"Oh Lord, help me change my ways, Show a litlle mercy on judgement day, It aint me I was raised this way, Never let em' play me for a busta, Makin' hell for a huslter."
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"There should be a class on apartheid. There should be a class on why people are hungry, but there are not. There are classes on...gym. Physical Education."
"I mean, it's not just the rappers, you know what i'm saying? People want to attack anybody that's a large figure, you know what I'm saying? They did it to [Michael] Jordan, they did it to [Mike] Tyson, they did it to Bill Cosby, you know what I'm saying? They're gonna' attack you if you on top."
"I am not a perfectionist, but still I seek perfection. I am not a great romantic, but yet I yearn 4 affection"
"For quiet times disappear listen to the ocean"
"Even as a little seed, I could see his plan for me. Stranded on welfare, another broken family."
"When we say a rapper, a rapper can say a rhyme. But an MC can rock a party."
"Me and hip-hop have a relationship that has nothing to do with no other rapper, no matter where you from or nothing. Every n*gga got his own personal relationship with hip-hop and this is mine."
"Black Mafia. If they don't understand that, they ain't gangsta. I just watched TV and Bill Parcells kissed two or three of them boys...it's a Mafia thing."
"Every time you see me I look like I hit the lotto twice."
"I remember when my schedule was as flexible as she is.. She call and tell me 'be here before the sun up', I be dressed before we hung up"
"I don't really have a gimmick or a 'thing.' I'm one of the few artists who gets to be himself every day."
"What of fame? Everybody knows your name: never again are you alone."
"I didn't introduce thug life to America. Thug life is America. I don't get why the whole world is fearing me. I am scared, but so are they. It's like I am having a panic attack cause I have 15,000 people wanting to do what I want, listing to everything I say."
"Gangsta rappers, they call them. Not nearly as gangsta as the things that inspire them.. you know, a gangsta government that we operate under."
"I think I'm a whole lot to handle. I definitely am, on every aspect. I'm the video director. I'm the graphics designer. I'm the rapper. I'm the visionary. I'm the music producer. I'm the executive producer. I'm just going to end it off to be poetic: I'm the future of music."
"I just feel like, with rappers, there's so much complacency. It's like, 'Oh, I'm a rapper. I'm successful. I make money. That's all that matters.' But there's a lot of stuff going on in the world. Whether or not you're aware of it, it's happening."
"You know the world's gone mad when the best rapper is a white guy, the best golfer is a black guy, the Swiss hold the America's Cup, France is accusing the USA of arrogance and the Germans don't want to go to war !"
"Support me... If you don't understand me don't write about me"
"I struggle to be rugged and raw dude, trying to survive in the trials and lawsuits, Everybody wants to test me, WHY ME?"