Being in Marin City was like a small town so it taught me to be more [straightforward] with my style. Instead of of being so metaphorical with the rhyme, I was encouraged to go straight at it and hit it dead on and not waste time trying to cover thingsIn Marin City it seemed like things were real country. Everything was straightforward. Poverty was straightforward.

Gangsta Rap is dead. I've moved on. And the raps that I'm rappin to my community shouldn't be filled with rage? They shouldn't be filled with same attrocities that they gave me? The media they don't talk about it, so in my raps I have to talk about it, and it seems foreign because there's no one else talking about it.

When an angel comes down and takes me away, memories of me and my songs will always stay until the end of time

Some say the blacker the berry, the sweeter the juice I say the darker the flesh then the deeper the roots

Everybody raps. We rap to make money. We do business. Ain't no other record company out there that sold as many records as we did.

We ain't meant to survive, cause it's a setup, And even though you're fed up, Huh, ya got to keep your head up.

The people made me from the littlest crack head to the biggest baller so if i am bad its because of the bay and if i am good its because of the bay