“When you awaken, your manhood will be taken.”

Never we sleep, a thug doesn’t rest, Cause a wise man said: it was a cousin of death.

Power just makes you reject destiny and devour your fate.

I’m mostly concentrating now on continuing to make history in Hip-Hop, making everybody proud of me, I’m not just a rapper now, I’m in history now.

I’m a living abortion.

Snorting cocaine is like feeding pork to the brain.

Strip those clowns down to nudity, shove the chrome where they doo doo be.

Mark you for death, won’t even talk that East or West crap. From Watts to Lefrak, it ain’t where ya from, it’s where’s your gat.

Battery never dies, the ghetto keeps me wise.

It’s my world, I demand my respect. Give me your girl or get slapped in your neck.

Better to have loved and lost than to live with regret.

Scholars, street knowledge, Carter kids stuck in the projects.

I have to be perfectly honest: You should have an anniversary to acknowledge the way I work the ebonics.

…in the middle of Little Italy little did we know that we riddled some middleman who didn’t do diddily

There’s no longevity, living off of negativity.

I blow my own mind like Nirvana, and go the whole nine like Madonna.

When you talk about hip-hop, you’re talking about the whole culture and movement. You have to take the whole culture for what it is.

I’d like to see people pay attention to the science of hip hop. The knowledge part, the political side of what hip hop could do, or where hip hop is gonna go.

I am one of the founders of Hip-Hop along with my brothers Kool DJ Herc and Grandmaster Flash.

It’s every brand’s goal to be seen in the mainstream, and hip-hop music has become mainstream music.

Endorsements with hip-hop artists work because hip-hop artists typically set the most trends

There is a community in hip-hop. It doesn’t seem like that anywhere else, except maybe in punk rock. But punk rock is tricky, because it has become such a pop thing. But in rap, there is still a feeling of community. Who are our peers? Rappers.

The world is full of bullshitters, Liars, and triers and quitters, Coulda-beens, wannabe’s, thought-I-was, isn’t-I-is’s… And everybody in your business.

Linguine linguistics that left my verbal essence saucy, Send a message, leave you sleepin’ next to headless horsey.