To all the teachers that told me I'd never amount to nothing.

And everything you get, ya gotta work hard for it.

I'm a thug, but I swear for three days I cried.

You're either slangin' crack rock, or you got a wicked jumpshot.

Please, all you MCs out there, all you fans out there, don't think Big gonna make a record dissing 2Pac or the West Coast because it's not going down like that. I cant even see me wasting my time or my talent to disrespect another black man.

I had gone to jail, but I wasn't gettin' locked up for drugs then. I was gettin' locked up for guns. My moms kept finding guns and stuff in my room and she was gettin' more scared.

I'm trying to get other niggas off the streets.