My mother taught me three things: respect, knowledge, search for knowledge. It’s an eternal journey.
I feel close to Marvin Gaye, Vincent van Gogh, because nobody appreciated his work until he was dead. Now it’s worth millions.
Measure a man by his actions fully from the beginning to the end. Don’t take a piece out of my life or a song out of my music and say this is what I’m about because you know better than that.
If you believe in God, believe in Death Row East.
I think I’m a natural-born leader. I know how to bow down to authority if it’s authority that I respect.
When my heart can beat no more, I hope I die for a principle or a belief that I have lived for.
Hip Hop was supposed to be this new thing that had no boundaries and was so different to everyday music. As long as it has soul to it, hip hop can live on.
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.
Life’s a wheel of fortune and it’s my chance to spin it.
If you can make it through the night, there’s a brighter day.
When you do rap albums, you got to train yourself. You got to constantly be in character.
I’ll probably be punished for hard living.
I am not a perfectionist, but still I seek perfection. I am not a great romantic, but yet I yearn 4 affection.
I didn’t choose the thug life, the thug life chose me.
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.
There’s nobody in the business strong enough to scare me.
We all gonna die, we bleed from similar veins.
Hoping they bury me with ammunition, weed, and shells. Just in case...
Ain’t a woman alive that could take my mama’s place.
Will I, succeed, paranoid from the weed and hocus pocus, try to focus but I can’t see.