Quotes About Hip-hop

Eminem is a master.

Me and Master P go way back.

We've been branded 'the thinking man's hip-hop.' So the music's got to have some level of maturity.

The first rhymes I wrote, I was 9. It was Kool Moe Dee-style.

I like A$AP Rocky and his stuff - Kendrick too.

I love sampling, and RZA loves sampling, too.

Pete Dj Jones was the first person that I saw with 2 turntables. This was 1972.

People told me that Miley's '23' wasn't hip-hop. Let me tell you, she went in and owned that track.

Hip-hop is ever changing but you'll always have the pack. And you'll always have those people who are separated from the pack.

I had gone to a talent show - I was interested in American hip-hop music - with my older brother, to another town, and my town was attacked. I went from having an entire family to the next minute not having anything. It was very painful.

I listen to a lot of Pandora. I listen to the Hot 97 app.

I feel like baggy pants are cool.

I love what TLC did with the baggy pants. I love a lot of throwbacks.

The rhythmic feel of 'Dark Days In Paradise' is completely different to anything I've ever done before. There's a lot of drum loops on there, but used in conjunction with real drums: a lot of influence from hip-hop and dance music, with the keyboard sound and sequencing.

Jadakiss is not no walk in no park. Nas is not no walk in no park. These are dudes that could have ended my career.

When I was in high school, the energy in hip-hop at that point was the park energy... I was just trying to develop my style at that point, and I think, when you're trying to find your style, you find yourself.

The whole history of music has turned out to be something perfect. It's all come around. The music we did with Funkadelic and Parliament was the DNA for hip-hop.

I've been a DJ since I was about 13, and I started out as a hip-hop DJ. So I was always playing records that would just get people going. I was just doing parties and high school dances and whatever, and then, progressively, I started making my own music, writing little songs here and there, but it was never anything crazy.

Before I got into stand-up, I used to be a hip-hop dancer in a crew, and my name was J. Smoove, and my partner was J. Groove.

My partner, Danny Strong, came to me with this idea of telling a story about my life and merging that with music and the hip-hop world. He wrote 'The Butler' and originally wanted to do 'Empire' also as a movie.

DJ Khaled most definitely knows how to rock a party.

When we were doing shows in the mid-'90s, the audiences were 95% black. What's happened now is the gentrification of hip-hop. A lot of cities passed ordinances that made it hard for black audiences to gather in large groups. Clubs are more open to hip-hop now 'cause it's the same crowd that goes to rock shows.

My dad is from Queens. I remember visiting as a kid. My grandparents grew up here. All the actors I respected were coming out of here. All the hip-hop I was listening to - Beastie Boys, A Tribe Called Quest, Biggie, Wu Tang - was coming out of New York. I'm just into it.

I was a rapper and a DJ, and if you wanted to be involved in hip-hop, you had to be involved in the sonic, the kinetic and the visual aspects. The visual was graffiti.