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.

And I... started off dumb, raised by the hoodrats, listen to the radio wishin that i could rap.

There's gon' be some stuff you gon' see that's gon' make it hard to smile in the future. But through whatever you see, through all the rain and the pain, you gotta keep your sense of humor. You gotta be able to smile through all this bullshit. Remember that.

Nobody should be hitting lotto for 36 million dollars when we got people starving in the streets. That is not idealistic, that's just real. That is just stupid. There's no way Michael Jackson, or whoever should have thousands, millions, billions of dollars and we got people broke with two-three jobs and still can't pay bills on time. There's no way! No way these people should have planes when people don't have houses, apartments, shacks, drawers, pants!!!

I'm calling for dialogue. I'm gathering attention for dialogue which is what you do in a struggle for power.

Out of anger comes controversy, out of controversy comes conversation, out of conversation comes action.

Thug Life hit me like the Holy ghost.