Prodigy

You gotta be careful and just learn from your mistakes.

Growing up in bad neighborhoods, you see and experience a lot.

Nobody's unique. Everybody copies off of each other. Everybody wears the same type of stuff. Nobody's an individual anymore.

People of all races need to come together to control our government and run a giant comb through it so we can see the filth that comes out.

The NYPD is just a branch of corruption connected to a giant, corrupt tree called the United States government.

When I was locked up, I went through a big personal change with my attitude and spiritual, everything. I went through some major changes locked up.

Our style of hip-hop, our style of beats, our style of rhymes - you gonna give us burn. We gonna get our burn that we deserve.

You have to find a sound that reflects what our souls feel like inside, how our bodies actually feel. That's why we made our own beats. We couldn't find a producer who could give us the feeling to match our lyrics.

It was the camaraderie and the friendships, too, that really drew me to Queensbridge.

When you are young and rebellious, you don't want to be in the house. You want to be on the block.

Mobb Deep's music, we represent poverty. That's what made us. That's who made us. That's who brought us up.

A sickle-cell attack would creep up slowly in my ankles, legs, arms, back, stomach, and chest. Sometimes my lips and tongue turned numb, and I knew I was going into a crisis.

I was a very serious child who never got to enjoy life to the fullest like a normal, healthy kid.

Extreme pain to extreme pleasure has been the story of my entire life.

I used to be cold and emotionless. I believe the disease I was born with made me that way.

Obama represents one-world government, a.k.a. Neocolonialism. Presidents don't change anything locally - they only deal with foreign policy.

'Dragon's Lair' was real ill.

'Mortal Kombat' was an ill game. I would always be either Reptile or Scorpion. Those dudes were ill. We used to stay up all night playing.

I like any shoot-'em-up game with guns in it.

When I was a kid, I used to love to play 'Dig Dug.' It was, like, this little dude, where he digs in the dirt and makes tunnels.