"The future is born, put the past in a casket"
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"Driving by my ambitions, desire higher positions, to see eternally and my mission, to be more than just a rap musician."
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"With rap music, because it's all so on the street, you get treated like a street cat: "All right, you've been eatin' enough, you're fat, get out of the way now and let somebody else come by.""
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"Rap music is just computerised crap. I listen to Top of the Pops and after three songs I feel like killing someone."
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"Screamin' 'Carpe Diem!' until I'm a Dead Poet."
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"My genes tie me to those that despised me."
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"Everybody's got opinions on the way you're livin', But see, they can't fill your shoes."
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"Be grateful for blessings, Don't ever change, keep your essence. The power is in the people and politics we address."
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"I said, 'What you wanna be?' She said, 'Alive.' It made me think for a minute, then looked in her eyes ...I coulda died."
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"If we're all saying that rap is an art form then we gotta be more responsible for our lyrics. If you see everybody dying because of what you're saying, it don't matter that you didn't make them die, it just matters that you didn't save them."
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"I pay attention to lyrics and I know what rap fans care about. I try to write for the average listener and I'm conscious of the mainstream without selling out."
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"Her life is deep, but I still dig her"
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"Guns turn you boys into pussies, sex change"
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"Be a king? Think not. Why be a king when you can be a God?"
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"Picked up the yoga, put down the soda. My healthy mind...that's what's gon' help me over. Life of a stoner (if you still concerned), I never lose, I only win or learn; It's all about your state of mind."
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"I can hear sweat trickling down your cheek Your heartbeat sound like Sasquatch feet Thundering, shaking the concrete."
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"The music becomes more pure and soulful when it's true, and it has to be true these days with the way the internet works, and the way the game works, everyone wants authentic raps."
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"The Chinamen built the railroad, the Indians saved the Pilgrim, And in return, the Pilgrim killed 'em. They call it it Thanksgiving, I call your holiday 'hell-day.'"
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"Street's disciple, my raps are trifle. I shoot slugs from my brain just like a rifle."
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"Consequence is no coincidence."
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