Rapping is a vocal delivery, so you can do it without being part of hip-hop and not knowing what hip-hop is about.

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.

God, I don't love much but I love words.

In the end, it doesn't matter how much you earned, but how much you gave away with love.

You are the apple of Love’s eye.

Okay, Charlie, you can do this, all you have to do is convince a career military man that your son shouldn’t join the Army. That shouldn’t be too hard, right?

I will be Green until the day I die, if not for a long time after.

Good writing never soothes or comforts. It is no prescription, neither is it diversionary, although it can and should enchant while it explodes in the reader's face.

There are moments when troubles enter our lives and we can do nothing to avoid them. But they are there for a reason. Only when we have overcome them will we understand why they were there.

Faith is the problem. Faith is unreliable way to think about problems that will not lead to the truth.

There is a photographer in every bush, going about like a roaring lion seeking whom he may devour.

Suddenly I've had enough of all this. I've had enough of being made to feel insecure and paranoid and wondering what's going on