Quotes About Culture

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.

In my house, I don't just always listen to rap.

By no means am I excusing homophobic rap lyrics, but as a product of the same environments that birthed hip-hop, I fully understand why those lyrics existed.

When you're part of hip-hop culture but you're a Christian, people want you to be either-or. Or they'll create a category for you, like, 'Oh, gospel rap!'

'Pinata' is a great rap record for jazz fans.

I'm trying to bring gangster rap back to the forefront, like in the early '90s.

It's all about the flow and the beat. Rap is more than just music now.

I have a song that's called 'Rap Dreams, Hoop Dreams'. Besides education, everybody's got hoop dreams from day one in rap. Rap, sports, music have so much of an impact on the world.

I'm a fan of hip-hop. I'm a fan of rap, so anything new that's happening, I'm hip to it.

Everybody knows with rap artists, if you can't go to the hood, it's almost like you're not authentic, even if you're a dope artist that's respected.

The whole world has changed much since the '80's. In the united States, rap music and country music dominate radio and that certainly wasn't the case in the early '80's.

Look at Pusha-T. He makes a certain type of rap music. 'Daytona' is that on the highest level.

I've always been a fan of rap music.

No, I can't do rap music!

I am obsessed with rap music - it's such a big part of my life.

Rap music was and is, for me, everything.

Rap music was a savior to me.

I love rap music.

I don't even really like rap music.

What's more American than young people speaking their mind over things they had to create over pots and pans and electronically because music was taken out of schools? What's more American than making something out of nothing? What's more gospel than rap music?

When people say to me 'what do you think of rap music?' my answer is there's no such thing. There's rap and there's music.

I can't listen to rap music; it's not my thing. They say that they're the modern poets: of course they are, but it's not for me.