Killer Mike quotes

But you can never walk on water if you still fear the sea

Nerve bad like I'm back to sellin' crack again

Fame and money brought some factors I didn't factor in

I feel like a working-class Jay-Z, baby

If Jesus came back, Mother, where you think he'd be?

Probably in these streets with me

The Devil put me on his whipping post

The Lord did not 'low him to whip me

So I went to sleep as free as can be and the next day, my son got a kidney

it is your duty not to burn your own house down for anger with an enemy. It is your duty to fortify your own house, so that you may be a house of refuge in times of organization.

Ronald Reagan was a actor, not at all a factor

Just an employee of the country's real masters

Will I die slain like my king by a terrorist?

Will my woman be Coretta, take my name and cherish it?

It don't matter 'bout our valor if the system say we villains (Bussin' bricks, buss-buss-bussin' bricks now)

It don't matter if you Jamil Al-Amin or Jeffery Williams (Bussin' bricks now, buss-buss-bussin' bricks now)

'Cause yo' enemies the same and they will never see you different (Bussin' bricks, buss-buss-bussin' bricks now)

God will give you everything you want and you get all the good, but you get everything that comes with it

if you want my platform, take your bougie Black ass and get to practicing your bars motherfucker.

You climb one mountain, you get the top of the mountain and you look off like, “Oh shit, it's a bigger mountain to climb,” but you got to climb down that mountain first and go through another valley.

I foregoed the crime and I focused on rhyme

Focused on every word and line

Like a young Cassius Clay in his prime

I was born to talk shit and prove mine, and I'm

Take the King's English, paint pictures so vivid

That the listener will swear to God they lived it

I just be walkin' a tightrope, am I gon' always do right? No

Used to sell grams of that white coke on Ponce de Leon to white folk

Baby mama, I got several, several new hustles, a plethora

Cheddar, cheddar, parmesan, mozzarella, mozzarella

I been po' as Allan Edgar, never been a beggar, beggar

Even when I stood on corners and I served like Roger Federer

In my mind, everybody's sleeping on me. That's what I tell myself to get myself ready.

It is time to beat up prosecutors you don’t like at the voting booth. It is time to hold mayoral offices accountable, chiefs and deputy chiefs.

I’m mad as hell. I woke up wanting to see the world burn yesterday, because I’m tired of seeing black men die.

I just need the junkies and the liars and the theives

I need the pimps, prostitues and pushers out the streets

That's where I'm seeking God cuz that's where he found me

This is jazz, this is funk, this is soul, this is gospel

This is sanctified sex; this is player Pentecostal

Bought a yacht, all the buildings I was trappin' out

Bankhead Seafood, me and T.I. got

I just want to talk about practical stuff about regular people, because I think that our regular lives are amazing, beautiful things.

And they would take our drugs and moneys, as they pick our pockets

I guess that that's the privilege of policin' for some profits

They declared a war on drugs, like a war on terror

But what it really did was let the police terrorize whoever

But mostly black boys, but they would call us "niggas"

And lay us on our belly, while they fingers on they triggers

'Cause slavery was abolished, unless you are in prison

You think I am bullshittin', then read the 13th Amendment

Involuntary servitude and slavery it prohibits

That's why they givin' drug offenders time in double digits

I been looked at, I been followed, I been suspected (Yeah)

Used and abused, I been accused, bitch, I been arrested

And if a nigga know some secrets, bitch, I ain't tellin'

I finally get it, all my haters, they was just jealous

That take that street shit and that scholarship, and run a mall

I'm in attendance at the player's and the mayor's ball