If anybody can make a change it's the rappers.
My moms is strictly Christian but once I got knowledge of self and started reading she used to love when I would sit there and tell her some of the things that I learned. It gave her an open mind to where she started believing in the most high.
A lot of reasons I didn't do records with people is because I never wanted their light to reflect on me.
Subconsciously, Islam took over me so it was like eighty or ninety percent of the fabric of the person I was.
It might take a while but I think the rap game is the people that can do it. We're all role models more than athletes because athletes don't wear clothes like the kid in the hood and they don't walk and talk like the kids in the hood. We're closer to them than anybody because they can look at us and see them.
Get your money and as long as nobody is stepping on my wad then we're good.
A lot of the things that go on we can avoid some of it.
Some of you been trying to write rhymes for years, But weak ideas irritate my ears. Is this the best that you can make? Cause if not, and you got more...I'll wait.
I always gave my moms and pops the utmost respect. I didn't talk back to my peoples. The way they presented themselves to us, we knew. Don't talk back to moms and pops.
Things happen for a reason.
I try not to eat too much beef. I try to eat healthy.
When you come out the streets. I ain't braggin'. I never sold drugs but I kept a joint on me. I got arrested plenty of times back when I was a juvenile. Not saying I was a bad ass. I was a juvenile coming' out to the city, to do MC conventions that Mike & Dave was doing. I had to hold myself down. Now I put the gat up. I chill. I pay more attention to life.
I never sold drugs. A lot of people used to think I was that dude but I never sold a crumb. I used to always be upset with that.
I never tried to crossover or be in the public's eye everyday. I'm laid back with it and at times I wondered if I was doing the right thing promoting myself staying back a little bit and coming out when I felt that I had too. But when I get all the accolades and hear the things people say it just puts it all together for me man. It's a blessing.
I always tried to manage my money smart.
I've always been a fan of hip hop and there are cats out there that I admire.
Whenever I sat down to write something it was never anything I took lightly. It was something that I'd want you, somebody in Japan, and somebody [over there to hear it].
Every time I sit down and write I got to put something conscious in there. It's like I got a job now. They say that for those that know you got to deal in equality. If you know and you don't speak on it and don't apply it, it's like you're the worst hypocrite. I feel I got a job to do, being that I study so much and I believe in Allah like I do, I feel like I got to spread the word.
I loved the hood and still love the hood but I had to realize like Ra you a rapper now you're in the public eye.
Rappers are separated.
If something comes at me of course I'm gonna handle my business but I'm not the type to provoke the bullshit so I don't really get a lot of that.
I've always been a picky eater but I'm not the healthiest eater.
I feel that when we leave here I think it's just another transition and whatever it is I hope I'm prepared for it.
I never went to college. I think about it a lot. I can't watch a game without thinking where I would have been if I had ga head and went to college and pursued my career.
I think it's a combination of my peoples that I grew up under, places that I hung out is what contributed to where I'm at now.
