Coolio
When my mother first passed away some time ago, I didn't enjoy food anymore. I just ate to live. My mother had always cooked so well that I didn't think I could follow her.Collection: Food
Life is too short to not have fun; we are only here for a short time compared to the sun and the moon and all that.Collection: Life
I'm never doing a new album. I'll probably do nothing but singles. I'm as good as anybody out there lyrically and conceptually and can go toe to toe with the best of them throughout history. But I don't know how much longer I'll be doing it. It's not really fun anymore.Collection: History
But when I really look back on my life, being really honest about it and now that I've got the chance to travel the world, seeing how a lot of little kids grow up - my life wasn't so bad.Collection: Travel
I'm still waiting for someone to call me to cater their wedding. But that's gonna cost you. If you want my cousin Jerez to play the sax, that's going to cost you a little more. The sky's the limit after that.Collection: Wedding
Let me tell you the truth: I'm 45 years old. I never thought that I would live to see a black president.
We take pride in what we do.
I think anybody can cook if they take the time.
'Gangsta rap' is a derogatory label.
I've been rapping since 1979.
I was hungry a coupla' times but for the most part I ate every day... I got to go to school for free.
I came to Baku the same way I would go to Texas - because they asked me to come and play hip hop.
I've basically got an album full of singles.
Acting is all about timing. I mean, who has better timing than the MCs?
I perform for soldiers because they are important.
I just think it's my responsibility as a human being and an entertainer to see the soldiers.
If it wasn't for the military I probably would not have ever come to Bosnia for vacation.
I finished the movie a month ago in downtown Los Angeles. I had a lot of fun doing it.
I'm innocent. I've done nothing. I'm a nice guy.
People treat me nice 'cos I treat them nice.
I never let any of my sons beat me at videogames.
I wasn't driving down the wrong side of the street, smoking marijuana, waving my gun out the window.
Because I'm a young black man driving a really nice, expensive car, I sometimes get harassed when I'm rolling through a ghetto neighbourhood.
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.
I love cartoons. I'm just a big kid.
I know I'm just one man trying to do one thing, and the next day is not promised to any man. I'm very humble.
I started cooking from watching my mom. My mother was a really, really great cook.
'Shaka' is my catchphrase. Emeril got 'bam,' I got 'Shaka.'
I have seven children. Even if you got a lot of money, feeding 5, 6, 7, 8 mouths, it will do some damage to your pocket.
Throughout my rapping career, I always cooked for myself and anyone I worked with. It's what actually kept me grounded through those crazy years.
I want to provide a well-rounded perspective of life.
As much as I would like to be the one who saved hip-hop culture, it's pretty much nigh-on impossible.
I'm a winner; I win most of the time. But in order to be a winner, you have to lose some of the time. I'm a terrible loser.
I'm actually a little bit more tolerant than I thought I was. I've got kids, so I do have a lot of faces.
I come from the golden age of hip hop when all the greats came on the scene.
I'd only do Big Brother again if you paid me three times as much money.
I don't do concept records anymore - I just prefer doing good songs.
Gather up your pity and turn it to ambition.Collection: Inspirational
They say I need to learn, but nobody's here to teach me. If they don't understand, how can they reach me?Collection: Reality
Life is full of hardships, pimp slaps, and sorrow.Collection: Pimp
I can't live a normal life, I was raised by the streets.Collection: Honesty
Why are we so blind to see that the only ones we hurt are you and me?Collection: Hurt
Everything I cook tastes better than yo' momma's nipples.Collection: Food
We got to push to give, and one life to live.Collection: Inspirational
Take some time and educate your mind, in the long run I'm sure you're fine.Collection: Education
If you've got beef, then eat a porkchopCollection: Sex
I'd be a fool to surrender, when I know I can be a contender. And if everyone's a contender, then everyone could be a winner.Collection: Inspirational
If knowledge is power and power is knowledge, then how so many idiots be graduating from college?Collection: Education
I'm 23 now, but will I live to see 24?Collection: Reality