Dre was one of my heros in the music industry. If he's not down for his homeboys, I don't wanna be a part of him or around him.

My life is in denial. And when I die, baptized in eternal fire, I'll shed many tears.

I don't know how to change the world but I know if I keep talking about how dirty it is out here, somebody gon clean it up.

The lesser the friends, the lesser the chances of betrayal.

I heard a rumor I died, Murdered in cold blood dramatized, Pictures of me in my final state, You know mama cried, But that was fiction, Some coward got the story twisted, Like I no longer existed, Mysteriously missin', I'm known worldwide baby, I ain't hard to find.

So many other things for us to see, Things to be, Our history so full of tragedy and misery.

The thing that bothers me is that it seems like all the sensitive stuff I write just goes unnoticed . . . the media doesn't get who I am at all. Or maybe they just can't accept it. It doesn't fit into those negative stories they like to write. I'm the kind of guy who is moved by a song like Don McLean's "Vincent," that one about Van Gogh. The lyric on that song is so touching. That's how I want to make my songs feel. Take "Dear Mama" - I aimed that one straight for my homies' heartstrings.