“I like to deal with things I heard about, ... People are always getting their house broken into around the holidays. That's when the crime rate goes up.”

“We wanted to be true to what a barbershop is, so every headline we could grab between the first 'Barbershop' and the second was in there,”

Don't want to hear my favorite rapper doin' a love song. If I want to hear something soft, I'll throw on Luther Vandross.

We come from the days when rap used to agitate the mainstream. Now it's more buddy-buddy. That doesn't sit well with me. So what we need is [a bit more] street politics, bringing up issues, agitating you a little bit. And nothing can agitate you more now than a terrorist threat.