Quotes About Hip-hop

New York gave me hell for that 'Purple Swag ' man. They didn't respect me until 'Peso.'

Rap is a gimmick, but I'm for the hip-hop, the culture.

Rap is something you live; hip hop is something you do.

I'm not really into rap.

I don't like the fact that there are so few women in rap.

Growing up, flute riffs was big in rap back then. It's what I listened to.

Lil B opened up the floodgates for Odd Future, and now rap has a huge Internet culture.

I was, like, in a rap gang. I loved rap, and it was all around me.

KRS One and LL Cool J are the biggest influences in my rap career, along with Heavy D.

I have a rap group called Outlaw Posse.

I'm huge into '90s rap. It's my jam.

I think that rap is narrative, when it's done right.

As far as rap goes, I grew up in Hollis, Queens, so early influences were people like Run DMC and LL Cool J.

I don't listen to rap all the time. Even though I rap, rap can be nerve-wracking.

I definitely don't want to be one of the bad guys. And I don't want to be one of the people who bring rap a bad name. That's not me.

I want to be a rap icon.

I'm not very good with rap and things like that.

I love rap.

I actually grew up break-dancing. When you break-dance you listen to hip-hop and rap, so I've been listening to that music since I was a kid.

Hip-hop was my first audience - I would rap in the mirror, walk down the street and listen to my Walkman.

You can't compete with hip-hop. That doesn't mean I don't want to be as big as a rap star. I do - I'm always competitive. But there's this weird perception of me as someone who's sitting around plotting like a devil. It's not like that.

I listen to a lot of music, and I listen to some rap, and I do like listening to Biggie Smalls.

I want the feuds to come back - there aren't enough rap feuds anymore. I want a serious rap-off.

I moved to New York - I attended NYU, did a BFA in Acting at NYU. I was really into hip-hop, so I started battling, like '8 Mile.' I used to rap battle.