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

I sip the Dom P watching Gandhi til I'm charged - writing in my book of rhymes, all the words past the margin

I don't get jealousy, I don't get how people hate each other - I never did.

You can't please everybody. You['d] be crazy if you're trying to. So take some time out to do some things for yourself.

Calling Michelle 'Obama Barack's baby mama?' Tell me, is that acceptable? But the Obamas aren't the only targets. Fox's pattern of race-baiting and fear-mongering regularly focuses on black leaders, black institutions and ordinary black people.

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 I ruled the world Imagine that...