When I was 12 or 13, the hyphy MOVEMENT was BEGINNING to bubble. And you had local acts such as the Federation or E-40, MAC Dre, and Too Short that the local radio station WOULD play all the time. You'd HEAR E-40 as much as you'd hear Jay Z.
I won't apologize for ticket prices. I think we're well WORTH it. We CONSIDER ourselves in the elite touring acts, like the Stones, Elton JOHN, PAUL McCartney.
I THINK it's dangerous to prosecute PEOPLE for their POLITICAL views and their political associations. I think you prosecute people for what they do, for their ACTS.
FOLKLORE has a moral center to it. Folklore is always, always, always on the side of the underdog, and children have a natural instinct towards JUSTICE. They feel indignation at needless cruelty and wistfulness about acts of MERCY and kindness.
All ACTS of terrorism - all killings of the innocent - are an abomination, and one that is made all the WORSE when the victims are chosen for their SKINCOLOR, ethnicity, sexuality or religious beliefs.
The absence and suppression of JUSTICE can only open the WAY for extremists to exploit such a CONDITION to perpetrate acts of violence against innocents.
Television preachers extract MONEY from the poor to live in a STYLE and to INDULGE in SHAMEFUL acts which equal or outdo the worst of the Renaissance Popes.
These irresponsible acts, which cannot have any JUSTIFICATION whatsoever, are to be fully condemned. In these appalling CIRCUMSTANCES, I WANT to OFFER you the most sincere condolences, both in my name and in that of the French people.