When I got shot I wasn't like 'yes' I got shot, now I can say that in my raps, when I got shot I said 'ouch'.

You know the wisdom is reflected in the knowledge when it's manifested; If not fed in due time, the mind is anorexic.

Does freedom have a meaning if you're trapped in your ways?

A lot of people think that it was about Biggie on the East Coast and 2Pac on the West Coast. It wasn't like that. Big ran New York. 2Pac ran America.

You can love me or you can hate me but you can't define me.

Laugh now, cry later: this is the karma. Hip-hop never died, it's just sick of the drama.

There's people that like you and there's people that don't like you. I love it because I love the negative criticism because I always feel I have something to prove.

Everybody has to play a side because if you play both sides you a snake if you not a peacemaker.

If rhyme is a crime, my mic is my co-defendant.

You know the old saying kill him with kindness that's the way you shut me up. With a compliment, I have nothing to prove.

Half the people on the internet are bored and they have no life.

There is no such thing as an “independent artist”. All artists are essentially co-dependent of the audience.

I make the most of all that comes And the least of all that goes.

Equality and separation cannot exist in the same space.

Differences can be strength rather than a handicap.

It would require a singularly stupid man to go hang around in narrow tunnels and cramped spaces alongside a threat like that. "And I, Harry Dresden, am that man," I stated.

Momentum was part of the exhilaration and the exhaustion of the twentieth century which Coward decoded for the British but borrowed wholesale from the Americans.

I'll have an awesome blossom, EXTRA awesome.

Style is often something which locks the painter into the same vision, the same technique, the same formula during years and years, sometimes during one's whole lifetime.

It's interesting that when economic times were the hardest, that's when many people embraced liberalism.

I was devastated by the loss of my job in March, although I can understand why it occurred.