Quotes About Diversity

There's not too many one-producer rap albums. There are lot of one-producer rock albums... and country albums.

There just hasn't been a voice for that normal dude when it comes to rap.

I just like heavy music in general - from heavy rock and heavy metal and heavy rap and heavy everything. I've always been attracted to it.

Most of my influences aren't rap. I love Coldplay.

If we want to mumble rap, we can mumble rap.

I really don't think I have a genre, honestly, 'cause I make such different music even though it is rap.

The rap community know that I'm doing very well. They're embracing me... They like the flavour.

I can rap, play ball, design T-shirts, all that.

One day I'll make a rap song, the next day I'll make a pop song, the next day I'll make a rock song, the next day I'll make R&B. I don't have a pattern.

Growing up people would tell me: 'Yo, you only can do one thing. If you're going to rap, just rap. If you're going to sing, just sing.' It boxed me in. But I just figured out a way to show everything. It's like if you have a job interview, you want to present as many skills as you have.

We're not just three guys in a rap act. We want all sorts of people at our gigs.

Rap music started because they were bored of other music so they created something really new.

I don't even really like rap music.

Before I even started listening to rap music, I was really into metal and punk.

I'll make a song with Rick Rubin, a song with Beyonce, a song with Lenny Kravitz. I just believe in making good music. I'm not trying to section myself off into just making hard-core rap music.

In a certain way, rap music is alternative.

When I was a kid, I don't think I even knew what being gay was, and now it's just part of our culture. It's changing so rapidly right now. It's great.

Mostly I built golf courses the way I played golf, which was left-to-right. But I learned very rapidly that people wanted to see more than just the way I played golf and that I had to balance up what I was doing, right-to-left, left-to-right, etc.

That's the beauty of Mumbai. While some parts have grown rapidly, there are places like Churchgate that have retained their character.

When I came up in hip hop, there was no such thing as a Puerto Rican rapper doing hip hop for many mainstream people, so I was the ship, the captain, and the crew.

I feel like that's what's going to be most respected at the end of the day, that I'm able to do so many different things and become less of a rapper and just more as a musician.

Every person I meet is a rapper, DJ, or makes beats.

Where I'm from in Harlem, everybody look like a rapper.

Mariah Carey, Rihanna, the female rapper Nicki Minaj, my kids - and what do they all have in common? They're all lighter skinned. Do you think that's an accident?