Quotes About Rap

Hip-hop is huge in Canada, in Australia - everywhere.

I don't bash Cash Money, Birdman, or none of them.

We still have money issues. We will always have them as long as Cash Money is selling anything that has Mannie Fresh on it.

Rap's the only music that they categorize like that. That's one thing that I hate, like, down South rap, or up North rap. Country is just country rather than wherever it's from. R&B, you don't call it Atlanta R&B, you know what I mean. So that's already like a shot at our culture.

I'm not really comfortable with being on songs with cats I don't really know.

I grew up with Chief Keef and Lil Reese. We all lived in the same environment, I went to school with them and everything.

I grew up listening to a lot of Chief Keef, Lil B, all that.

When the Chicago rap scene came about, I listened to all of the upcoming artists like Lil Durk, Chief Keef and G Herbo.

Childish Gambino - him and I are the same age, and I really like him.

I don't want people to love me. I want people to chill and just listen to my music.

Yachty is really quiet when you first meet him, and that was different to me. That's just how he is. He's chill, but he'll talk to you. My first thought when I met him? 'Oh, I could get along with this guy.'

Dudes I work with have to be like-minded to where I just hand them a beat that has a chorus and they can do with them what they gotta do. If they can't do that, I usually don't work with 'em.

We never broke up. As long as I'm living and as long as Chuck D is living, Public Enemy is always going to be alive.

Compton is my city.

My superheroes are Meth, Keith Murray, Busta Rhymes, ODB, Xzibit. The superheroes before us were EPMD, Slick Rick, Rakim.

You have these rap groups talking about 'Fight The Power' and that kind of stuff. What do they mean by that? Fight democracy? Fight the government, the most freest Superpower government in the world? What they need to fight is what's holding them back from getting educated and moving along in life.

To me, the whole thing with the roots of rap music was when the DJ had to supply all the music for the group with two turntables. And the whole criteria of what that DJ would use had nothing to do with what type of band made a record.

The Dallas rap scene is growing, and hopefully we get to a level like Houston - everybody supporting each other, building each other up to be great.

When you get my 'Supreme Clientele,' it is straight bars.

I did a double CD, 'The Element of Surprise,' in 1998. That album went gold.

I was mostly surprised by the rap artists, actually, that were influenced by Sabbath. That was a surprise. But it's very nice and I'm very honored. It's nice to know after 27 years now that what I said in the first place has stuck, and that was the belief in it.

I came from a crew, and to me, all the guys I rapped with were better than me, so I was surprised when I was the breakout one. It was definitely a cool thing.

You're gonna laugh when I tell you this, man, but I'm starting to enjoy Eminem.

We think the man with the best rap will protect and save us, but it's not usually that way. Love is something deeper and purer.