“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.”

“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.”

“Thug Life to me is dead.”

“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.”