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I'm kind of a pop culture stew, you know.

You know, I hate to sound self-involved, but I feel like I haven't peaked yet.

In theory, people would pick progression every time over being idle. But if you look at us as a culture, as a people, you would say that if you get up at five o'clock in the morning, eat your breakfast, go to work, make money, pay your bills, you're progressing, when you're still doing what's comfortable.

The thing that men and women need to do is stick together_x000D_ Progressions can't be made if we're separate forever

One step at a time, a man walked on the moon._x000D__x000D_One record got played, Kool Herc said, 'Boom!'

Satisfaction, I have the right tactics... And if you need em I got crazy prophylactics.

We got to mediate our greedy levels,_x000D__x000D_Cause the lust of currency can have us sleepin with the devil.

Ayo, shout out to Mobb Deep, the Extra P_x000D__x000D_Busta Rhymes, De La, the J Beez, so don't sleep

Back in the days when I was a teenager, Before I had status and before I had a pager, You could find The Abstract listening to hip-hop, My pops used to say, it reminded him of be-bop, I said, well daddy don't you know that things go in cycles, The way that Bobby Brown is just ampin' like Michael, It's all expected, things are for the lookin', If you got the money, Quest is for the bookin'...

So concisely, musically we are the herb_x000D__x000D_So sit back and light me._x000D__x000D_Inhale..._x000D__x000D_My style's kinda fat, reminiscent of a whale.

How far must you go to gain respect? Um..._x000D__x000D_Well, it's kind of simple: just remain your own._x000D__x000D_Or you'll be crazy sad and alone.

You never know: rain, sleet, hail, snow,_x000D__x000D_See you gotta accept that's how things go._x000D__x000D_Prepare for the rainy day, or the sun's glow,_x000D__x000D_But there's clouds movin' in and the clouds gonna blow.

We got to stay awake for all these lizards and snakes;_x000D__x000D_Some of them come as friends, some of them come as Jakes.

All we want in this life is peace, prosperity and a little paper...

I'll have you weak in the knees that you could hardly speak,_x000D__x000D_Or we could do like Uncle L and swing an ep in my Jeep.

There's divinity within because we come from the divine,_x000D__x000D_A force that's not seen, but you feel it every time:_x000D__x000D_When the wind blows, and the world turns,_x000D__x000D_And the rain drops, and the baby cries,_x000D__x000D_And the bird flies, and the ground quake,_x000D__x000D_And the stars gleam.

know the feelin, when you feelin like a villain,_x000D__x000D_You be havin good thoughts but the evils be revealin'._x000D__x000D_And the stresses of life can take you off the right path,_x000D__x000D_Jealousy and envy tends to infiltrate your staff..._x000D__x000D_We gotta hold it down so we can move on past_x000D__x000D_All adversities, so we can get through fast.

I am recognizing that the voice inside my head_x000D__x000D_Is urging me to be myself, but never follow someone else_x000D__x000D_Because opinions are like voices, we all have a different kind.

Shorty, let me tell you about my only vice:_x000D__x000D_It has to do with lots of lovin', and it ain't nuttin' nice.

Rap is not pop, if you call it that then stop...

When I watch films now, theres more of a musicality to the way the film are written.