Excellence is my presence. Never tense, never hesitant.
The lesson from the smith and wesson is depressin’.
To all the teachers that told me I’d never amount to nothing.
Forgive me for my disrespect, forgive me for my lies.
Never trust nobody, your moms will set your ass up.
If the game shakes me or breaks me, I hope it makes me a better man.
Get ready to die, tell God I say hi.
I’m making music for the people. If y’all love the music, y’all gonna buy the music.
Growing up in the streets of Bed-Stuy, it was hard, yo.
Even when I was wrong, I got my point across.
Never let no one know how much dough you hold.
Play the charts like the Beatles.
The second time I went to jail, I was like, ‘okay, this is not the move.’
I’m a thug, but I swear for three days I cried.
My real life helped me sell a lot of records.
You’re nobody ’til somebody kills you.
She used my toothbrush to clean the toilet.
I can’t never stop nobody, can’t knock nobody hustle.
And everything you get, ya gotta work hard for it.
We be tight like frogs ass.
With big folks, either people think you look mean or it’s more of a jolly Santa Claus, ‘Oh, he’s just a pudgy little teddy bear pillow.’