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 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.

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

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

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

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.

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