Once you make it to your point of making it, you'll appreciate the struggle.

When you're a teenager, you want to meet a lot of girls - you want to get the most girls. You don't know anything about respect; you don't know anything about being faithful and loyal to your girlfriend.

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.

Your look reflects whats happening in your mind.

Let the music diffuse all the tension.

Use your own intuition. You are tomorrow.

Hip-hop is bigger than the South, hip-hop is bigger than New York.