Aja Brown Quotes

'Straight Outta Compton' was such a great movie, and obviously, I'm in the music business, so getting to see that piece of history was amazing, and it was an incredible movie.

I was a little hesitant at first because there's so many ways you can get 'Straight Outta Compton' wrong. You know, it's such a great story; it's such a classic tale. I was a little nervous 'cause it's like a very narrow road to success with that type of story - you got to get it right - but when I read it, I was pleasantly surprised.

I got Ice Cube his start. I also launched Eazy-E.

To me, the NWA is a thing of the past.

Oh, my dad listens to a lot of 2Pac, Ice Cube and WC. That's what he was listening to a lot when we were growing up. He's always been a fan of hip-hop.

I wanted to be Ice Cube when I was younger.

Dre is someone I've looked up to since 1985 when he came to my college and performed with The Wrecking Crew.

I was a Dr. Dre fan.

Compton got such a legacy in hip-hop.

I never get tired of 'It Was A Good Day' references or jokes or anything like that. It's just, you know, keeping my biggest hit alive. Nothing wrong with that.

My parents were fairly young in the city of Compton. So the things that they played - you know, that was the hip crowd. So I was being exposed to all these ideas, from Big Daddy Kane to Eazy-E to the Bay Area - Too Short, E-40 - you know, back to Marvin Gaye and the Isley Brothers.

I put Compton on the map.

Kendrick Lamar is from Compton, but his Compton and how he expresses that is completely different than NWA and Eazy-E even though they were from the same environment.

Dr. Dre's '2001' album changed modern pop music.

Those folks at Death Row were the Rolling Stones of their time.

Hip-Hop is bigger than the government.

Hip-hop is a beautiful thing. I think that the music genre itself has created more millionaires than any other music genre before it, especially in our community.

I grew up listening to a lot of Snoop Dogg and the Wu-Tang Clan. Actually, I was a huge Wu-Tang fan.

You know, Tupac is very near and dear to my heart. He started my career as an actor.

I did record 'The Chronic' in 1992. The year was not a total loss.

I've worked with Lil Wayne and Wiz, but I'd like to work with Snoop next. I love 'Paid tha Cost to Be da Boss' and 'Doggystyle' and pretty much anything he puts out. And Ice Cube - like, all the legends.

When Wu-Tang came, Wu-Tang was for that era, right there. When Dre had it in the West Coast, it was for that time. Biggie and them, it was for that time.

When Tupac came out, my writing changed for sure. I learned from it. It was a cultural thing.

Gangsta rap was the most important movement since the beginning of rock n' roll.

I've always done music with so-called thug- or gangster-type lyricists. I've always been associated with that because I'm from the West Coast.