Quotes About Community

I was probably 15 when I started going to the studio with the older cats in my neighborhood. They heard me rap outside one time; I was just freestyling. And they invited me to the studio. It's good when you're accepted, no matter what crowd. That's the first step of believing you can do whatever you feel like putting your mind to.

Highbridge - everybody rap in Highbridge; everyone grew up rappin' or playing basketball.

Hackney gets a bit of a bad rap, but it's the only place I've ever lived that felt like a community. I know my neighbours.

I don't compose rap songs or party numbers. I only compose folk.

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.

Odd Future's like a network as opposed to like a rap group.

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.

That's why I make mixtapes. That's why I work with Don Cannon; that's why i work with Big Sean. Even though I don't rap, I got love and acceptance in that community, and that's something that I really take seriously and hold close to my heart.

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

Rap, to me, is communal. It's something you do with your friends. So becoming a member of a group was the dream.

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

From the beginning of my rap career, since I was seen and heard, I always had a store.

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.

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

Hong Kong needs population growth to cope with a rapidly ageing population.

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

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

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

I don't have any beef with any rapper.

One of my homeboys from my neighborhood had actually taught me how to rap. He was the rapper and we would all go over to his house. It would be like 10 or 12 of us in there and he'd write everybody's rap in the house and would give everybody four or eight bars.

I'm from Atlanta, but I don't really consider myself an 'Atlanta rapper.'

Yes, I love Chicago in many ways, but I'm definitely not trying to fit, you know, the drill Chicago rapper.

I enjoy female rappers, not because they're female but because I can connect to them more.

A lot of times, when people say hip-hop, they don't know what they're talking about. They just think of the rappers. When you talk about hip-hop, you're talking about the whole culture and movement. You have to take the whole culture for what it is.