When we say a rapper, a rapper can say a rhyme. But an MC can rock a party.

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.

I believe fear of what we do not know may be the devil's best tool, meant to keep us back from those we long to approach.

Beauty is seeing, the world through colored glass, of seeing everything in its glory, it's all it ever asks.

The metaphysical poetry of our innovative life springs from the aesthetic, scenic, and systematic processes of inventiveness, the creative impulse of an active mind generating aesthetical intuition.

You must be committed to your children first. Otherwise, they will receive the leftovers.

Awkwardness is when there's a risk of a perception gap between what you mean and what you appear to mean.

Women will not talk about football unless one of them is in love with a football player, and then suddenly you discover that they know everything that is to be known about it.

Pray steal me not, I'm Mrs. Dingley's, Whose heart in this four-footed thing lies.

If you're not being rejected regularly - maybe you're not trying hard enough.

Turn off any self-talk that tells you that you are destined to live a small life. You're not.

No iron chain, or outward force of any kind, can ever compel the soul of a person to believe or to disbelieve.