I was always talking about what I could and would do, and you would always make rhymes about the competion even though we werent thinking about competition.
Some of the free lunch programs were still goin' on - based on the last leg of the Black Panther Party.
I can appreciate that on one side, but we have to remember that the system is designed corruptly, and works against us, so you cant convict those who can benefit from the system, because its not neccesarily their fault.
In Manhattan, and its true on some level till this day; its a whole different mentality from the Bronx, Brooklyn and Queens, which I didn't know at the time - because you basically just know your neighborhood.
My romantically favorite era is 78, 79 listening to Grandmaster Flash and the Furious 4, the live tapes, echo chamber and break beats.
We heard later through the grapevine that we were being compared to the Furious 5, and because of that we were getting feedback that they were saying that we werent all that, that we were copying them... blah blah blah.
I never ever ran from the Ku Klux Klan, and I shouldn't have to run from a black man.Collection: Running
The lack of facts holds you back. The odds are stacked against a weak mind.Collection: Education
Following rulers instead of prophets, the wicked can rule you, but the knowledge can stop it.Collection: Wicked
I stayed away from drugs, I never smoked a pipe. When I wanna get high, I smoke the mic. I never did white lines, I only write lines, and I ain't sniffin' nothing but the vapors from hype rhymes.Collection: Writing
Any man without a woman is incomplete, and vice-versa she's obsolete.Collection: Men
Learn your past, find your path.Collection: Education
The five senses are all correlated, the sixth and seventh is how you elevate it.Collection: Inspirational
Lust is weak desire. A woman without a good head on her shoulders is nothing but a piece of meat.Collection: Sex
For the weak who seek power it'll bring, infallible the power, knowledge is king.Collection: Education
Now you're selling out, the devil sold a dream and you bought it without thinking about. How the beast will decrease the brain wave, with material thoughts from the crib to the grave.Collection: Dream
You better wake up before it's too late, or they'll be doing your makeup down at the coroner's place.Collection: Makeup
Acts of the devil revealed and reveled, designed to recline the mind to lower level.Collection: Evil
Your mouth smells like my jock strap.Collection: Friendship
I'm on a higher plane with brain with a flame, feel the fire, desire the same.Collection: Inspirational
Evil feeds off a source of apathy, weak in the mind, and of course you have to be. Less than a man, more like a thing, no knowledge you're nothing, knowledge is king.Collection: Song
Getting high off life is more than enough, and peer pressure ain't peer pressure when a boy is tough.Collection: Boys
I don't write, I build a rhyme.Collection: Writing
Pharoahe Monch is like an eloquent linguistics professor moonlighting as a rhyme serial killer terrorist, challenging the listeners' I.Q. while daring him or her to keep up.Collection: Challenges
Raise your hands in the air, pump your fists, and solemnly swear to rock the truth, the whole truth, and nothing but the truth.Collection: Air
You're young and dumb and quick at the tongue.Collection: Friendship
LL's a laughing stock, cause I bit that ass to the last stop. I watched you fall like Hitler fell, and now your down to a broken L.Collection: Fall
Once you understand that there's a spiritual math, add soul to the science and subtract the riff-raff. 24-7-365, cause 9 to 5 ain't alive.Collection: Spiritual
In the street, your mouth's a beak, big like a bird, and your future's bleak.Collection: Reality
I was thinking as I bent over to receive my injection, next time I'm gonna use protection.Collection: Sex
A lot of the old-school artists didn’t even respect what’s being called freestyle now... any emcee coming off the top of the head wasn’t really respected. The sentiment was emcees only did that if they couldn’t write. The coming off the top of the head rhymer had a built-in excuse to not be critiqued as hardCollection: Writing