If you're a conscious rap artist and you're worried about Billboard charts, you're gonna have a problem.

Educate yourself make your world view bigger, visualize wealth, and put yourself in the picture

You know, you don't see with your eyes You see with your brain And the more words your brain has The more things you can see

I am the manifestation of study, NOT the manifestation of money. Therefore, I advance through thought, NOT what's manufactured and bought.

If Hip Hop has the ability to corrupt young minds, it also has the ability to Uplift them.

Rappers spit rhymes that are mostly illegal, MC's spit rhymes to uplift their people.

I grew up in them streets, like everyone else but instead of pushin' drugs, I pushed knowledge of self

Kings lose crowns but teachers stay intelligent

Trust in God, that's where the crown is at. It's not in what you get, it's what happens after that.

Rap is something you do Hip Hop is something you live

The courage to be yourself is the essence of hip hop

Do it anyway. Fear will melt away.

A past will never die. It's always there and always present as long as your living breathing and able to remember.

Inaction in a deed of mercy becomes an action in a deadly sin.

We do not kiss. We do nothing but hold on and breathe, but still I know. I cannot go gently now. Not even for the sake of my parents, my family.Not even for Xander.

Spoilt pleasure is a sad, unseemly thing; you can only bury it.

How gracious those dews of solace that over my senses fall At the clink of the ice in the pitcher the boy brings up the hall.

But I regret not having liked history.

Nothing can help my comedy.

Letting go of the cozy stories you've been carrying around is devastating. But there's more room for new stuff after you do it.

If the idea that my safety can only be enhanced by putting other people's privacy and safety in danger, then I don't want to be more safe.