If you were a young kid, 19, 20 years old who has two children and a third one on the way and refuses to leave them. A kid who was on welfare, because he refused to steal anybody's property or take anybody's money. You found life a lot tougher.

Most families had four, five brothers. But because it was just me and Darryl, we had to be twice as strong.

I try to tell a story musically in a song.

In my day, we didn't have the cocaine, so we went out and knocked somebody over the head and took the money. But today, all this cocaine and crack, it doesn't give kids a chance.

The whole system of society tells you what to do.

I'll come to you with gifts of knowledge, wisdom and truth.

I woke up when I was 14 and went to speak to my mother and scared us both to death.