When we started Aftermath, we had something like 20 artists, and it was driving me crazy. I couldn't sit down and focus on any of it. Plus, it was doubly hard because you ended up crushing these people's dreams when you had to let them go.
You got to realise that when I was 20 years old, I had a house, a Mercedes, a Corvette and a million dollars in the bank before I could buy alcohol legally.
In L.A., we listen to everything. If it's banging, it's banging - we don't care where it's from.
I've looked at pictures that my mom has of me, from when I was four years old at the turntable. I'm there, reaching up to play the records. I feel like I was bred to do what I do. I've been into music, and listening to music and critiquing it, my whole life.
I get butterflies every time a record comes out. I'm like, 'I hope people like it. I hope people buy it.'
It's always been difficult to make a good record. To be perfectly honest with you, it's really about the person that's pushing the buttons. No matter what type of equipment you have, you still have to have a certain talent to be able to make a good record.
I did record 'The Chronic' in 1992. The year was not a total loss.
I've gotten my personal life all the way intact and made sure that it's straight. Without that, you have no foundation. Your building is going to crumble.
I got Ice Cube his start. I also launched Eazy-E.
I had between 20 and 40 songs for 'Detox,' and I just couldn't feel it. Usually, I can hear the sequence of an album as I'm going, but I wasn't able to do that. I wasn't feeling it in my gut.
The reason 'Detox' didn't come out was because I didn't like it.
You just have to find that thing that's special about you that distinguishes you from all the others, and through true talent, hard work, and passion, anything can happen.
I'm not no egotistical person. I just want what I'm supposed to get. Not a penny more, not a penny less.
Eminem is just incredible. That's the word that comes to mind: 'incredible.'
The race factor was just a minuscule part of what I was doing with Eminem. It was really about the music and how well we worked together.
One of the first people that believed in me, the first person to invest in my talent, me and this guy used to argue all the time in the studio, but at the end of the day, we both realized that we were after the same goal, and that was to make great music. And I'm talking about Eazy-E.
It's always been difficult to make a good record.
No matter what type of equipment you have, you still have to have a certain talent to be able to make a good record.
Black women are the strongest most hardworking people on earth.
I would go to sleep with headphones on. My mom and pop - they would have music loud enough to shake the walls.
