Don't believe everything you hear on the street.
I spend a fair amount of time chatting to black cab drivers in London.
If anyone wants to know what the definition of 'dope' means, it's: 'Definition of Public Enemy.'
People walking down the street would just say 'Ball don't lie.' I kinda feel like Bobby McFerrin, the mastermind behind 'Don't worry, be happy.'
I make up many words but we can go on for forever about slang words that E-40 created. That has always been one of my things since was youngster. I have always being creative with my words.
Slang is the speech of him who robs the literary garbage carts on their way to the dumps.
Cough up a lung where I'm from marcy son, aint nothin nice
I don't really know what 'respect' means. That sounds like something a kid in the street says after he's getting ready to take your coat and your shoes.
My songs have some street talk in them, but that's the way I talk and the way a lot of people I know talk.
I think it's just funny, the things that come out of people's mouths, whether it's a politician, whether it's an average person on the street - and to be honest with you, sometimes these politicians sound like average people on the street.
I hear it all the time in the street: 'It's the crisp bloke.'
No gossip ever dies away entirely, if many people voice it: it, too, is a kind of divinity.
My first words was thug for life and papa pass the mack
When I was in Milwaukee, I would go into this sneaker shop near my mom's salon and chop it up with the older heads about music. At school, I would make drum noises on the table so much that I would always get suspended.
The final lesson a writer learns is that everything can nourish the writer. The dictionary, a new word, a voyage, an encounter, a talk on the street, a book, a phrase learned.
I spent my whole life as a writer talking to just the average guy in Los Angeles and Latin America, talking to working people.
The name Hot Boys was based on a time in New Orleans where if you were really doing something or if the police were looking for you, people would be like, 'He hot. That boy hot.'
I never notice what is said about me. I am credited with things I have never done, and abused for them. It would be idle to attempt to contradict newspaper talk and street rumors.
Campaigning means talking to people in the street, it's important.
Slang is a language that rolls up its sleeves, spits on its hands and goes to work.
What's good in the hood?
I've never been the battle guy that people perceive me as. I don't even want to battle. I take it to the people, man. I say what I got to say. You know what I'm saying? I'm like the guy that has the gun and shoots you when you try to rob him, you know? I don't really pull out the inches and try to shoot the brothers.
We need to demystify - get out and speak to strangers on the street.
I don't dab, bro.
If I'm speaking to the streets and for the streets, they gon' respond. I don't even be thinking about blowing up.
