American - Musician | September 7, 1963 - March 26, 1995
I put Compton on the map.
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If we could, we'd change a lot of things. But the only thing that's going to really change things is money and time. And time might just make it worse, too.
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I bet there ain't anybody in South Africa wearing a button saying 'Free Compton' or 'California.' They don't give a damn about us, so why should we give a damn about them?
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Movies don't make people act a fool. People act a fool because they want to act a fool.
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Why do you think the fans like us - why they prefer our street raps over all that phony stuff out there? Because we're telling the real story of what it's like living in places like Compton. We're giving them reality. We're like reporters. We give them the truth.
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Compton is my city.
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People where we come from hear so many lies that the truth stands out like a sore thumb.
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I go to correctional facilities and talk to kids there. They have little kids in there who are, like, 12 years old, stealing cars and stuff like that.
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I have seven children by six different mothers. Maybe success was too good to me.
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I'm not a registered Republican or Democrat. I don't even vote.
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I don't want to be in somebody else's movie, and then they make all the money. I've gotten offers to do the movies, but I won't sell myself short and be in somebody else's movie, like 'Boyz N the Hood.' I don't think I woulda done that.
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What the cops did to Rodney King was wrong, and the officers who beat him should be sent straight to prison.
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