Every time you see kid and hear kid, you think, man, I have to not sound like a kid.
Not everyone is the same. You can't label a person just because of what they do or what they've done.
Whether the people in Haiti, the young kids in Chicago that [are] going through violence, or whether you're in Atlanta or L. A. or Europe - it's not even color barriers for me - I go to where I know there's a lot of turmoil and pain.
If the eyes are the window to your soul open eyes bring the cold.
My mom has obviously had a powerful influence on my life and her voice can describe certain things that I couldn't see in myself.
I wonder if these wack niggas realize they wack, And they the reason that my people say they tired of rap.
When you see people that lived their purpose and sacrificed, who are everyday people - teachers, sanitation workers, and just people from all walks of life - that said, "I'm standing up for what I believe in. I'm standing up for my community. " That reaffirms what you can do.
I was 12 when I started playing guitar with my brothers.
You are doing better than you think you are.
This country lacks the backbone and the spine and the will to demand fair trade and stand up for our products. If our producers can't compete, shame on us. Then we lose. But requiring our producers to compete when the game is rigged, saying our producers ought to compete, when foreign markets are closed to us, is fundamentally wrong.
The longer the life the more the offense, the more the offense the more the pain, the more the pain the less the defense and the less the defense the less the gain.