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I thought I wanted to be a lawyer and was going through this growth phase.

Law became boring, but like every job I've done, it helped prepare me for a career in music.

I always saw law as a performance, just like being on a stage.

I'm growing as an individual, but your always growing. All of my albums are snapshots of where I am artistically.

I'm mostly concentrating now on continuing to make history in Hip-Hop, making everybody proud of me, I'm not just a rapper now, I'm in history now.

I want to grow as an artist, and I'm taking a step out. I want my music to mature.

By my third year of Law and Order, I was climbing the walls. But you don't leave a hit show, especially when you have a five-year contract.

Our trials and our times of pain get the most recognition, but 'Straight Outta Compton' speaks to triumph. When it's doubtful, when nobody is on your side, when your back is against the wall, you triumph and make it through. Showing growth through movies promotes growth.

I made the decision that I was going to make rap music in, like, fourth grade, so it's been something I was saying for a long time.