"Now all these new cats with they hats flipped backwards fingers intertwined in sum gang sign madness I got an exam lets if you pass it Now who can quote a Daddy Kane line the fastest?"

"Some things are forever, some things are not It's the things we remember that gave the world shock""

"When I was nine, coldest winter i remember we're slipping in december, two feet of snow Yeah thats the east coast, that black ice - symbolize the rap life"

"And they're aware of us though And we don't give a flyin' 747 fuck though Stayin' on my hus-tle"

"Whatever you decide, be careful, some men be Rapists, so act your age, don't pretend to be Older than you are, give yourself time to grow You thinking he can give you wealth"

"I get upset 'cause I just want to be treated the way you are Like a star not a worry in this world thus far But wait a minute we both need ya mother's attention I must be crazy jealous of my own baby infant*"

"How can I trust you when I can't trust me"

"You a slave to a page in my rhyme book"

"Don't say the car is topless, say the titties are out"

"I'm capable of anything, my imagination can give me wings"

"The reason that I want to be alone Tired of all the things that went wrong That would have went right if I would have did it on my own"

"The hardest thing is to forgive, but God does Even if you murdered or robbed, yeah it's wrong, but God loves Take one step toward him, he takes two toward you Even when all else fail, God support you.""

"No idea is original, there's nothing new under the sun, it's never what you do, but how it's done"

"It's suicidal, high smokin' so much la', I saw a dead bird flyin through a broken sky"

"Aiyyo, the brother's "Stillmatic" I crawled up out of that grave, wipin the dirt, cleanin my shirt. They thought I'd make another "Illmatic" But it's always forward I'm movin Never backwards stupid here's another classic"

"(speking) "You hear about, you see about it/ it's in your papers/ it's in your daily news/ (get money!) / New York chronicles, every day/ the crime rate, the murder rate/ the money rate, the paper chase, youknowwhatImean?/ New York State of mind, baby, check it out."

"Had 8 partners growin' up/ 8 turned to 7/ 7 turned to 6 n!*@%^$/ got 2 in heaven/ 6 of us, holdin it, now it's 5 rollin' thick/the 6th one's parole flipped, 5 n***az went to 4 quick/ when he went O.T, college life, converted into gangbangin/ 4 n***az still hangin/ years passin, slang changin/ 3 of us now, 4th n***a ain't around/ we all thought he was real, he did that snake shit, fake shit/ beat his ass down/ yo his mouth could've got us all wasted/ what a fuckin clown/ all I got left in the end is two of my best friends/ and we all goin' out 'till the death of these ends"

""U wet who I want wetted/I wet who u want wetted/any nigga can get it(a favour for a favour)"

"I'm like the farmer, planting words, people are seeds/ My truth is the soil, help you grow like trees/ May the children come in all colors, change like leaves/ Behold before you, one of those prophetic MC's."

"Street scriptures, for lost souls in the crossroads.."

"Freedom or jail clips inserted, a baby's being born/ Same time a man is murdered, the beginning and end."

"Yo, if this piano's the cake then my words are the candles Light it up, make a wish, and them angels will grant you"

"I never brag, how real I keep it, cause it's the best secret."

"A thug changes, and love changes and best friends become strangers, word up"

"fake thug no love, get the slug CB4 gusto ur luck low, i didn't know til i was drunk tho you freak niggaz played out, get fucked and ate out prostitute turned bitch got the gage out 96 ways i made out montanna way, good f-e-l-l-a, verbal AK spray"

"Mad smoke makes me able to quote Soliciting ill editions of that murder I wrote."

"From child births to hearses, flow like the Nile covered surface Bit the fruit from the serpent."

"I've seen some cold nights and bloody days They grabbed me bullets spray, they used me wrong so I sing this song 'til this day."

"So analyze me, surprise me, but can't magmatize me Scannin' while you're plannin' ways to sabotage me I leave 'em froze like her-on in your nose Nas'll rock well, It ain't hard to tell"

"When I was ten I was a hip-hop a shorty wop known for rockin' microphones and twistin' of a forty top"

"Then I rose, wiping the blunts ash from my clothes then froze only to blow the herb smoke through my nose and told my little man that i'm a go cyprose there's some jewels in the skull that he can sell if he chose words of wisdom from nas try to rise up above"

""Fuck 'rap is real', watch the herbs stand still never talkin' to snakes cause the words of man kill true in the game, as long as blood is blue in my veins"

"Live amongst no roses, only the drama, for real A nickel-plate is my fate, my medicine is the ganja"

"I reminisce on park jams, my man was shot for his sheep coat chocolate blunts will make me see him drop in my weed smoke"

"I set it off with my own rhyme cause I'm as ill as a convict who kills for phone time"

"I need a new nigga, for this black cloud to follow cause while it's over me it's too dark to see tomorrow"

""Born alone, die alone, no crew to keep my crown or throne"

"I switched my motto instead of saying 'fuck tomorrow' that buck that bought a bottle could've struck the lotto"

"The smooth criminal on beat breaks Never put me in ya box if ya shit eats tapes"

"Beyond the walls of intelligence, life is defined"

"I never sleep, cause sleep is the cousin of death"

"How can you lose when you're doing you?"

"The sickening shooting spree in Tucson holds many lessons for our country, but the most important is this: It's much too easy for dangerous people to get their hands on deadly weapons. We must change this. A good start is by banning high-capacity gun magazines -- which allow scores of bullets to be loaded at one time -- such as the one used in the Tucson massacre that left six people dead and 14 others wounded, including my colleague, Rep. Gabrielle Giffords. According to news reports, Jared Lee Loughner, the alleged shooter in Tucson, used a 33-round magazine in a murderous rampage. The sheriff says 31 spent rounds were found on the scene. As we now know, a group of heroic bystanders stopped the shooter by wrestling him to the ground. But they didn't have an opportunity to intervene until he emptied the magazine and paused to reload. If the shooter didn't have access to the high-capacity magazine that he used, he would have stopped to reload sooner and lives might have been saved. Loughner's magazine was attached to a 9 mm Glock 19 semi-automatic handgun, which is the preferred weapon of deranged madmen. In 2007, Seung-Hui Cho used the same model in the Virginia Tech shooting spree, which claimed 32 lives."

""We know who the chicken hawks are. They talk tough on national defense and military issues and cast aspersions on others," he said. "When it was their turn to serve where were they? AWOL, that's where they were...the lead chickenhawk against Sen. Kerry [is] the vice president of the United States, Vice President Cheney."

"The ocean is tired. It's throwing back at us what we're throwing in there."

"Learning JavaScript used to mean you weren’t a serious software developer. Today, not learning Javascript means the same thing."

"If you are not paying for the product, you are the product."

"Healthcare is one of the areas where open data will potentially take off soonest and have the biggest impact."

"Just do something that lights you up, and lights up your customers, and lights up the world and scale to that."

"I find, Andrew Keen's, his whole pitch, I think he was just pure and simple looking for an angle, to create some controversy and sell a book, I don't think there's any substance whatever to his rants."