Are you tired of lyrical liars, passing fliers, Wannabe MC's, but really good triers, Tripping over mic cords, getting you bored, A total fraud, this kind of thing I can't afford!

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

You have the ability to find all the answers--if you let yourself do so.

We would like to think of death as a release from the pressures of existence, but this is a fatally mistaken thought: it is the ultimate culmination of those pressures.

Obama better understood community organisation and peer-to-peer communication than any recent candidate, and we are applying that lesson.

You will never be admired without being criticized first.

Superstition is just fantasy with attitude; it's a way of erroneously trying to control events.

The songs that you work and work and work on sometimes are just forced and not as good.

The only time I ever really consider retiring is when I get fed up with the press. Which is often.

Al Qaeda is very media-savvy and very focused on what goes on in the global media.

Well, TV series tie you up. You can't do films while you're doing a TV series.

What strange beings we are! That sitting in hell at the bottom of the dark, we're afraid of our own immortality.