In my own area, Hood Canal, we are working with the USGS on dealing with this oxygenation problem.
Why is it so hard for people to believe that white people are poor?! I wouldn’t say I lived in a ghetto; I’d say I lived in the ‘hood. The same friends I had back then are the same people on tour with me now.
My agent asked if I fancied Robin Hood and I thought: ‘Yeah, why not?’ I hadn’t watched it, to be honest, but I’d seen bits and knew it was really popular Saturday family viewing with heaps of action. I thought it would be great fun. I was up for a good old play-fighting and the scripts were terrifically exciting.
Trying to please everyone can be very hard, but, like ‘Shrek’ or ‘The Simpsons,’ ‘Robin Hood’ manages to entertain adults and children at the same time, but in different ways.
If you’re a young black dude from the hood you want to come through the hood in a car that makes a lot of noise.
Today I may advocate through my art, but I’ve won my share of ‘hood fights.’ So if I ever saw one of my sisters being beaten in the street, I’d be the first one to jump in.
The greatest competitor was Bob Gibson. He worked so fast out there and he always had the hood up. He always wanted to close his own deal. He never talked to you because he was battling so hard. I sure as hell don’t miss batting against him, but I miss him in the game.
Visibility has an effect on those who are privileged; it brings more privilege, and on those who are marginalized, it brings more marginalization, because it also brings a spotlight onto them where they’re at, in the hood or in certain places that are less tolerable.
At 19 years old, when I came out of St. John’s, I was fresh out the ‘hood. I was fresh out of Queensbridge.
There’s so many versions of ‘Red Riding Hood.’ It goes back 700 years.
Sometimes you almost have to laugh to keep from crying to deal with the pain associated with the ‘hood.
A man from a primitive culture who sees an automobile might guess that it was powered by the wind or by an antelope hidden under the car, but when he opens up the hood and sees the engine he immediately realizes that it was designed.
The hood always got my back.
I always wanted to be Robin Hood or John the Baptist when I was growing up.
What saved me from the hood was Christian faith motivated by music.
They keep the song as street as it needs to be. It’s got a good catchy hook where it can do what it needs to do on the radio, but they keep the song street where it will keep credibility in the hood.
She’s like a Barbie, then she wants to be a superhero, or coming out of a spaceship and everything’s pink. She makes a certain move that’s ghetto hood mixed with a little robot so its like I’m evolving Nicki Minaj and developing her style. She’s fearless, and I love her.
If anybody ever needs to find me, I’m in the Glendale Whole Foods. I think it’s the greatest Whole Foods on the planet. There are a bunch around the country, but this one seems like it has everything. Plus, everyone is super cool, the flow is fantastic, and it’s in my hood.
