Quotes from Redman

I like Kendrick as an artist. He's witty and he's smart when he's spitting in his lyrics. And he's crafty.

I highly respect Eminem. I rank him up there with Jay Z, Biggie and Nas.

I'm an artist, not a rapper... so my musical genres and library is way beyond the normal rapper.

I always try and think about what the 'hood would say when I do things.

You know, if an actor or, say, a basketball player writes a rhyme, it doesn't mean he's a rapper. You got to put in time. I don't say I'm an actor.

Our career wasn't built on putting out hot singles.

I will not be doing any more sitcoms, unless it's my own or a movie or I'm directing.

I was always self-sufficient even when I was with Def Jam.

Now when I first heard EPMD's first joint 'You Gots to Chill' and later 'So Whatcha Sayin'?' I said, 'I can do this!'

When you work for a company you always, well I know, I try to give advice to young kids and other peers that when you work for a company you just don't want to be an employee, you want to be an asset.

When I appeared in EPMD's 'Hardcore' song and video that was just crazy. Def Jam had these little virals back then on VHS tape. Q-Tip was another very important person to my career. He had me in A Tribe Called Quest's 'Scenario' video when I was first coming out.

I was always doing an independent kind of move while I was still with a label. They just stamped it.

I'm my own label.

I'm not lookin' to go platinum or triple platinum.

Long as I live large, life will be luxury, Ladies in Lamborghinis...love is like luck to me.

Being from the same umbrella as Jay-Z, I'm not political, but I'm sure whatever he's going to do with the NFL, he's going to branch out and open more doors for other players and for us to get a better understanding of the NFL.

We know Uncle George directly, so he gives us music to sample, all we gotta do is tell him directly and we can use it.

I smacked her, cracked her, put her in a full nelson.

I am a Wu-Tang member and Method Man, he been a Def Squad member way before I was a Wu member. I was like a Wu member but I wasn't official.

My man slangs rocks like up the block, 143RD and Amsterdam by the smoke shop

Negativity lives in rap. That's what it's built on. That's where the money circulates and generates from - negativity.

There's no difference between rocking in front of a crowd or rocking in front of a camera.

I like staying in the hood.

The difference between Reggie Noble and Redman is that this 'Reggie Noble' album is more conceptual. It got concepts on it, it got auto-tune on it, it got a pop record on it. I had fun on it.