - I Got 5 On It
  6. Da Brat ft Krayzie Bone - Let's Get High
  7. Devin The Dude ft Scarface - Sticky Green
  8. Ghetto Mafia - In Decatur
  9. Lil Wayne & Juelz Santana - Birds Fly High
  10. Redman & Method Man - Dis Iz 4 All My Smokers
  11. Scarface - Mary Jane
  12. Slim Thug - Miss Mary
  13. D'Angelo - Brown Sugar
  14. Lil Wayne & T-Streets - Love Of My Life freestyle
  15. Mystikal - Still Smokin
  16. Christion - Full Of Smoke
  17. UGK - Hi Life
  18. Makaveli ft Bad Azz - Krazy
  19. Lil Boosie ft Webbie - Smokin On Purple
  20. Memphis Bleek ft Beanie Sigel & Jay-Z - Hypnotic
  21. Jay-Z - Feelin It

DOWNLOAD LINK: http://www.sharebeast.com/h3ef3aj34tkq

No I do not smoke or drink and never have.  This is just a mix I made for my homegirl.  I actually use it to go to sleep with lol.

MIXTAPE: LRG Presents Bun B - No Mixtape


1. Intro
2. On To The Next Year
3. Stupid Trill
4. Trill OG
5. 2 Damn Trill
6. Trill Gladiator Snippet
7. No Mixtape
8. Transform Ya
9. One King
10. Don’t Say Shit
11. Countin’ Money
12. I Went In
13. Adrenaline Rush
14. (2) Dope Boyz
15. Coocoo
16. Greatest of All Time
17. Mr. Hit That Lick
18. Press Play
19. Big Dick Chaney
20. I Am
21. I Got Cake Ft. Pimp C
22. Play Clothes
23. Bag Music
24. I Made It
25. The Champion
26. Put It Down
27. Outro
Bonus: Pants On The Ground

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INTERVIEW: Bun B - "There Are No Rich Rappers"

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http://allhiphop.com/stories/features/archive/2008/02/25/19311891.aspx

By Chuck "Jigsaw” Creeekmur

Pimp C does not define Bun B, but the tragic death of latter’s
volatile, longtime rap partner has been a cornerstone of the
mainstream attention directed to UGK. Long one of Hip-Hop’s staples,
when half of the group departed, it was far more than a daily headline
to Bun and legions of fans.

According to medical reports, UGK co-founder Pimp C died suddenly due
to an accidental, yet lethal combination of prescription cough
medicine and a pre-existing sleep apnea condition at a Hollywood hotel
in late December 2007. In the weeks and subsequent months after the
rapper’s death, his partner Bernard “Bun B” Freeman forged ahead with
grace not typically characterized by a Hip-Hop artist. “It was sad,
but its definitely a real thing living in Houston, TX,” Bun frankly
told a local Texas newscaster. “Being a person that affiliates with
the common man, we know that in Houston, TX we have a problem now with
the cough syrup epidemic. And, while it wasn’t solely the cause of his
death, we have to be very real about its consequences.

Bun B kept Pimp C’s name alive ("Free Pimp C!") when his friend was
incarcerated for four years and will continue to do so here on. There
is a catch. Bernard Freeman – the man – is an unstoppable force in
Hip-Hop and he's not likely to be confined to the memory of Pimp C.
The Port Arthur, TX native is his own person with a viable career to
look forward to.

The Southern rap impresario has a new album called 2 Trill on the
horizon, which highlights some of his most personal work to date. With
AllHipHop, Bun is slightly tentative when talking about Pimp, but he
offers insight into his feelings. On the other side, some so-called
one-hit wonders find a friend in one Bernard Freeman, a voice of
reason in an unfair world.


AllHipHop.com: What you up to these days, I heard about a new album
and stuff like that, can you speak on that?

Bun-B: Yeah, well the new album was pretty much done, y’know at the
time of Pimp’s passing. We had the single ready to go. We had three
songs to pick from to be the single, trying to pick one and then go
ahead and get it pressed up. And we was gon’ try to move on the top of
the year but of course all things considered — we had to really pump
the brakes on everything. I had to really reanalyze everything, to
figure out exactly how we was going to move forward.

AllHipHop.com: Did you ever feel discouraged from moving forward?

Bun-B: Yeah, of course initially. It was always the notion in my head,
Would I even want to do this anymore? If I did decide I still would
want to do it – how, when that initially happened. That s**t still
weighs heavily on my mind. I’m still trying to put together the words
to do my man justice – as far as writing and recording a record about
my dude. It’s pretty hard to do. I ended up going back and just doing
some remix stuff with some people, and [that’s] really a lot easier to
do it on someone else’s project and say R.I.P than open up about what
my dude meant to me and all of that. I need to make that song for
closure and also because the fans, they need to know. I really don’t
care what people expect to hear from me, but I feel I need to do it
for my real (true) n****s, it’s something they need to hear.

AllHipHop.com: How has your outlook on life changed, if at all?

Bun-B: Life is fully precious to me don’t get it twisted. I always
have respect for life and people but, I really have just taken my life
and family more into perspective — just making sure that (not just
financially) emotionally from a life perspective. Which you really
can’t prepare people for this kind of thing, but I really want people
know how I feel about them. All my homies and close family, it’s very
important to know how you feel. And I come from a really, really big
family, I got hundreds of cousins not just a hundred cousins,
literally hundreds of cousins. So for me it’s really about getting
back and making connections with people that love me and people I know
I love.

AllHipHop.com: Initially people thought drugs; some thought he was
murdered, that was the initial assumption.

Bun-B: That because he was a rapper and he was a young black male,
and that’s kind of what happens to us. Which is unfortunate in it
itself, but when you lose a loved one, as far as general people are
concerned, they may look at it a certain way but when it is the person
you loved it doesn’t make it easier knowing exactly how they died. If
they’re murdered then you definitely want the person to pay for it.
But when they [are] brought to justice one way or another – you can’t
necessarily say your pain is lifted.

CC: Is it true there is a Pimp C sneaker?

Bun-B: Yeah, my man (Reggie Simmons) from Jordan brand made me some
R.I.P Pimp C sneakers. He actually made two pair, I got one and his
oldest son has the other pair.

AllHipHop.com: How is the family holding up?

Bun-B: It’s rough. The younger kids are dealing with it in a certain
way, and his oldest son is dealing with it in his own way. But it’s
rough on the kids and it’s rough on the mothers of those children.
It’s definitely rough on his mother. It’s extremely rough for his wife
right now. She is trying very hard to keep her head up and do the
right thing, do right by her husband and his legacy but it’s extremely
hard for her right now.

AllHipHop.com: Are there any plans for anything to put in place for his legacy.

Bun-B: We had recently—like a week and a half before he passed—we got
inducted into the Port Arthur Music Hall of Fame, and that’s going to
have a nice setup for us. The city, the mayor at the funeral, they
were talking about giving him a street and I’m pushing for his
birthday to become a local holiday. I don’t know if it’s going to be
anywhere else but in Port Arthur, where we’re from. I would like for
his birthday to be Pimp C day, so that people wouldn’t forget and so
people will always be able to celebrate

AllHipHop.com: Is it true that Pimp C or both of you were going to
start a female version of UGK called Underground Queens?

Bun-B: He hadn’t talked to me about anything like that. He may have
been doing something….Pimp was a man of many ideas and many dreams. He
had a lot of things that he wanted to do, he had a lot of things he
was trying to materialize. He had his hands in a lot of pots and that
very well could have been one of them. I couldn’t keep up with all the
things he was trying to do, he would come up with two or three things
a day.

AllHipHop.com: One thing we found interesting, at the funeral it
appeared that the feds or some police agency was there taking
pictures. Were you aware of that?

Bun-B: Oh yeah, they weren’t being bashful or trying to hide it in any
sense. We were very aware. They apparently were positioned to take
people to their rightful places and walk out from different places…

AllHipHop.com: What do you think their purpose was there?

Bun–B: I couldn’t really tell you… but I don’t know what they expected
to see. I keep asking people I don’t know what they think we were
going to do some kind of drug deal – or something like that, at the
funeral? I don’t understand what it was; I didn’t know it was a crime
to care about Pimp C. If so then label me, guilty.

AllHipHop.com: Is there anything to be learned for Pimp C dying?

Bun-B: Absolutely, make sure you are living you life for yourself,
regardless of whatever the circumstances were going to be, Pimp C made
sure he did everything that he wanted to do, he lived his life for
himself, [not] for the TV or the radio or for whoever is looking at
it.

Make sure that whatever you do, you’re doing what you want to do so at
the end of the day you’ll have no regrets about how your life went
because you choose to do what this man said or that man said. Pimp C
followed his own drum; I’m not saying that you couldn’t talk to him
about anything, or give him advice, or that he wouldn’t listen to what
people say but at the end of the day, he was gon’ do what he felt in
his heart, he needed to do. It’s important that people understand
that. At the end of the day, listen to yourself. Take your own advice;
don’t listen to what people have to say. Take in constructive
criticism but at the end of the day make sure your living your life
for yourself.

AllHipHop.com: Are there any other recordings of him, is it possible
to get another UGK album?

Bun-B: There is another UGK album we’re getting ready to start putting
it together now and we can figure out the best way to market and
present it to the public – to make sure it does him respect and does
him honor. There is music left, and we have to path a plan to give
the fans another album. We was gonna give the fans more than one more
album. He was working on his next solo and I was working on mine, but
we had already planned to drop another UGK album this fall, and
already recorded music toward it.

AllHipHop.com: Recently in the music industry we’ve seen a shift to
digital in major way. Do you have any thoughts on how you’re perceived
in your career? Keeping in mind that digital downloads are becoming
more and more important to the bottom line.

Bun-B: Luckily, I come from generations of music fans that have to
have their CDs, I make car music. I make music that people have to
play in a car. Even though my fans definitely listen to my music on
iPods and Zune players and iPhones and all these different other
outlet, at the end of the day most of my UGK fans, they’re hood
people, they’re car people. They’re playing their music in their car,
they usually keep all their music in their CD case. And then they
coordinate what’s where by the cover art. I make music with bass it in
for people with cars and speakers that can play my s**t.

Now that being said I do have fans in the younger generation. I know
because they run up on me all the time. I know all of them ain’t
buying my CD although they will run up with the CD. Hopefully they’re
buying my music from the Zune market place or the iTunes music store
or whatever, amazon.com, rhapsody or whatever outlet is selling my
music online. But the reality is they’re probably downloading it on
Limewire or on a zip-file or something. And I’m cool with that because
– anybody that tells you they’ve never downloaded something is a lie,
their just a bold-face lie; besides n***s in the hood that don’t f**k
with computers period. But even still, n****s in the hood find a way
to buy bootleg movies, n****s is lying if they say any different. At
the end of the day it’s almost like you reaping what you sew.
Everybody wants to benefit from the s**t when its time for them to get
something, but everybody want to get mad when n****s get they s**t.
It’s just time to be real about that s**t, y’ know?


AllHipHop.com: I get what are you saying.

I see a lot of people talk about ringtone rappers. I can’t remember
anybody making music that didn’t want everybody to hear it. I can’t
for the life of me see somebody spending all that money in the studio,
all that elbow grease to get out in the world and yet they only want
50 m’f***as to hear it. That’s ignorant. I never believed that s**t.
When n****s talk about they don’t like ringtone rappers, this and
that, that’s ignorant. You would love to be a ringtone rapper. No you
wont do what they’re doing probably –you probably won’t compromise
yourself, but you would love for 5000 m’f***as to like what you doing.
You would love for a million people to go out and buy your s**t. Okay
fine you don’t dance, that’s cool. But don’t just diss n****s that do
because they eating, and you ain’t.

AllHipHop.com: You gotta admit, but in particularly in ’07, we saw a
lot more one-hit-wonders than we have ever seen before.

Bun-B: No we haven’t. That’s a bulls**t argument. You can pick any
year in rap, and I can pick 20 n****s that ain’t here today. I don’t
care what kind of music they make. I grew up loving Lakim Shabazz, I
grew up loving Poor Righteous Teachers, but n****s will have the nerve
to call them one-hit-wonders because they’re not around no more. Be
careful the terminology you associate with people. The reality is
people like Soulja Boy ain’t no one hit wonder, because he had two hit
records that broke 5,000 bds. I understand people don’t like some of
this music and believe me I’m not here to defend Soulja Boy…I’m
defending the music. There is no difference between the argument. I
said it before and I want to say it again, you got to be real with
yourself. Every time you listen to music and you say that’s noise,
it’s no difference than the s**t our parents told us about what we
listened to. When you and I were young we sat in the room listening to
Public Enemy, trying to enlighten ourselves about the black culture —
and our parents would come in the room and tell us to cut that s**t
off, it was noise. Because they didn’t understand it.

I’m not saying there is some big super-hidden sociological impact to
be discerned from Soulja Boy. He’s just doing his thing, he’s sixteen
what the f**k else you got to talk about at 16 when you ain’t growing
up in super poverty with guns in your hand. What else you gon’ talk
about? Some people seem like they would rather Soulja Boy been a
gangster. Is that what we really want from a sixteen year old MC? At
the end of the day we ain’t making s**t four and five year old kids
can listen to. Ifyou look at the charts, you can see what our kids are
listening to, Hannah Montana. I’ve got no problem with that. To me it
just looks like you don’t like somebody making money. There’s no way
Soulja Boy is taking money out of quality pockets, those people
weren’t gonna buy quality in the first place.

AllHipHop.com: So there’s nothing wrong with Hip-Hop at all now?

Bun-B: I’m not saying there’s nothing wrong with Hip-Hop, there is
always going to be something wrong with the state Hip-Hop. It’s always
fluctuating, there’s always something that doesn’t fit the status quo.
But there was no perfect year for Hip-Hop. At the same time we was
celebrating something somebody else felt like they were left out.
I know because I felt like that certain years. From 2004 to 2005, the
years that Houston was on top, when we was celebrating, a lot of
n****s felt left out. From 2000 to 2004 when Atlanta was ballin,’ and
they’re still ballin’ to a certain degree, n****s felt left out.
That’s just how I felt [from] ‘87 through ‘91, that’s how I felt from
‘93 to ‘97 — I felt left out. You got to be careful to not look
bitter.

“I’m a rapper right now and my money is f***ed up,” but I can’t get
mad at n****s that’s eating. I got to figure out what they’re doing
that’s making them eat so well. I got to figure out if there is any
way at all to bring some one to what I’m doing. And if it’s not, then
I gotta figure out a different hustle, in terms of what I’m doing
inside of my cycle.

AllHipHop.com: What do you think you will do? Like right now it is
big time for rappers to leverage their celebrity into other things.
You see Jay-Z, every week he’s doing something new.

Bun-B: First let me say this, because I am really trying to impress
this upon the young people, and I don’t know how young the average
person that reads Allhiphop.com is but I do know the majority of them
want to be in the music industry at some point. Let me make this very
clear, there are no rich rappers. Let me say that again, there are no
rich rappers.

There are rappers who have gotten rich through other entities. When
you look at Jay-Z, Jay-Z is not rich through Roc-A-Fella Records,
Jay-Z is rich through Roc-A-Wear clothing. Puff Daddy is not rich
through Bad Boy Records, Puff Daddy is rich through Sean John
Clothing. 50 Cent is not rich through G-Unit Records, even though all
these people made good money, I’m not saying these people didn’t make
millions on music, I’m saying 50 Cent got rich through G-Unit Clothing
and Vitamin Water. You have to put a slash after your title right now,
because the s**t don’t pay like that. Even when it paid like that, it
ain’t pay like that, now it don’t pay like that. You got like three
n****s that’s getting good checks right now, and them n****s trying to
get out of rap. They trying to do movies and s**t. What does that tell
you? I feel bad because there’s a hundred times the number of kids
that want this dream than when I wanted this dream because of the way
television has sold this dream.

AllHipHop.com: There has to be a place to draw the line though.

I feel bad for n****s because, I be wanting to tell n****s don’t get
in the game. But I can’t tell a n***a not to chase his dream; I don’t
want to seem like a dream crusher. But Ihate to see these n***s with
no sense of reality. It’s almost like they throwing their [money] away
for something that ain’t really there, that s**t is a façade.
Them n****s never gave themselves another out, I tell them 30 year old
n****s now, if you haven’t smoked that part of your brain yet, n***a
get your ass in school. It’s n****s that don’t get a promotion until
they’re 44. I look at n****s getting nominated for the Oscars in their
50’s. [But], I cant tell a 30 year old n****a not to chase his dream.