"You know, I say in my lyrics, "Every word I write will be analyzed by somebody white." It's just that I know that this sh*t is just not gonna fall on deaf ears."
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"Before rap came along, I was, actually, actively in the streets; getting in trouble, doing the wrong thing."
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"I'm very much against the anonymity of bloggers and social media. I just hate it and I think it's really cowardly."
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"That's basically the gangster code. Just be yourself. Just be you, dog. The easiest way to get your card plucked around a gangster is to be a fake. If we feel like you're trying too hard, if you're trying to act like you're from the street, you're in trouble."
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"My mother passed when I was in the third grade, my father when I was in the seventh, and that's when I was shipped to Los Angeles to live with an aunt."
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"I'm not going to allow anybody to hold a badge up over me or a cross or any other power symbol and say I'm going to kill you and you're just going to kneel down to me because I'm the law."
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"When I was younger I never drank. I never drank, I never did any weed or drugs or anything because I felt it would compromise my position. I was an orphan, and I had a feeling like if I ever hit the ground I may never get back up."
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"I'd say people are victims of circumstances and they're limited to the opportunities that they see. Even though there might be more opportunities, you might not see them. You might just think, "I don't have any options." You usually go to the dark side, in that situation."
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"I think men, growing up, you have to go through some form of hardship. You've got to harden the metal."
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"I have to take what I say and make it heavy, so every single bar means something. And there's no riddles in my rhymes. Every single word means something."
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"There's a point where a cop pulls you out of that car and starts abusing you or beating on you and at that moment he is no longer within the law."
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"I hate to get on the racial thing because that's something I've always been totally against. But the problem with the media is that they think that the word rock means white and the word rap means black."
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"I like crime movies where the crime is so incredible that, attractive as it seems, you don't wanna do it because it's just too dangerous."
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"Being happily married, I’m more focused on what I’m doing. Ya know, one of my quotes is ‘love isn’t looking somebody in the eyes; it’s looking out in the same direction."
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"It really really sunk into me when I went to Europe and they take rap so much more serious than we do here. That was the first time I ever heard rap considered folk music. And sometimes somebody will make you understand like, "Hey, what you doin' is serious, don't play it lightly 'cause it's changin' my life.""
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"If you get into crime you gotta know that everybody's a criminal and everybody's a liar, and everybody has the potential to backstab you, because it's not an honest profession. So don't go into crime and look for honesty."
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"Winners have to absorb losses."
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"I never know if the person I'm shaking hands with is coming to kill me. That's something you have to live with when you cross the lines."
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"I'm on the front line and I am a rapper."
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"Redemption means you just make a change in your life and you try to do right, versus what you were doing, which was wrong. So I think a lot of people get hooked on drugs and when they get over that addiction they go out and they try to talk to kids and they try to work in rehab centers."
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