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

Getting high off life is more than enough, and peer pressure ain't peer pressure when a boy is tough.

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

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

For the weak who seek power it'll bring, infallible the power, knowledge is king.

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

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