You can positively affect and change a social circumstance with art, and it’s vital that a change happens now.
I don't hate nobody. I hate certain conditions that are inflicted upon the people - and they're helpless with it.
You have to experience life, make observations, and ask questions.
What I take from writers I like is their economy - the ability to use language to very effective ends. The ability to have somebody read something and see it, or for somebody to paint an entire landscape of visual imagery with just sheets of words - that's magical.
To me, it's like happiness is about happiness, but happiness is a fight.
I get reminded a lot of the time that my life is a little bit different, but I'm just trying to keep it as regular as possible because I like it that way
Yo, it's 1 universal law but 2 sides to every story, 3 strikes and you be in for life, mandatory. 4 MC's murdered in the last 4 years, I ain't tryin to be the 5th one, the Millennium is here. Yo, it's 6 million ways to die, from the 7 deadly thrills, 8-year olds gettin' found with 9 mill's. It's 10 P.M., where your seeds at? What's the deal?
I want to be necessary and do good works. I ain't here to waste nobody's time, because I don't want you to waste mine.
There are a lot of people who call themselves teachers or leaders, but they're really just propagandists.
Hip-hop is the last true folk art.
I was taught when there's somethin' you can change around keep quiet, you got nothin' to complain about.
You've got to validate every day. There are those who just put a stamp on it and say, "This is gonna be a good day and I'm not gonna let anything else make it a bad day."
When people say I don't see you enough, well just because you don't see me don't mean I don't exist or just 'cause you haven't heard me don't mean I haven't been making noise. But if I keep making noise, you'll pick up.
I'm not shy about heated debate or passionate discourse, but when people get crazy or rude, that's a buzz kill. There's got to be a better code of conduct, some basic etiquette.
Twitter freaks me out. You have followers? It feels so obsessive and proprietary.
Everything's got space between it, the planets, trees, your eyes. Your eyes get too close together, it's a whole different world. You can lose perspective.
And from the moment that I saw you, I knew you was trouble, But I disregarded detour signs, And did not stop til you was mine. I guess God was like, 'Aight, fine.' Careful what you wish for, cause you just might get it in heaps. Try to give it back, He be like, 'Nah, that's yours to keep.'
My Umi said shine your light on the world, shine your light for the world to see
I'm a passionate person. I'm a lot of things, like most people are. Most people are dynamic. The focus is not on me though, I'm a screen. The aim is to always keep myself in the position where the screen is clear.
In the early '90s, when I really started to find my voice, I was reading a lot of books, and I was moved by the writers, like Chinua Achebe, and I wanted to be able to write rhymes that were as potent as what I was reading.
This thing called rhymin' is no different than coal minin'; We both on assignment to unearth the diamond.
Beef is not what Jay said to Nas; Beef is when the working folks can't find jobs.
I guess something that you love to do, you gotta ease up off it and give it a little space, come back and be fresh to it.
I'd bet a million dollars on DOOM against Lil' Wayne
I seen her on the ave, spotted her more than once. Ass so fat that you could see it from the front.
