There are people who curse worse than me and want to hide it all, but I ain't no hypocrite.
Bushwick Bill
Poverty brings people to drastic measures and that's what the hardcore gangsta rap scene is about. It's called freedom of expression. People should be allowed to express what they've been through, what they've been able to familiarize themselves with.
I'd rather be hated for who I am than loved for who I am not. Straight up like that.
I guess it's easier to bash rap artists than to talk about the country's real problems, such as the AIDS crisis, poverty, the cost of education, crime or the gun-toting white supremacist militias.
The truth can't be stopped.
Fame will make you crazy.
You can't candy-coat an unsweetened world. But you can get together and make it a better place to live.
I have no hatred for people I don't know.
We'd rather be hated for what we are than loved for what we're not.
The rude awakening I got was that this country can determine the fate of anyone by using propaganda on a public that is hungry for lies.
In '84 there was Raheem, Slim Jukebox, and Sir Rap-A-Lot. Those were the first three members of the Geto Boys with DJ Ready Red. By '85 it was Prince Johnny C, Slim Jukebox, Bushwick Bill, and DJ Ready Red. By '89 it was Scarface, Willie D, Bushwick Bill, and Ready Red.
I've never had a big personality. I'm an introvert unless I've been drinking or something.
I understand witchcraft being from the islands. You can't be from the Caribbeans and say that you don't know voodoo or don't know about it. Or that you don't know someone who has practiced it. It's just that in my family we never did. People in extreme impoverished situations if they ain't reaching out to God, they reaching out to the other side.
I've never got the vibe that they would do a gospel song. 'Cause when they talking about doing another Geto Boys album I said I would do it if I could rap like I'm rapping on my gospel album, I didn't get a whole lot of cosigning on that from all the political parties concerned.
I really like Kendrick Lamar. I'm still a Talib Kweli fan, Lupe Fiasco, Mos Def, Common Sense - people who say things that are relevant to everyday life. I don't pay attention to artists that talk about throwing money away and the car that they drive.
My music is being condemned strictly for publicity and votes.
You can't get around it. Life is pain, and pain is everywhere.
I'm not trying to write raps for people in three-piece suits sitting behind big oak desks. I'm writing for people who can't speak for themselves and about things we see every day.
It's okay for the President to start a war in Iraq, but it's not okay for me to talk about what I see around me in the ghetto.
Because I'm short, I have a low center of gravity and I know how to use my weight. If I don't want nobody to pick me up, they can't. They'll catch a hernia trying.
If people believe that the Geto Boys really do stuff like on 'Mind of a Lunatic,' they must also believe there's a real Freddie Krueger and a real Micheal Myers.
I noticed when most celebrities pass, they really don't have nothing set up for their children.
I kept watching all the different 'Child's Play' sagas, right? Then all of a sudden I decided, 'He's short, I'm short. What a better concept?' It fits. If I can't make the song, why make the movies?
They have horror stuff in the Bible. Like if you were to read Deuteronomy 28, that talks about the blessings and curses of God.
My fans know to treat my lyrics like a T-bone steak - you know you can't chew on it unless you cut the fat off.
I realized we're all walking around asleep, intellectually comatose, dead to the facts.
Sometimes we don't realize that the government is for the people by the people.
A lot of people don't want to vote because they believe the negatives rather than the positives about the outcome of their decisions about the sheriff or councilman or the board of education in their community.
We should be involved in the decision-making about our own lives, and not just sitting around being the living dead.
We want to make everybody mad enough to look at the ghetto right in their own state, not just to look at the middle-class and the rich areas.
We were just expressing stuff that happens in the ghetto, just being like reporters.
I want to let all black women know I have no disrespect toward them at all.
This society, it hurts me, man.
It's not fair that teachers are getting low income to where they get frustrated to where they don't even want to teach.
It's not fair that everybody has to be segregated.
I want artists to tell their story and share their life experience.
My contract with Rap-A-Lot was never-ending and had me working for everything against royalties.
I've got a family to feed and I've got to work to feed them.
All I really want is to be left alone.
Party anthems and party things aren't what people need when they're the most oppressed.
It's not like I'm afraid of dying. I know what it's like on the other side.
I just want people to be aware so that when they set dreams or goals, they're healthy enough to fulfill and live.
I still feel the pain from the fact I've got a bullet in my brain.
The world has been broken into millions of pieces, but that doesn't mean we shouldn't strive.
If you give up your dreams you die.
I still believe there's going to be peace at last - but not until Jesus Christ returns. Until then, Armageddon is in full effect, and we have to work on preserving ourselves instead of destroying ourselves.
I'm like a Mr. Mom. I get up and help out, getting the milk together and changing diapers. I've even learned to mix baby formulas and stuff like that.
I'm not any more sexist, racist or violent than the world around me.
We all share the planet, the rainbows share the sky, why can't we all share the same dream? And rap about what we see?
I am a goofy person at heart.
