Identity is a prison you can never escape, but the way to redeem your past is not to run from it, but to try to understand it, and use it as a founda….

Don't ever go with the flow. Be the flow..

Don't tell me what was said about me. Tell me why they were so comfortable to say it to you..

A wise man told me don't argue with fools. Cause people from a distance can't tell who is who..

Everybody look at you strange, say you changed Like you work that hard to stay the same..

Remind yourself. Nobody built like you, you design yourself..

Be true to yourself- and keep things simple. People complicate things.

You learn more in failure than you ever do in success.

I'm not saying I'm God. But as far as lyrics, I'm God MC..

And now we're lethal, infected with D'Evils.

I think Lil Wayne is extremely talented. I think he's one of the most talented ones out there..

If you want the old me, go buy my old albums..

When I listen to great music, the first thing I wonder is what people were saying when this came out of the speakers in the studio. I want to know wh….

On the night he died - he was twenty-seven - Basquiat had been planning to see a Run-DMC show. When people asked him what his art was about, he'd hit….

I'm trying to tell the story in the most clear, concise, and truthful way, taking those everyday words and phrases and capturing them in a way that t….

So many people that I've seen can't get clean water. It's a crime..

I smoked some weed, and that's how I finished 'Izzo.'.

The day Obama got elected, the gangsta became less relevant..

I keep my enemies close/ I give 'em enough rope/ They put themselves in the air/ I just kick away the chair..

People who don't know you, you don't know their motives. They smile at you all day, "Oh, that's great. You've done it again! You're the greatest!" An….

If I was to stop making music tomorrow doesn't mean suddenly there is this gap. You don't get elected. The people decide where you are. Whether I'm h….