Energy is felt once the cards are dealt With the impact of roundhouse kicks from black belts that attack the microphone like cyclones or typhoons I represent from midnight to high noon.

I got mouths to feed, Unnecessary beef is more cows to breed.

When I was trekking across Brooklyn, looking for MC battles - and there were plenty of them - I never dreamed I'd be at this podium.

I'm on a Mission, that niggaz say is Impossible, But when I swing my swords they all choppable, I be the body dropper, the heartbeat stopper, Child educator, plus head amputator.

Hip-Hop is my vehicle to scientific and universal enlightenment

Too many songs, weak rhymes that's mad long. Make it brief son: half short, twice strong!

I was always taught my do's and don'ts: For do's I did, and for don'ts, I said I won't.

Strictly excel in what is excellence with grace

I won't hesitate to detonate, I'm short fused.

Where I come from, gettin visual is habitual...

So I don't only watch my back, I watch my front, Cause it's the niggaz who front, they be pulling stunts!

I am a religious by the heart, but an atheist by the mind.

I've given her signs! I've given her plenty of signs. What does she want me to do? Slap him across the face with my glove, and challenge him to pistols at dawn?

The moon should be colonised, I thought. Mankind should seek a happier beginning, and humans should be free to stroll hand in hand regardless of their weight and orientation.

But when you're in second grade, you don't yet know the meaning of impossible

mine, adj. Belonging to me if I can hold or seize it.

You can't have ego and gratitude at the same time.

Children or babies learn to mimic the vibration of the adults who surround them long before they learn to mimic their words.

The geniuses who conduct the motion-picture business killed glamour when they decided that what the public wanted was not dream stuff, from which movies used to be made, but realism.

I hate Illinois Nazis.

The goal is not to simulate reality right now by going crazy. The goal is to prepare for reality by going slowly