America Wants Its Respect.

Even As A Little Seed, I Could See His Plan For Me. Stranded On Welfare, Another Broken Family.

The Thing That Bothers Me Is That It Seems Like All The Sensitive Stuff I Write Just Goes Unnoticed . . . The Media Doesn't Get Who I Am At All. Or Maybe They Just Can't Accept It. It Doesn't Fit Into Those Negative Stories They Like To Write. I'm The Kind Of Guy Who Is Moved By A Song Like Don Mclean's "vincent," That One About Van Gogh. The Lyric On That Song Is So Touching. That's How I Want To Make My Songs Feel. Take "dear Mama" - I Aimed That One Straight For My Homies' Heartstrings.

Now Don't You Ever Tell A Lie Just Confide In Me Would You Die 4 Me? Tell Me Baby Would You Ride 4 Me?

I Want There To Be A Life For The Street Element. Instead Of We Always Getting Shut Out. Instead Of Defenseless, Having Power.

I'm Just As Guilty For Not Doing Anything As I Am For Doing Things. Not With Case (the 1994 Sexual Abuse Conviction), But Just My Life. I Was So Scared Of This Responsibility That I Was Running Away From It. But I See Now That Whether I Show Up For Work Or Not, The Evil Forces Are Going To Be At Me. They're Going To Come 100 Percent.