"It's Christmas time and my rhyme's steady bumpin. Everybody happy, hair still nappy, Gonna steal a gift for my old grandpappy."
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"Sometimes I feel like rap music is almost the key to stopping racism."
"Revenge is like the sweetest joy next to gettin' pussy."
"A dollar might turn to a million and we all rich that's just how i feel"
"My whole thing is to inspire, to better people, to better myself forever in this thing that we call rap, this thing that we call hip hop."
"I hate this shallow Americanism which hopes to get rich by credit, to get knowledge by raps on midnight tables, to learn the economy of the mind by phrenology, or skill without study, or mastery without apprenticeship."
"So what if I'm smokin' weed onstage and doing what I gotta do? It's not me shooting nobody, stabbing nobody, killing nobody. It'sa peaceful gesture and they have to respect that and appreciate that."
"I mean even though we were going through our drama I would never wish death on nobody, you know what I'm sayin' Because there ain't no coming back from that"
"I said Yo Jay, I can rap. And I spit this rap that said I'm killin' ya'll *****s on this lyrical sh*t, mayonnaise colored benz, I push miracle whips."
"Cause I want to be on 106 and Park pushing a benz"
"God show me the way because the Devil trying to break me down"
"Too bad your inner sheep never forgets to follow."
"Life is a beach, and these hoes try'na lay out"
"They say a midget standing on a giant's shoulders can see much further than the giant. So I got the whole rap world on my shoulders, they trying to see further than I am."
"I don't even listen to rap. My apartment is too nice to listen to rap in."
"I'm puttin' pressure on you kids like I'm a soccer mom."
"Rhyme patterns are nothing without meanings to the words. A lot of rappers can do those flows, but the raps aren't really about anything - which is cool sometimes, but to have the flow and the message is one of my favorite things."
"You might win some, but you just lost one."
"Let bygones be bygones...but where I'm from, We buy guns and more guns, to give to the young."
"They believed you can't mix rock, country, and rap, and that crossover is dead. I always knew it would work. And it will always work as long as you're really into it and like what you're doing."