Now you're selling out, the devil sold a dream and you bought it without thinking about. How the beast will decrease the brain wave, with material thoughts from the crib to the grave.

I was always talking about what I could and would do, and you would always make rhymes about the competion even though we werent thinking about competition.

In the street, your mouth's a beak, big like a bird, and your future's bleak.

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.

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

I didn't know at the time that the energy that I was giving off was like a battle Emcee.

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