But over here, everybody wanna be better than the next one…They might be fucked up, money-wise, but trust me, them muthafuckas is happy, man. Them niggas in harmony ‘cause they got each other.
Ghostface Killah quotes
- Quotes
- 15
- Lyrics
- 7
- Interviews
- 8
Eight of the 15 lines are interviews (six of them from Stereogum in 2024), and they are about imagery: his mind as a Scorsese world, painting what he sees, turning struggle into art. The 7 lyrics are a mix, from Buck 50, Tone's Rap, Apollo Kids and others. Wit is the biggest theme (5), with craft and struggle (4 each) next. The heaviest line is about gray hairs on the side of his waves.
But for me, personally, you can only manifest joy by letting go of your pain!
Anything worth having is hard to keep
I love you like my coffee so hot and so sweet
So let's, stick it out, so we never regret it
I could forgive the past, but I never forget it
Sometimes I look up at the stars, and analyze the sky
And ask myself was I meant to be here, why?
Since the face been revealed, game got real
Check out the grays on the side of my waves
I grew those on Rikers Island, stressed out, balled up in the cage
Why is the sky blue? Why is water wet?
Why did Judas rat to Romans while Jesus slept?
You can be a gangsta in your frame of mind. If you know how to get money, that’s your gangsta.
I just like to paint, man. Sometimes it's dark and serious, but other times you need those lighter strokes, so you tell a joke.
I videotaped it all in my mind and turned it into art.
When we were 25-year-olds, we had to have the minds of 50-year-olds! We grew up a lot more quickly, because of all the bad things that we saw.
I am a painter. I see it in my mind, I find a way to grasp it, and then I've got to lay it down without holding anything back.
My mind is like a living, breathing Martin Scorsese world, you know? I want the listener to hear the words and my shit to make them feel like it's pure cinema.
She was a jelly to my peanuts, Mars to Venus
The Earth to my sun, moon, and stars, we added up mathematically
It's like I had a bad habit, B
'Cause pimpin' ain't easy but it sure is fun