"..I'm on some life-after-death shit, just comin' off some ready-to-die shit! I'm ready to go all out! If anybody should have a beef wit' that, it's me! I don't give a fuck! I'ma be up in one of dem shit's (a coffin) one day! - Notorious B.I.G., The Source, July 1995
"I'm a bit nervous about all of this. I'm nervous in everything I do. I'm nervous when I try to scoop a chick. It's rejection. That shit's a muthafucka. That's why I try not to put myself in the position of rejection usually, but sometimes I just go all out. All you can do is tell me no - and more than likely you will, 'cause life is filled with no's and broken promises. I'm used to that. Just for that reason, I wanted to put an album out. We can't live in hesitation or fear that will get you killed, take away opportunities. I wanted to do this album for me."
- Jim Jones [The Diplomats], XXL, November 2004
"I know if Wayne is involved with hip-hop for the next 10 years, hip-hop has nothing to worry about."
- Lil Wayne, XXL, November 2004
"I would love to play Whitney Houston. I did approach some people, but they felt that right now isn't the right time to do [the film] it would be my dream role. I think Whitney is an incredible entertainer and a great woman, because of things that are happening in her life right now, a lot of people have forgotten her contribution to the music industry. I want to remind them." - Vivica Fox, Smooth #12
"Monogamy's a great thing once you decide that it's something you want. I've always been more of a Bonnie and Clyde-type nigga than a player with a lot of bitches. I mean, a fly nigga can always catch a lot of broads. That's not a problem. But I never really desired to add that to my image. I would rather have one down bitch. They tell me one down bitch is worth ten funky ho's." - Ice-T, Smooth #12
"Everybody has a plan ... until they get punched in the mouth." - Mike Tyson
"The world is filled with willing people; some willing to work, the rest willing to let them." - Robert Frost
"If you plan to make a success of yourself, you will probably stand alone, because your success will annoy all the other folks who have given up. They have gotten comfortable with the idea that "it can’t be done here, not in our town." So when you start making changes, one of two things could happen: They realize that they have been wrong. They decide that you are wrong. The first option involves fundamental change, hard work and criticism. The second involves no work at all … just more of the same, peppered with sarcastic snips at you."
- Ellen Rohr
"I really can't imagine what it feels like to be a person who doesn't pick his nose. Does all the crap up there just keep building up (assuming the individual doesn't have a cold) until it's clogging up one's nose?"
- Frank N. Furter, ISnoop.Net
"In matters of style, swim with the current; in matters of principle, stand like a rock." - Thomas Jefferson
"If Bin Laden's dead, we need to fire George Bush because he's got us looking for a dead man!"
- Rev Al Sharpton, Open Line, 10-3-04 (shaken in by Butter Roll Stephens)
"That's absurve!" - President Bush, Presidential Debate
(The word was supposed to be 'absurd' - shaken in by Chucktown Chica)
"Hey, hey, hey, hey; smoke weed everyday!" - (shaken in by Deneice)
"Not All Black Skin Is Kin" - Zora Neale Hurston (shaken in by Soulamor)
"Always be you because everyone else is taken." - (shaken in by Chanel Dior)
"I feel I’m Martin Luther King at times. I feel like Malcolm X at times, and I feel like I’m Marvin Gaye at times. All in one. All these feelings have to play their role and do what they do. A lot of times you see me smiling and being peaceful, I’m in MLK mode keeping the peace. Moving things and keeping our people together as one finding a better way other than violence. If you see me with a hundred of my homies mashin, Crippin’ and banging - I’m in my Malcolm X mode. Not giving a fuck because suckers are plotting on me and the air is getting thick. When you see me in a performance mode or at an awards ceremony, I’m feeling like Marvin Gaye spreading my love and connecting with the people. In every part of the world at every moment, I need to flex one of those faces at all times." - Tray Dee of the Eastsidaz (shaken in by Logic)
"If you can't be with the one you love, love the one your with." - (shaken in by tellie)
"It is due to my situation and being smart on my behalf; with me you have to go to the core of it you just can’t crack at the surface. For me at the beginning, I knew I had to get respected at street level first that is with Hip Hop. Once you got it on that street level, then you can take it to places you want to go so people can hear what you want to tell them.Like me just coming out I couldn’t say, "Fight the power," from the gate. The game isn’t ready for a lot of things but you have to make them ready. You have to groom the first album I put the training wheels on them, then I took one of the training wheels off, now it is time to take off all of both of them and push them and let them peddle for themselves." - Beanie Sigel, allhiphop.com (shaken in by D-Smoke)
"It ain't all about being the finest girl in the world or nothing like that. I like a smart, sexy woman.. with an ass like a reindeer. That's just a big booty, man. Look at a reindeer. The butt is up in the air."
- Murphy Lee, Smooth #12
