Wherever I go, I bring the culture with me, so that they can understand that it's attainable. I didn't do it any other way than through hip-hop.

I seen the worst of the worst. I deserve every blessing I receive I'm from the dirt.

It was a very intense and stressful situation. There was playing in the Johnny-pump (an opened fire hydrant) and the ice-cream man coming around and all of these games that we'd play, and suddenly it would turn just violent and there would be shootings at 12 in the afternoon on any given day.

Jealousy’s a weak emotion.

In the end, you can't censor the truth, especially when it comes packaged in hot music.

You can't turn a bad girl good, but once a good girls' gone bad, she's gone forever.

Electing a black man named Barack Obama President in the same country that elected George W. Bush - twice! - is as far-fetched as a hustler from Marcy performing at that President's inauguration. But it happened.