Quotes About Innovation

You've got these guys that have this fresh, street, hip-hop country that sells a zillion. Keep doing that. I'll keep doing my stuff. We'll see how it goes.

Hip-hop was started on groups.

I think people just have to realize that music grows, and hip-hop evolves. I mean, everything evolves.

I want people to look at me in the future and feel that there's this Asian hip-hop artist who's fresh and hot.

I can do every type of music, but hip-hop was my way into the game.

Hip-hop has taken a lot of different routes throughout the years, man. I've been around since 1986.

We need a few more Kanyes, people that's really passionate about hip-hop and who keep it alive.

When I first played some Coltrane-type stuff on the 'Pimp a Butterfly' sessions, Kendrick got it immediately. 'I want it to sound like it's on fire,' he'd say. That's the kind of common ground that the best jazz and the best hip-hop have.

I think that people have been claiming hip-hop as being dead since the moment it started.

I'm not in that state of mind that I was back in '86 - hip-hop is not in that state of mind that it was back in '86. Times change. I change.

I think it's impossible for hip-hop to be a dying art form.

Hip-hop is not one thing!

I admire hip-hop artists because they drop so much music.

I plan on making my mark on the legacy of hip-hop, period, but also in Atlanta production because there's a lot of history there.

I've never made R&B. I've never made gospel. I've never made hip-hop - I don't think I'm going to, but I just want to keep challenging myself.

There was no hip-hop before Afrika Bambaataa.

I used to do this one club called New York Sound Factory where I played house, hip-hop, and dancehall. I was one of the first DJs in the South to play everything.

It's whatever - people like me and Dre are music people, so we're beyond just hip-hop. We're purists. Not everybody who makes beats is a purist.

I'm a hippie child of the '60s. What drives me crazy about mass media entertainment is that it's so often devoid of any ideas.

We hire people who are freaks. They don't have social lives.

I don't make money doing my podcast. I've learned that people want to hire creative people who are already doing something when they approach them.

When you can't afford to have the best, you hire the young who are going to be the best.

I think in general, people who aren't themselves entrepreneurs are often more risk averse. And I think you see this dynamic a lot with entrepreneurial people who lead a company, which is that they hire people who complement them.

If somebody's in the community doing cool stuff, we'll hire them.