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 Everybody's
at war with different things...I'm at war with my own heart sometimes.
There's
gonna be some stuff u gonna see that's gonna make it hard To smile in
the future, but through whatever you see, Through all the rain and all
the pain, you gotta keep your sense of humor. you gotta be able to smile
through all this bullshit.
All
good niggers, all the niggers who change the world, die in violence.
They don't die in regular ways.
Reality
is wrong. Dreams are for real.
The
only thing that comes to a sleeping man is dreams.
The
reason why I could get into acting was because it takes nothing to get
out of who I am and go into somebody else.
I'm
not saying I'm gonna change the world, but I guarantee that I will spark
the brain that will change the world.
I
swear, if they hadn't tried to ruin me, I never would have ended up
being a rapper. I probably would have been a preacher or something.
If
you walked by a street and you was walking on the concrete and you saw a
rose growing from the concrete, even if it had messed up petals and it
was a little to the side you would marvel at just seeing a rose grow
through concrete. So why is it that when you see some ghetto kid grow
out of the dirtiest circumstance and he can talk and he can sit across
the room and make you cry, make you laugh, all you can talk about is my
dirty rose, my dirty stems and how I am leaning crooked to the side, you
can't even see that I've come up from out of that.
I
believe that everything that you do bad comes back to you. So everything
that I do that's bad, I'm going to suffer from it. But in my mind, I
believe what I'm doing is right. So I feel like I'm going to heaven.
I
feel like Black Jesus got his hands on me and guides me through life to
put me where I'm supposed to be.
I
feel like role models today are not meant to be put on a pedestal. But
more like angels with broken wings/
It
always happens, all the niggaz that change the world die, they dont get
to die like regular people, they die violently.
We
talk a lot about Malcom X and Martin Luther King JR, but It's time to be
like them, as strong as them. They were mortal men like us and everyone
of us can be like them. I don't want to be a role model. I just want to
be someone who says, this is who i am, this is what i do. I say what's
on my mind.
I
am societies child, this is how they made me, and now im sayin what's on
my mind and they dont want that. This is what you made me America.
The
only thing America respects is power and power concedes nothing. After
the LA Riots, they tried to calm us down and nothing changed since.
Though
are hands are chained like they are, they haven't taken music from us
yet. So that's how I'll fight. People tell me don't quit like everyone
else. I wont have no fear.
If
God wanted me to be quiet he would've never showed me what he does.
The
only thing that comes to a sleeping man is dreams.
Reality
is wrong. Dreams are for real.
Let
me say for the record, I am not a gangster and never have been. Im not
the thief who grabs your purse. Im not the guy who jacks your car. Im
not down with the people who steal and hurt others. Im just a brother
who fights back.
The
real tragedy is that there are some ignorant brothers out here. That's
why I'm not on this all-White or all Black shit. I'm on this all-real or
all fake shit with people, whatever color you are. Because niggaz will
do you. I mean, there's some [foul] niggaz out there [in the streets];
the same niggaz that did Malcolm X, the same niggaz that did Jesus
Christ- every brother ain't a brother. They will do you. So just because
it's Black, don't mean it's cool. And just because it's White don't mean
it's evil.
We
are in the midst of a very dangerous, non-productive, self-destructive
civil war. And it's not just rap shit. It's ideals. And this rap shit is
just bringin' it to a head. The East Coast believe one thing, and the
West Coast believer one thing. The East Coast got one way of life, the
West Coast got another way of life, it always co-existed. We're coming
to the turn of the century where we gotta mash together. But we can only
do it one way, one style. And that's what we're trying to figure out
now, and I think the world is watching that.
Imperfection
is inherited, therefore we all sin, but fighting the war of sin is the
greatest war of all because we all die in the end no matter how hard we
fight.
I
never thought I was the best rapper the best nothing'. I think I'm the
realist nigga out there.
If
you walked by a street and you was walking a concrete and you saw a rose
growing from concrete, even if it had messed up petals and it was a
little to the side you would marvel at just seeing a rose grow through
concrete. So way is it that when you see some ghetto kid grow out of the
dirtiest circumstance and he can talk and he can sit across the room and
make you cry, make you laugh, all you can talk about is my dirty rose,
my dirty stems and how am leaning crooked to the side, u can't even see
that I've come up from out of that
I
don't bang for the color or the land. I bang for the principles and for
the honor. I'm bangin' for the Westside- this is in my heart, this is
how I feel.
Can't
nobody touch me right now. Maybe next month all of this will be over.
But this month I'm takin' every movin' target out.
To
me, I feel that my game is strong. I feel as thought I'm a shining
prince, just like Malcolm, and I feel that all of us are shining
princes, and if we live like princes, then whatever we want can be ours.
Anything.
My
music is not for everyone. It's only for the stong-willed, the [street]
soldiers music. It's not like party music- I mean, you could gig to it,
but it's spiritual. My music is spiritual. It's like Negro spiituals,
except for the fact that I'm not saying 'We shall Overcome.' I'm saying
that we are overcome.
And
the raps that I'm rappin to my community shouldn't be filled with rage?
They shouldn't be filled with same attrocities that they gave me? The
media they don't talk about it, so in my raps I have to talk about it,
and it seems foreign because there's no one else talking about it.
If
you know in this hotel room they have food every day and I knock on the
door. Every day they open tha door to let me see tha party, let me see
that they throwin' salami, throwin' food around telling me there's no
food. Every day. I'm standing outside tryin to sing my way in- "We
are weak, please let us in. We're week, please let us in." After
about a week tha song is gonna change to, "We're hungry, we need
some food." After two, three weeks it's like "Give me some of
tha food! I'm breakin down tha door." After a year it's like,
"I'm pickin' the lock, comin' through the door blastin." It's
like, "I'm hungry." You reached your level, you don't want any
more. We asked ten years ago, we were askin' with the Panthers, we were
askin' in the Civil Rights Movement. Now those who were askin' are all
dead or in jail, wo what are we gonna do? And we shouldn't be angry!?
My
raps are a decision, rabble rousing, spiritual, like gospel music. I
don't want to dance. We have so many things to deal with, we need to
talk straight up and down.
I
don't advocate senseless violence of any human being. I'm the one who's
been beat down. But I will not be a victim again.
If
we really are saying that rap is an art form, then we got to be more
responsible for our lyrics. If you see everybody dying because of what
you are saying, it dont matter that you didnt make them die, it just
matters that you didnt save them.
But
I see now that whether I show up for work or not, the evil forces are
going to beat me. They're going to come 100 percent, so if I dont be 100
percent pure-hearted, I'm going to lose. And thats why I'm losing.
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