“My mama always used to tell me: 'If you can't find somethin' to live for, you best find somethin' to die for.'”
“There's nobody in the business strong enough to scare me.”
“I worked hard all my life as far as this music business. I dreamed of the day when I could go to New York and feel comfortable and they could come out here and be comfortable.”
“Don't change on me. Don't extort me unless you intend to do it forever.”
“What I learned in jail is that I can't change. I can't live a different lifestyle-this is it. This is the life that they gave and this is the life that I made.”
“I don't have no fear of death. My only fear is coming back reincarnated.”
“If you believe in God, believe in Death Row East.”
“Reality is wrong. Dreams are for real.”
“The only thing that comes to a sleeping man is dreams.”
“If I win and get the money, then the Oakland Police department is going to buy a boys' home, me a house, my family a house, and a Stop Police Brutality Center.”
“With all my fans I got a family again.”
“It's a struggle for every young Black man. You know how it is, only God can judge us.”
“All I'm trying to do is survive and make good out of the dirty, nasty, unbelievable lifestyle that they gave me.”
“It's the game of life. Do I win or do I lose? One day they're gonna shut the game down. I gotta have as much fun and go around the board as many times as I can before it's my turn to leave.”
“Thug Life to me is dead.”
“I just don't know how to deal with so many people giving me that much affection. I never had that in my life.”
“Dre was one of my heros in the music industry. If he's not down for his homeboys, I don't wanna be a part of him or around him.”
“I think I'm a natural-born leader. I know how to bow down to authority if it's authority that I respect.”
“America wants its respect.”
“I'm 23 years old. I might just be my mother's child, but in all reality, I'm everybody's child. Nobody raised me I was raised in this society.”
“It seems like every time you come up something happens to bring you back down.”
“In my mind I'm a blind man doin' time.”
“The only time I have problems is when I sleep.”