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

A lot of the old-school artists didn’t even respect what’s being called freestyle now... any emcee coming off the top of the head wasn’t really respected. The sentiment was emcees only did that if they couldn’t write. The coming off the top of the head rhymer had a built-in excuse to not be critiqued as hard

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

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

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

Lust is weak desire. A woman without a good head on her shoulders is nothing but a piece of meat.

Any man without a woman is incomplete, and vice-versa she's obsolete.