“Did you hear about the rose that grew from a crack in the concrete? Proving nature's laws wrong, it learned to walk without having feet. Funny, it seems to by keeping it's dreams; it learned to breathe fresh air. Long live the rose that grew from concrete when no one else even cared.”

“Did you hear about the rose that grew from a crack in the concrete? Proving nature's laws wrong, it learned to walk without having feet. Funny, it seems to by keeping it's dreams; it learned to breathe fresh air. Long live the rose that grew from concrete when no one else even cared.”

“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.”

“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.”

“Don't change on me. Don't extort me unless you intend to do it forever.”

“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.”

“All I'm trying to do is survive and make good out of the dirty, nasty, unbelievable lifestyle that they gave me.”

“My mama always used to tell me: 'If you can't find somethin' to live for, you best find somethin' to die for.'”

“In my mind I'm a blind man doin' time.”

“It seems like every time you come up something happens to bring you back down.”

“With all my fans I got a family again.”

“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.”