"Only God can judge me." "With all my fans I got a family again."
"All I'm trying to do is survive and make good out of the dirty, nasty, unbelievable lifestyle that they gave me."
"Biggie came at a time just like Hitler did with the Germans."
"America wants its respect."
"All the stuff I say in my rhymes I say because of how I grew up. So instead of going to a pyschiatrist, I got a kids' group that deals with the problems a younger generation is going through."
"Death Row East is gonna be a personification of what we did on the West Side. We gonna prove once that all these people talking 'bout a East Coast West Coast war."
"Don't change on me. Don't extort me unless you intend to do it forever.
"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."
"Even though I'm innocent of the charge they gave me, I'm not innocent in terms of the way I was acting. I had a job to do and I never showed up."
"Even if they give me the maximum sentence, that's still my job."
"Everybody raps. We rap to make money. We do business. Ain't no other record company out there that sold as many records as we did."
"Every female wanna come up to me and show me how much they're not attracted to me... these minority women... they're the only women I can get cause everyone else is scared of me."
"From now on, it's not going to be a strictly black thing with me. I apologized to Quincy Jones for the stuff I said about him and his wives."
"You never know what's going on in somebody's mind. There's a lot of pressure on someone growing up. You have to watch it."
"You just can't be calling us fakers and pretenders and non-creative and say we can't freestyle."
"You can't disrespect the love. You can't disrespect the peace treaty."
"Whether I show up for work or not, the evil forces are going to be at me. They're going to come 100 percent."
"When you do rap albums, you got to train yourself. You got to constantly be in character."
"When I dis y'all, it's not because I'm ungrateful, it's because I'm nervous. I'm paranoid, I just got out of jail. I've been shot, cheated, lied and framed."
"When the charge first came up, I hated black women. Then, going to trial, I started seeing the black women that was helping me. It's mostly black female guards. They treat me with human respect."
"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."
"We already run these streets out here. We got the ways to make them use their talents to the maximum affect. And thats what it's about."
"We are together as black men-they over there, we over here. If we really gonna live in peace, we all can't be in the same room. Yellow M&M's don't move with green M&M's."
"Thug Life to me is dead."
"Tupac the son of the Black Panther, and Tupac the rider. Those are the two people inside of me. I was raised off those ideals."
"They thought they were just gonna make millions and there wasn't gonna be no problems? You wanna be in the rap game, hustle for it just like I had to do."
"This ain't no game. If this was chess, we'd be yelling checkmate three years ago."
"There's nobody in the business strong enough to scare me."
"The first two days in prison, I had to go through what life is like when you've been smoking weed for as long as I have and then you stop. I didn't know myself."
"The only
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