No temporary chaos is worth your sanity. Just knowing that whatever happens, it happens to the best of them too.

I want to sound like an instrument. I want my voice and my words to marry the beat.

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

There was a lot of negative that was put on rappers for using the word, and I feel like we're just misunderstood. Most of us are; some of us is just plain wack.

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.

I think it's harder to make a classic now, not because of what people say, but because artists now are so concerned with what people say.

There's not one person in the world that's not a living, walking contradiction.