The rude awakening I got was that this country can determine the fate of anyone by using propaganda on a public that is hungry for lies.
Sometimes we don't realize that the government is for the people by the people.
A lot of people don't want to vote because they believe the negatives rather than the positives about the outcome of their decisions about the sheriff or councilman or the board of education in their community.
We want to make everybody mad enough to look at the ghetto right in their own state, not just to look at the middle-class and the rich areas.
We were just expressing stuff that happens in the ghetto, just being like reporters.
I want to let all black women know I have no disrespect toward them at all.
We'd rather be hated for what we are than loved for what we're not.
This society, it hurts me, man.
It's not fair that teachers are getting low income to where they get frustrated to where they don't even want to teach.
It's not fair that everybody has to be segregated.
I want artists to tell their story and share their life experience.
My contract with Rap-A-Lot was never-ending and had me working for everything against royalties.
I've got a family to feed and I've got to work to feed them.
All I really want is to be left alone.
Party anthems and party things aren't what people need when they're the most oppressed.
It's not like I'm afraid of dying. I know what it's like on the other side.
I just want people to be aware so that when they set dreams or goals, they're healthy enough to fulfill and live.
Fame will make you crazy.
I still feel the pain from the fact I've got a bullet in my brain.
You can't candy-coat an unsweetened world. But you can get together and make it a better place to live.
