It's like if you plant something in the concrete and if it grow and the rose petal got all kinds of scratches and marks, you ain't gonna say, 'Damn, look at all the scratches and marks on the rose that grew from the concrete.' You're gonna be like, 'Damn, a rose grew from the concrete?'

Play the game, never let the game play you.

It's gonna take the man in me to conquer this insanity.

And thats the way it was and thats the way the cookie crumbles

No one knows my Struggle, they only see the Trouble. Not knowing it's hard to carry on when, No one loves you.

Can't nobody touch me right now. Maybe next month all of this will be over. But this month I'm takin' every movin' target out.

Everybody’s at war with different things…I’m at war with my own heart sometimes.