Hip-hop is a competition culture. It's based around, "My DJ is better than you. My graffiti artist is better than you."

I ain't got no beef with east coast, I think it's just being hyped up.

in the mornin' po-lice at my door Fresh adidas squeak across the bathroom floor Out the back window.. I make a escape Don't even get a chance to grab my old school tape

If you believe that I'm a cop killer, you believe David Bowie is an astronaut.

I'm a big fan of all styles, even Biggie and Wu-Tang, but I gotta do my thing.

Passion makes the world go round. Love just makes it a safer place.

A good emcee will rhyme a lot of different ways. Don't limit yourself.

...As an artist, you need the naysayers and the nonbelievers to add fuel to your creative fire.

The truth is, everybody I've ever met who's successful is a workaholic.

Real men hold themselves accountable for stuff.

Being cool is when you win, you don't get too happy; and when you lose, you don't get too mad.

There is no place so dark that light cannot lead the way.

One of life's great truths is this: when one is about to be struck by a speeding six-hundred pound Coke machine, one need worry about little else.

We pray that as you walk the paths of life you will walk in ways that are straight with the strength to conform even though those paths be narrow.

A hedge between keeps friendship green.

When I look at myself, I don't see the man I wanted to be.

Possessed of courage but devoid of morality, a superior man will make trouble while a small man will be a brigand.

I can't seem to stay out of my own way.

Even under the best of circumstances, there's just something so damn tragic about growing up.

We're all influenced by everything unless we're locked in an empty room.

Did you ever get to wondering if taxation without representation might have been cheaper?