"Hip-Hop's last hope like Obi-Wan Kenobi Through your television I'm shining light like a train Comin out like earthworms when it rains, bringing it like the C.I.A. be bringing in crack cocaine bailing out of planes with the George Bush connections, I push Reflection like I'm selling izm, like a dealer building the system Supply and the demand it's all just capitalism Niggaz don't sell crack cause they like to see blacks smoke Niggaz sell crack cause they broke"

"Life is a beautiful struggle People search through the rubble for a suitable hussle Some people using their noodle Some people using their muscle Some people put it all together make it fit like a puzzle"

"Yo, I heard it's said the revolution won't be televised But in the land of milk and honey there's a date you gotta sell it by Otherwise it just expires and spoils and these folks jump out the pot when the water too hot"

"Those who would trade in their freedom For their protection deserve neither"

"Fuck the harder way, I'm doing it the smarter way"

"Spit bars you can't touch, like tits in strip bars, get scarred, I drop hits to hit hard"

"We commute through computers. Spirits stay mute while our ego spread rumors. We're survivalists turned to consumers"

"Niggas with knowledge are more dangerous than niggas with guns. They make the guns easy to get and try to keep niggas dumb"

"These niggas ain't thugs, the real thugs is the government. Don't matter if you're Independent, Democrat or Republican"

"Persistance, dedication Consistent, motivation, resistance to stagnation of information, distribute it free to the entire population No hesitation, makin it public No privitazation from corporations"

"These cats drink champagne and toast to death and pain, Like slaves on a ship talking about who's got the flyest chain"

"Creating crime rates to fill the new prisons they build Over money and religion theres more blood that spills Like the wounds of slaves in cotton fields that never heal Whats the deal?"

"We played against each other like puppets, swearing you got pull When the only pull you got is the wool over your eyes Getting knowledge in jail like a blessing in disguise Look in the skies for god, what you see besides the smog Is broken dreams flying away on the wings of the obscene."

"At exactly which point do you start to realize, that life without knowledge is death in disguise?"

"Aaaah. It's Rewind time. If I could controlled Rewind I would want Fortnite and Marques Brownlee."

"That was a horrific night, as you can imagine. You know, there’s many nuances and complexities to it, but at the end of the day, I just, I lost it, you know? And I guess what I would say, you just never know what somebody’s going through. In the audience right now, you are sitting next to strangers, and somebody’s mother died last week, somebody’s child is sick, somebody just lost their job, somebody just found out their spouse cheated. You just don’t know what is going on with people. And I was going through something that night. Not that that justifies my behavior at all."

"Keep my wife's name out [of] your fucking mouth!"

"I feel like I could run for President. People often laugh, but if I set my mind to it, within the next 15 years I could be in the White House."

"The only thing that I see that is distinctly different about me is I’m not afraid to die on a treadmill, right? I will run. I will not be out-worked, period. You might have more talent than me, you might be smarter than me, you might be sexier than me, you might be all of those things you got it on me in nine categories. But if we get on the treadmill together, right, there’s two things. You’re getting off first, or I’m going to die. It’s really that simple, right?"

"Even Hitler didn't wake up going, "let me do the most evil thing I can do today." I think he woke up in the morning and using a twisted, backwards logic, he set out to do what he thought was "good." Stuff like that just needs reprogramming. … I wake up every day full of hope, positive that every day is going to be better than yesterday. And I'm looking to infect people with my positivity. I think I can start an epidemic."

"It's great to be Black in Hollywood. When a Black actor does something, it seems new and different just by virtue of the fact that he's Black."

"She does that thing with her lip, now she's melting me I'm putty in her palms, I'm wrapped around her finger A yo-yo on a string, she lets me sit there and just dangle Until something better comes along and she'll just drop me like a hot potato"

"This love triangle left us in a wreck, tangled [rectangle]"

"It's never too late to start a new beginning"

"Got my faith, where's yours? Do you still believe in me? Didn't I give everything I had to give you to make you see?"

"I'm just a man, but as long as I got a mic, I'm godlike"

"It's true, I'm a Rubik's—a beautiful mess"

"They take your heart and steal your life And it's as though you feel you've died ‘Cause you've been killed inside But yet you're still alive Which means you will survive"

"I'da flipped every mattress, every rock and desert cactus Owned a collection of maps and followed my kids to the edge of the atlas If someone ever moved 'em from me"

"Ma, you're still beautiful to me, 'cause you're my mom"

"I make elevating music, you make elevator music"

"Summa-lumma, dooma-lumma, you assumin' I'm a human What I gotta do to get it through to you I'm superhuman?"

"I'm beginning to feel like a Rap God, Rap God"

"All my life I was told and taught I am not shit By you wack fuckin' giant sacks of lyin' dog shit Now you shut up, bitch, I am talkin' Thought I was full of horseshit and now you fuckin' worship the ground on which I am walkin'"

"So spread the word 'cause I'm promoting my past until I'm passed out"

"You don't get another chance, life is no Nintendo game"

"Y'all are Eminem backwards: you're mini-mes"

"Now get off my dick! Dick's too short of a word for my dick—get off my antidisestablishmentarianism, you prick!"

"I fell for this so many times it's ridiculous And still I stick with this, I'm sick of this But in my sickness and addiction, you're addictive as they get Evil as they come, vindictive as they make 'em"

"I poured my heart out to you, let down my guard, swear to God I'll blow my brains in your lap, lay here and die in your arms Drop to my knees and I'm pleading, I'm trying to stop you from leaving"

"And love is evil ("evol"): spell it backwards, I'll show ya"

"Man, get these wack cocksuckers off stage! Where the fuck is Kanye when you need him? Snatch the mic from 'em—bitch, I'ma let you finish in a minute!"