You ni**az get me sick, wannabe soundin like you know my arithmetic... but we don't sound alike

When I made Illmatic, I was trying to make the perfect album. It comes from the days of Wild Style. I was trying to make you experience my life. I wanted you to look at hip-hop differently. I wanted you to feel that hip-hop was changing and becoming something more real.

If you scared to take chances, you'll never have the answers...

Whats up with your motto? Will you lead? Will you follow?

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

Freedom or jail clips inserted, a baby's being born/ Same time a man is murdered, the beginning and end.

I don't meditate. Silence is golden though.