“I know you like the way I am freakin’ it. I talk with slang and I’m never gonna stop speakin’ it.”

My name is L and I’m from a part of town where clowns, Get beat down and all you hear is gunshot sounds ‘Cause at nighttime niggas try to tax, they’re sneakier than alley cats, that’s why I carry gats

I got the wild style, always been a foul child, My guns go boom-boom, and your guns go pow-pow.

I’m rollin’ with Satan, not Jesus Christ. I’m the only son of the devil.

Listen Columbo you’re mad because your money come slow And what you make in a year I make in one show

Some girls barely speak, but always askin’ for a dollar.

I’m known to have a hottie open, I keep the shotty smokin, Front and get half the bones in your body broken.

If you don’t got endz, you won’t be gettin’ no skinz, And if you don’t got money, you won’t scoop a honey. If you don’t got cash, you won’t be gettin’ no ass, And if you don’t got loot, you won’t be knockin’ no boots.

I’m gettin’ stacks while you askin’ people, ‘Do you want some fries with that?’

I’m from where the real hustlers pile dough, the home of Rich Rich Porter, Azie, Alpo.

A girl ask me for a ring and i put one around her whole eye.

Im known for snatchin’ purses and bombin’ churches I get more pussy on accident then most niggas get on purpose

Cuz phony faggots I froze, it’s a fact, I flip fast on foes with fabulous fantastic flows.

And when it comes to gettin nookie, I’m not a rookie… I got girls that make that chick Toni Braxton look like Whoopi.

Im so ahead of my time my parents havent met yet

Player haters be givin’ me harsh looks, But I’m tryin to sell records like Garth Brooks.

A hard core life I toast to ex flaw, therefore I live raw and went to war wit the law.

So, I really enjoyed doing the Strickland Banks album. But there’s no point in my trying to release underground hip-hop music on a major label. That part of my talent, or part of my art, had to live somewhere else and feature film was the perfect vehicle for it.

I don’t know enough about hip-hop, though I’ve heard some great hip-hop. I just did a thing with Qwest Love – we did a performance together in Memphis at the Folk Alliance Festival, and we had a great jam and a conversation.

With hip-hop music, it allowed me to talk about political and social things but also to tell stories.

There’s a lot of hip-hop that would be great with a banjo in it. It would just groove like crazy, and I hope I get to be one of the guys who does that, because it’s coming. It’s coming.

Hip-hop is making a lot of noise. It should get some more spotlight.

I’m going to make a very bold statement: Hip-hop has done more than any leader, politician, or anyone to improve race relations.

I like the way hip-hop is now. It’s grown up enough so that it can get involved with politics if it feels like it.

As our knees and hips and eyesight deteriorate, we become more dependable, less impulsive, kinder, and less moody.