Quotes About Culture

I think what sets a New York rapper apart from other rappers from other places is just being from New York.

You know how there's all these rappers like Mike D and King T and Ice T and Cool C or something like that? Well, on Mayberry, on 'Andy Griffith,' they had Aunt B.

Rappers are the white authors of our generation. They know me, my language, my codes, my family, my block.

I would not consider myself to be a quote unquote real New York rapper. I don't even like New York rappers.

Whatever rappers wear is cool to people.

I actually love the 'rappers look,' with the saggy pants and oversized clothes. It's very deliberate.

There are not many people that I respect more than rappers. I'm a huge fan of hip hop. It's incredible, one of the most influential things to me. It takes real genius to be able to do well. It's a very deep art form.

Ninety percent of the general public aren't gangstas, so all of the rappers aren't going to be gangstas.

I started listening to rap music in 2012 or something, because that was when I started becoming friends with American people, and they showed me rappers to listen to. I actually started listening to Macklemore a lot. He's the first rapper I started listening to.

I used to really like Method Man and Redman for some reason. And Fabolous. A lot of New York rappers, too. Cam'ron. Jim Jones. Hurricane Chris.

I listen to most South Florida rappers.

I notice, a lot of white rappers sometimes, they'll feel like they have to be, like, almost aggressive.

Usually when you hear about rappers in Asia, they always try to be like gangsters and stuff like that and I don't get it.

I was into hip-hop, growing up early, so I loved Run DMC, LL Cool J, rappers.

What Jazzy Jeff and rappers like him talk about is phony stuff. They're not into street raps, into telling what's really happening out there. They're talking about what the white world and the white kids can identity with.

Quite a lot of the American rappers will be a bit confused by the humor and a bit lost. But I think you have to give people the benefit of the doubt.

I prefer rappers who have something intelligent to say.

I don't like rap music at all. I don't think it's music. It's just a beat and rapping.

I'm influenced by like, 50 Cent and Chief Keef 'cause they were rapping about the same things I was living.

I can't look at TV without seeing something that's been influenced by rap. Even commercials for cereal. When I was small, I was a fan of cartoon characters - now the cartoon characters are rapping!

I started rapping before anybody had ever bought a car from it. It was truly about the art form and the culture, more so than now, where it's a successful way to make money. Back then you had to be doing it because you liked it.

I first started rapping when I heard the Sugarhill Gang in 1979, when I was 11 years old in seventh grade.

I'm rapping in English but in an African way. I'm not trying to sound like an American.

I was rapping in 1939. It's old. The roots are complex. And kids don't know.