It looked like our Chicago. The house [that Miss Helen (Angela Bassett)] was staying at, that looked like a building that I would know. Under the train station, I recognized that spot. He got the right look.

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He got a few things right, like that there is a lot of killing going on in Chicago. I know a couple of my homies, they don't want no jobs. Maybe a couple of odd jobs. I offered some of my homies to come with me sometimes, and they don't want to do that. They'd rather sit on a corner. That's all they know. Really it's the young kids who are doing all the killing, and they don't want no jobs. Their momma got Section 8, they got they food stamps, they good—they got nothing to worry about. They just worry about their own little reputation, how they can be cool. And the cool thing to do is kill somebody.

He hit it right on the head [with the opening scene, when a shooting breaks up Nick Cannon’s character Chi-Raq’s concert]. When we go to our shows in Chicago, we come kind of deep and we bring some guns with us, because stuff like that can happen. They just portraying what's really going on. I don't feel no type of way about it, that's just how it is. I'm not proud of it. I think people need to see it, because I think something needs to be done with the city.

[When Father Mike Corridan (John Cusak) calls the local news an “urban reality show” during his sermon for a little girl who was killed by a stray bullet,] he hit it right on. When I do shows and stuff like that, I see a lot of white people. Different people, different kind of people from all races, people that you know don't know anything about [where we're from], they just be jumping around yelling, "Gang! Gang! Gang! Squad! Squad! Squad!" [Laughs] I think they do look at it like a TV show.