N.W.A. helped popularize the Raiders Starter jacket to the point that people were stealing — and in a few cases, even killing — to get their hands on one. What’s your reaction to the social cost of your success?
America is caught up in materialism. People will fight over anything. When a man comes and robs a man for a bag full of groceries, we don’t say we should ban groceries. People are always going to take things from each other. When something like that happens, I’m not like, “Aw, maybe we need to tone it down, maybe we need to wear purple and gold.” You’ve got to chalk that up to the sick materialism we’re all caught up in.