You better wake up before it's too late, or they'll be doing your makeup down at the coroner's place.

Following rulers instead of prophets, the wicked can rule you, but the knowledge can stop it.

In Manhattan, and its true on some level till this day; its a whole different mentality from the Bronx, Brooklyn and Queens, which I didn't know at the time - because you basically just know your neighborhood.

LL's a laughing stock, cause I bit that ass to the last stop. I watched you fall like Hitler fell, and now your down to a broken L.

Some of the free lunch programs were still goin' on - based on the last leg of the Black Panther Party.

I never ever ran from the Ku Klux Klan, and I shouldn't have to run from a black man.

My romantically favorite era is 78, 79 listening to Grandmaster Flash and the Furious 4, the live tapes, echo chamber and break beats.