Mama gave birth to a hell raising heavenly son. See the doctor tried to smack me, but I smacked him back.

Measure a man by his actions fully from the beginning to the end. Don’t take a piece out of my life or a song out of my music and say this is what I’m about because you know better than that.

i will live by the gun and die by the gun

My music is not for everyone. It's only for the stong-willed, the [street] soldiers music. It's not like party music- I mean, you could gig to it, but it's spiritual. My musi is spiritual. It's like Negro spiituals, except for the fact that I'm not saying 'We shall Overcome.' I'm saying that we are overcome.

In my death, people will understand what I was talking about.

Now the baby's in the trash heap balling.

You never know what's going on in somebody's mind. There's a lot of pressure on someone growing up. You have to watch it.