Quotes About Influence

The mission of Patrick Henry College was to attract and cultivate academic stars from the ranks of home-schooled evangelicals, then send them off on graduation day to 'shape the culture and take back the nation,' in the words of a common home-schooling rallying cry.

My dad used to play old dancehall records - Cutty Ranks, Ranking Dread, Michael Prophet, these type of dudes.

Growing up, flute riffs was big in rap back then. It's what I listened to.

Lil B opened up the floodgates for Odd Future, and now rap has a huge Internet culture.

My brother is 10 years older than me, so whatever he listened to is what I listened to, and it was all rap.

I'm huge into '90s rap. It's my jam.

I feel like I influence more than just rap.

We are a metal band, period. To me, the 'nu' part infers some sort of a rap influence.

My character is meant to know nothing about rap, and not to like it very much, but I know about it, because my kids make me listen to it. There's some rap I do like very much. I like Eminem, Blackalicious.

The rap game without me would be like woofers without bass.

Rap actually took root in the Negro community, and then in the Hispanic community, long before it impacted on the larger American community as a whole.

David Bowie's my favorite musician. I love him above all, but I'm really into rap a lot right now.

I still to this day get the most inspiration from rap lyrics.

If the KKK was smart enough, they would've created gangsta rap because it's such a caricature of black culture and black masculinity.

Rap is supposed to be about keeping it real and not relinquishing your roots in the community. Without that, it's just posturing. Somebody who claims to speak for the 'hood don't need no private jet.

It's not only about the rap lyric. Today, people are buying you as a person.

It's funny: I don't listen to too much rap. I don't listen to too much older hip-hop. If I do, it's Ja Rule.

I would say I'm a fan of late '90s to early 2000s rap. That's where I get all my inspiration from.

The day Obama got into office, rap was less important because Obama gave kids an alternative. But will rap ever go away? No. There will always be a need for poets.

Our music attracts the people that we rap about and make music about, and they come out and actually do it.

I was a huge fan of '90s hip-hop, and a lot of what they got their music from was funk and soul records. They just, like, take a clip of that and rap over it because, you know, that was just kind of what was up.

I was about nine years old when I first heard Wu-Tang's 'C.R.E.A.M.' Before that, I didn't know anything about rap or hip-hop. I was just into Korean pop.

Ever since I was a little kid, I would always rap. I just loved it. But when I really got into it seriously was when I saw 'Kill Bill.'

We want to challenge Marilyn Manson and the rap people with the bad lyrics to write some positive songs.