Brazil is not a serious country.
I'm from Detroit. I was from a kind of violent neighbourhood.
I don't need bodyguards. I'm from the South Bronx.
I'm afraid I didn't really like Caracas in Venezuela. From what I saw it seemed so crime-ridden that you really have to be on your guard all the time.
I know Chicago cops. They're tough. They have to be. The whole city would explode. It's like a bomb, Chicago.
Miami is not optimal for raising a child.
I don't like Johannesburg, where I grew up. Everybody lives in 'gated' buildings, is paranoid about crime and is always talking about being mugged. It's not a very joyful place.
I'm from Victorville - it's about an hour-and-a-half away from Los Angeles, up in the desert. They call it Victimville because it's kind of violent. It's a beautiful place, though. It's quiet.
Flint is a very tough place to live. The environment is definitely a different type of environment than anywhere else in the country, I feel like.
New York is a bit of a dangerous place to me because you often leave in a blur.
In Mexico, you're close to death all the time.
My parents were very protective of me. Hockley had some crime, so my mum didn't want me out there, and my dad was the same. I would have to be in at a certain time, as there was a lot of violence surrounding our area.
My past is not pleasant; I grew up in a very tough town, Waterbury, Connecticut. I grew up in New York, too, but Waterbury was tougher.
My advice to young people would be this: Don't move to New York. It is not where you will find yourself.
A city suffering from chronic poverty, out-of-control crime, a $76 million budget deficit and a 15 percent unemployment rate (nearly 50 percent for Oakland's youth) can hardly afford such social justice follies. But a pushover Democratic mayor and an overwhelmed police force have left what's left of gainfully employed Oakland taxpayers at the mercy of professional freeloaders and anti-capitalism saboteurs.
I like everything that is wrong about Chicago.
I tell people I live in Harlesden in north-west London, and I can see them thinking, 'Why do you live there?'
We moved to Baltimore, Maryland, in 1979, when I was five. The funny thing is that, even though Baltimore had one of the top murder rates in the country in those days, I grew up hearing about how dangerous New York was.
