'Gangsta rap' is a derogatory label.

I don't consider myself a gangsta rapper. But I'm probably more qualified to be a gangsta rapper than people who call themselves that. I've been through that life.

And if you think about it, pretty much everything that made the twentieth century bearable was invented in a California garage: the Apple computer, the Boogie Board, and gangster rap.

Who gave it that title, gangsta rap? It's reality rap. It's about what's really going on.

I'm not a gangsta.

If the KKK was smart enough, they would've created gangsta rap because it's such a caricature of black culture and black masculinity.