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  • A lot of people, black, white, mexican, young or old, fat or skinny have a problem being true to they self. They have a problem looking in the mirror and looking directly into their own souls. Only reason I am who I am today is because I can look directly into my face and find my soul

  • I don't have no fear of death. My only fear is coming back reincarnated.

  • If I win and get the money, then the Oakland Police department is going to buy a boys' home, me a house, my family a house, and a Stop Police Brutality Center.

  • It's the game of life. Do I win or do I lose? One day they're gonna shut the game down. I gotta have as much fun and go around the board as many times as I can before it's my turn to leave.

  • My mother was a woman. A black woman. A single mother. Raising two kids on her own. So she was dark skinned. Had short hair. Got no love from nobody except for a group called the Black Panthers. So that's why she was a Black Panther.

  • If you believe in God, believe in Death Row East.

  • I worked hard all my life as far as this music business. I dreamed of the day when I could go to New York and feel comfortable and they could come out here and be comfortable.

  • It's a struggle for every young Black man. You know how it is, only God can judge us.

  • All I'm trying to do is survive and make good out of the dirty, nasty, unbelievable lifestyle that they gave me.

  • Here's a message to the new borns, waiting to breathe: if you believe then you can achieve. Just look at me, against all odds 'though life is hard, we carry on, livin' in the projects, broke with no lights on. To all the seeds that follow me- protect your essence, born with less, but you still precious.

  • What I learned in jail is that I can't change. I can't live a different lifestyle - this is it. This is the life that they gave and this is the life that I made.

  • I would rather have been shot straight-up in cold blood-but to be set up? By people who you trusted? That's bad.

  • I don't understand how people can stand next to you one year,and next year, they cannot. They're going crazy, screaming. They can't take it that you're there. But last year I was in the same club,walking around,lonely like a motherfucker. Couldn't get a date or a dance. I was too skinny, too something, and now, "He's just adorable. He's just, oh!

  • Biggie came at a time just like Hitler did with the Germans.

  • Don't change on me. Don't extort me unless you intend to do it forever.

  • It makes me unhappy when brothers make babies and leave a young mother to be a pappy.

  • Tupac the son of the Black Panther, and Tupac the rider. Those are the two people inside of me. I was raised off those ideals.

  • Is it a crime, to fight, for what is mine?

  • There's nobody in the business strong enough to scare me.

  • I guess cause i'm black boy, I'm supposed to say 'peace', sing songs, and get capped on.

  • Dont blame me, I was given this world, I didn't make it.

  • I'm 23 years old. I might just be my mother's child, but in all reality, I'm everybody's child. Nobody raised me; I was raised in this society.

  • I said it in the beginning. That I was gonna take them niggaz out the game and sure enough I will. Already people can't look at Biggie and not laugh.

  • How many niggas want to be involved, see I was only talking Biggie, but I'll kill all of y'all.

  • The only thing that comes to a sleeping man is dreams.

  • When you do rap albums, you got to train yourself. You got to constantly be in character.

  • How many caskets can we witness before we see it's hard to live this life without God, so we must ask forgiveness.

  • The people made me from the littlest crack head to the biggest baller so if i am bad its because of the bay and if i am good its because of the bay

  • If you could walk a mile in my shoes you'd be crazy too.

  • I smoke blunt to take the pain out and if I wasn't high I'd probably blow my brains out.

  • I think I'm a natural-born leader. I know how to bow down to authority if it's authority that I respect.

  • If you can make it through the night, there's a brighter day.

  • For every single dark night there is a brighter day.

  • How many pistols smoking coming from a broken family?

  • I turn to a life of crime cause I came from a broken family.

  • Even as a little seed, I could see his plan for me. Stranded on welfare, another broken family.

  • I was looking for a father, he was gone. I hung around with the thugs, and even though they sold drugs, they showed a young brother love.

  • I rap about fighting back. I make it uncomfortable by putting details to it. It might not have been politically correct but I've reached somebody; They relating to me. They relate to the brutal honesty in the rap.

  • Keep your head up, Legs closed, Eyes open.

  • It seems like every time you come up something happens to bring you back down.

  • I'd rather die like a man, than live like a coward

  • Let the Lord judge the criminals.

  • They claim that I'm violent just cuz I refuse to be silent.

  • When I say ' thug' I mean not a criminal, someone who beats you over the head, I mean the underdog. You could have two people- one person has everything he needs to succeed and one person has nothing. If the person who has nothing succeeds, he's a thug. Cuz he overcame all the obstacles.

  • I know it seems hard sometimes but remember one thing. Through every dark night, there's a bright day after that. So no matter how hard it get, stick your chest out, keep ya head up.... and handle it.

  • No matter what these people say about me, my music doesn't glorify any image. My music is spiritual when you listen to it. It's all about emotion, I tell my innermost, darkest secrets.

  • I know what good morals are, but you're supposed to disregard good morals when you're living in a crazy, bad world. If you're in hell, how can you live like an angel? You're surrounded by devils,trying to be an angel? That's like suicide.

  • If you don't know me, don't judge me.

  • Questions for the lord, why he don't like me, guard my soul, Though my life was hard with no remorse.

  • If I upset you, don't stress. Never forget That God isn't finished with me yet. I feel His hand on my brain... When I write rhymes, I go blind and let the Lord do His thang.

  • I set goals, take control, drink out my own bottle, I make mistakes but learn from every one, And when it's said and done, I bet this brother be a better one, If I upset you don't stress, Never forget, that God isn't finished with me yet

  • Temperature is as far as the heat goes, people are haters cos im doing something good. Hate me dont hate the hood. It made me strong, you wouldn't last that long.

  • I have no patience for anybody who doubts me, none at all.

  • We probably in hell already, our dumb asses not knowing.

  • We probaly in hell already, our dumb asses not knowin, everybody kissin ass to go to heaven aint goin.

  • This duo inside of me causes the perfect opportunity to live and learn twice as fast as those who choose to accept simplicity.

  • With all my fans I got a family again.

  • fear no man but only God

  • My only fear of death is reincarnation

  • We ain't meant to survive, cause it's a setup, And even though you're fed up, Huh, ya got to keep your head up.

  • I'm not a gangsta rapper. I rap about things that happen to me. I got shot five times. People was trying to kill me.

  • Gangsta Rap is dead. I've moved on. And the raps that I'm rappin to my community shouldn't be filled with rage? They shouldn't be filled with same attrocities that they gave me? The media they don't talk about it, so in my raps I have to talk about it, and it seems foreign because there's no one else talking about it.

  • Let me say for the record, I am not a gangster and never have been. I`m not the thief who grabs your purse. I`m not the guy who jacks your car. I`m not down with the people who steal and hurt others. I`m just a brother who fight back.

  • Thanks for comin out, God bless you, good night... What of fame? Everyone knows your face, the world screams your name And never again, are you alone..

  • Since I only got one life to ive, God forgive me for my sins, let me make it and i'll never steal again, or deal again, my only friend is my misery. Wantin revenge for the agony they did to me.

  • I believe that everything that you do bad comes back to you. So everything that I do that's bad, I'm going to suffer from it. But in my mind, I believe what I'm doing is right. So I feel like I'm going to heaven

  • Did you hear about the rose that grew from a crack in the concrete? Proving nature's laws wrong, it learned to walk without having feet. Funny, it seems to by keeping it's dreams; it learned to breathe fresh air. Long live the rose that grew from concrete when no one else even cared.

  • Did you hear about the rose that grew from a crack in the concrete proving nature's laws wrong it learned 2 walk without having feet

  • Long live the rose that grew from the concrete when no one else ever cared.

  • Of course I'm going to say "I'm a thug" that's because I came from the GUTTER and I'm still HERE!

  • My mother taught me three things, respect, knowledge-search for knowledge, it's an eternal journey. That's like my hair-cut, the line, 360 degrees, find knowledge always. And she taught me to not be quiet, if there's something on my mind speak it. But also to listen.

  • I have no fear, I have only ambition, and I want mine, And I will do anything to protect and feed my family.

  • But please don't cry, dry your eyes, never let up Forgive but don't forget, girl keep your head up

  • All the Hennessy and weed can't hide, the pain i feel inside, its like I'm living just to die.

  • Will I, succeed, paranoid from the weed and hocus pocus, try to focus but I can't see.

  • Expose foes wit my hocus pocus flows, they froze now suckas idolize my chosen blows

  • Dre was one of my heros in the music industry. If he's not down for his homeboys, I don't wanna be a part of him or around him.

  • Dear Mama, don't cry, your baby boy's doin' good, Tell the homies I'm in heaven, and they ain't got hoods. Seen a show with Marvin Gaye last night, it had me shook, Drippin' peppermint Schnapps, with Jackie Wilson, and Sam Cooke...

  • Losing my homies in a hurry, they're relocating to the cemetery.

  • No thank you to all the bustas, cowards, and FAKE HOMIES who showed me the depths of jealousy, envy and greed.

  • Dear mama, yo baby boys doing fine tell the homies I'm in heaven and they aint got hoods.

  • Perhaps I was blind to the facts, stabbed in the back I couldn't trust my own homies just a bunch of dirty rats

  • It's kinda hard to be optimistic, When your homies lying dead on the pavement twisted.

  • I believe in God. Whatever supposed to happen supposed to happen. But I can not live in a jail cell. That's why I don't rob people and stick up people.

  • I'm used on every level. I have no friends. I have no resting place. I never sleep. I can never close my eyes. It's horrible.

  • I'm not perfect. But I'll always be real

  • I just spent 11 and a half months in a maximum-security jail, got shot five times, and was wrongly convicted of a crime I didn't commit.

  • I don't have to talk about whether or not I got raped in jail.

  • Only God can judge me.

  • Only God Can Judge Me That which does not kill me can only make me stronger. I don't see why everybody feel as though that they gotta tell me how to live my life

  • Oh Lord, help me change my ways, Show a litlle mercy on judgement day, It aint me I was raised this way, Never let em' play me for a busta, Makin' hell for a huslter.

  • That which does not kill me can only make me stronger.

  • The only thing that can kill me is death, that's the only thing that can ever stop me, is death, and even then my music will live forever.

  • I was raised in the city, shitty Ever since I was an itty bitty kitty Drinkin' liquor out my momma's titty And smokin' weed was an everyday thang in my household, And drinking liquor til' you out cold

  • Ever since I was an itty bitty kitty, been drinking liquor out of Mama's titty.

  • I'm tryin to make a dollar out of fifteen cents It's hard to be legit and still pay tha rent

  • The american dream wasn't meant for me, cause lady liberty's a hypocrite she lied to me, promised me freedom,education, and equality never gave me nothing but slavery but now look at how dangerous you made me callin me a mad man because im strong and bold.

  • No longer living in fear, my pistol close in hand, Convinced this is my year.

  • Can the Lord forgive me? Got the spirit of a thug in me.

  • I got love for my brother but we can never go nowhere unless we share with each other..

  • You never stop loving someone. You just learn to live without them.

  • We talk a lot about Malcom X and Martin Luther King JR, but It's time to be like them, as strong as them. They were mortal men like us and everyone of us can be like them. I don't want to be a role model. I just want to be someone who says, this is who i am, this is what i do. I say what's on my mind.

  • My first words was thug for life and papa pass the mack

  • My mama always used to tell me: 'If you can't find somethin' to live for, you best find somethin' to die for.'

  • Ain't a woman alive that could take my mama's place

  • I feel close to Marvin Gaye, Vincent van Gogh, because nobody appreciated his work until he was dead. Now it's worth millions.

  • I remember Marvin Gaye used to sing to me, He had me feelin' like black was the thing to be.

  • As wars come and go, my soldier stays eternal

  • No one knows my Struggle, they only see the Trouble. Not knowing it's hard to carry on when, No one loves you.

  • The trick is to never lose hope!

  • During your life, never stop dreaming. No one can take away your dreams

  • Never surrender, it's all about the faith you got: don't ever stop, just push it 'till you hit the top and if you drop, at least you know you gave your all to be true to you, that way you can never fall

  • Never surrender, it's all about the faith that you got.

  • I am not a perfectionist, but still I seek perfection. I am not a great romantic, but yet I yearn 4 affection

  • we wouldn't ask why a rose that grew from the concrete for having damaged petals, in turn, we would all celebrate its tenacity, we would all love its will to reach the sun, well, we are the roses, this is the concrete and these are my damaged petals, dont ask me why, thank god, and ask me how

  • It's like if you plant something in the concrete and if it grow and the rose petal got all kinds of scratches and marks, you ain't gonna say, 'Damn, look at all the scratches and marks on the rose that grew from the concrete.' You're gonna be like, 'Damn, a rose grew from the concrete?'

  • There should be a class on apartheid. There should be a class on why people are hungry, but there are not. There are classes on...gym. Physical Education.

  • If a picture is worth a thousand words, photographers are worth a million.

  • Picture perfect, I paint a perfect picture bomb the hoochies wit' precision, my intentions to get richer.

  • Tomorrow I see change, a chance to build a new. Built on spirit intent of heart, and ideals based on truth.

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