“I’ve always been an underdog. I feel like I beat the odds.”

I try to put all those positive things into a regular human character, which is myself.

I put a lot of pressure on myself. I think something’s not good enough, and I won’t stop until I feel like I’ve made it. I’m never satisfied.

Don’t let bridges you cross be bridges you burn.

Anything I do, I want to do it well.

It’s no coincidence that all the greatest rappers – whoever you put in your top five – I guarantee you they are great storytellers.

Time will tell who is on my side.

Tupac was just so passionate about what he believes in and not afraid to say anything.

In this life ain’t no happy endings. Only pure beginnings followed by years of sinning and fake repentance.

Catch me, I’ve fallen in love for the first time.

My life accelerated, but had to wait my turn. But then I redecorated, that means my tables turn.

Nothing lasts forever, but at least we’ve got these memories.

Keep grindin’ boy, your life can change in one year, And even when it’s dark out, the sun is shining somewhere.

It’s beauty in the struggle, ugliness in the success.

I had a lot of resistance, and not just to fame. I was always conscious of not changing.

I don’t like to think of it as being fired. Instead, I prefer to think of it as being on indefinite leave with a sabbatical flair.

The music becomes more pure and soulful when it’s true, and it has to be true.

I’ve got a good mind to go out and join a club and beat you over the head with it.

You never win a game unless you beat the guy in front of you. The score on the board doesn’t mean a thing. That’s for the fans. You’ve got to win the war with the man in front of you. You’ve got to get your man.

Talent you have naturally. Skill is only developed by hours and hours and hours of beating on your craft.

Every kid starts out as a natural-born scientist, and then we beat it out of them. A few trickle through the system with their wonder and enthusiasm for science intact.

Don’t spend time beating on a wall, hoping to transform it into a door.

Patience, persistence and perspiration make an unbeatable combination for success.

I’ve never really had much of an imagination. But still I would try to picture the exact moment when the beating of my heart would no longer be going on inside my head.

I’ll beat him so bad he’ll need a shoehorn to put his hat on.