If I made an album just to sell you a story about how I'm the man, it really doesn't show any human side to me. It's good to talk about what's real and what's relevant.

At one point, the old school club retires and you're next up to bat, but if you stop before your time, you will see someone else live your dream.

I used to keep a dictionary and work with it and then I realized there are more words that exist in the English language than there are in this dictionary.

Life is parallel to Hell but I must maintain and be prosperous, though we live dangerous.

Play it cool, that's the old school rule man.

People afraid of criticism but I always put myself in a sacrificial position,they been know I ain't just rappin for fame

I want you to know who I am: what the streets taste like, feel like, smell like. What the cops talk like, walk like, think like. What crackheads do - I wanted you to smell it, feel it. It was important to me that I told the story that way because I thought that it wouldn't be told if I didn't tell it.