Quotes About Reality

I think when people think of Compton, of course, they always think of gangster rap. But if you ever had an opportunity to go to Compton, you would know that Compton is a beautiful city.

Reality does get a bad rap. But I'm not concerned about it 'cause I know who I am. They can edit it, but you are in charge of what you do.

I think the sound of 'The Infamous' came naturally from our lifestyle and some of the criminal things we were doing. We always rap about what we're living, and to put a beat to lyrics like those is hard.

If you look at my rap sheet, it's very long.

Los Angeles gets a very bad rap, the perception, especially by us Brits, is 'Oh, it's so fake,' but it's the antithesis!

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.

All rappers exaggerate.

You know who we hear about all the rappers from? The bus drivers.

A lot of rappers lie about who and what they are.

Ninety percent of the general public aren't gangstas, so all of the rappers aren't going to be gangstas.

What Jazzy Jeff and rappers like him talk about is phony stuff. They're not into street raps, into telling what's really happening out there. They're talking about what the white world and the white kids can identity with.

I think hip-hop brought it on itself. When rappers got a chance to talk to the media, they would get in the interview and say, 'It's all real life.' They play these characters, and then they can't stop playing the character when they're not working.

The most popular rap artists aren't supposed to be rapping about being broke.

If you're a black kid from the streets and somebody is rapping about parents not understanding, you'd laugh at that.

Me as a person, man, I'm just rapping reality. Every time I get in front of the microphone I'm just speaking about real life and what's happening.

It's very rare that people are exactly who they appear to be.

Going to war is a rare experience in American culture, so it's easy for simple notions to gain a lot of weight. The reality is always more complex.

Mythology is a set of primitive lies that people rarely believe. This is rather different from history, which is a set of lies that people actually believe.

Things are rarely as exciting or dramatic as we make them out to be in the press.

I don't see many people as heroes and, though I love sport, I believe athletes rarely deserve that praise.

I'm a politician, and as you know, politicians are rarely very funny.

The biggest misconception people have about me is that I'm in control of every situation. I'm rarely in control of any situation.

I've rarely seen portrayals of photojournalists that seem accurate.

I passed my classes because I displayed effort, not because I learned math. But how can we help young people understand life rarely gives partial credit for effort, especially if that effort doesn't lead to understanding or success?