Love, Lust & Other Sh*t

Quotes from Lil B’s Lecture at New York University:

“If you feel compelled to say something from your heart, please do.”

“I met a 70 year old man at a gas station. I asked him, ‘Whats changed since you were young?’ He said, ‘Your attitude.’ And that was deep!”

“Nobody asked to be born. Life is hard. Kinda.”

“You can have a million stones thrown at you, and still be positive.” -Concerning the viral video of him getting knocked out

“Just cause somebody wants to fight you for no reason, you can forgive that person.”

“Embrace yourself. Embrace your health.”

“I’m the first rapper to adopt a tabby cat. You know I adopted it straight from the ASPCA, you feel me?”

“Man, am I walking weird? Something’s in my butt.”

“Shouts out to everyone who’s genuinely here for learning and love.”

“I looked up what ‘black’ means online, and it means something like ‘coal.’ And I don’t look like coal, man.” -Concerning race

“I know why people don’t trust people - there’s a lot of mean bad people out here.”

“20 years from now, we’re gonna be like, ‘Man, remember when we did that?’”

“There’s a lot of people… who don’t value how blessed life is, how beautiful it is to be alive.”

“The secret to life is to look at everybody like they’re a baby” -At this point, he lies on the table and pretends to be a baby

“Every person you meet, look at them like a golden, million dollar baby… We’re just little baby insects or mammals or something.”

“I was having these big ant problems in my house.”

“Seeing these ants and studying them and respecting them was like damn, they’re in their own community too.”

“We can’t understand what they’re telling each other, but one day we will. I’m trying.” -Concerning the ants

“What are we? What do y’all think we are? Yeah, mammals. Does anyone have any proof what we are?”

“Hey, real talk, everybody make sure you wear seatbelts, it’ll save your life.”

“If I call you “bruh,” it’s everybody.”

“Do you, be yourself one hundred and one thousand percent.”

“‘Based’ means that you have somebody that you can trust, and you don’t have to know them.”

“I go to sleep at the end of the day, I’m like ‘Mehhh, I’m history, I’m making history, and I’m honest.’”

“Honesty. Integrity. Loyalty. Compassion. Friendship.”

“Test your friends: see who really loves you.”

”I’ve known this person since I was young, but he’s a douche, but I’ma still be his friend.”

“I feel like Michael, Michael Jackson.”

“I woulda came up here in a suit so y’all could take me seriously, but uh…”

“How lucky we are to have this structure. Who built this? Tell me who built this building please.” -Concerning religion

“Listen to the voices in your head, don’t ignore them. Don’t deny the voices in your head neither.”

“You look at yourself in the mirror, you’re like ‘EWWW.’ I look at myself in the mirror, I’m like, ‘HOW?’”

“Shouts out to Jay-Z though, bruh. Shouts out to Jay-Z, ya feel me?”

“We’re all about to die somewhere, remember that. Be ready.”

“Wash your hands, wash your hands. I wash my hands all the time.”

“Congratulations to everyone getting here safely man, I tell you. I’m like, ‘Man, I got from point A to point B safely.’”

“I thank my car for getting me here safely. I’m Buick’d up. I’m pure thug Toyota whatever.” -Concerning the automotive industry

“What happened to humans? Everybody’s thinking about capital gains!” -Concerning capitalism

“Salute to the generation that all our kids are gonna be friends.”

“I’m gonna have a place like a city where you can come and everybody is on the same wavelength of positivity. Everybody in here can get a grill. Everybody in here can get the gold teeth.”

“I didn’t just become a happy person - I had to train myself. I lied to myself at first.”

“We all are searching in life to find out, how are we going to serve humanity.”

“I’m ready to die for the humans, I’m ready to die for the positivity.”

“Hey, bruh. Stop messing with the earth, bruh.”

“I’m like, “Whoa hey, get that oil out the ocean. Whoa hey.”

“I’m not even littering. If I throw this trash right here… this is some animal that’s gonna be trapped in it.”

“People call me the Based God out of respect. I am not the Based God, the Based God is better than me.”

“Success is on the outside. I live a life of personal excellence.”

“At the end of the day, personal excellence is what we strive for, because that’s in yourself.”

“I have no pride, so I can be under as well as be on top.”

“I’m unsigned. I have no record label behind me. When you see everything I do, this is me. This is love.”

“There are a lot of industry predators, sexual predators, that’s a touchy subject.”

“You can’t write down love.”

“Somebody looks different than you, admire them, stare at them, and have a light heart.”

“Be you, the ‘Anything Possible’ generation.”

Student: “Did you plan the memes, the videos and everything?”

Lil B: “The people made me.”

“Protect Lil B. Protect the family. Protect the Based God.”

“This is gonna be some garage punk. This is gonna be for the rebels… Look out for the Lil B rock album, ‘California Boy!’” -Concerning the rock album he will be releasing