Quotes About Hip-hop

It's funny: I don't listen to too much rap. I don't listen to too much older hip-hop. If I do, it's Ja Rule.

I tell people that the Clipse were the first Internet rap darlings.

I would say I'm a fan of late '90s to early 2000s rap. That's where I get all my inspiration from.

I had this little rap group, and we were called '2 Too Many'... We used to hang out in front of Jazzy Jeff's record studio every day.

I was a huge fan of '90s hip-hop, and a lot of what they got their music from was funk and soul records. They just, like, take a clip of that and rap over it because, you know, that was just kind of what was up.

By no means am I excusing homophobic rap lyrics, but as a product of the same environments that birthed hip-hop, I fully understand why those lyrics existed.

When you're part of hip-hop culture but you're a Christian, people want you to be either-or. Or they'll create a category for you, like, 'Oh, gospel rap!'

I rap and I sing, so then you've got a bit of hip-hop in there. I'm Jamaican, so you got a bit of dancehall. And I'm from London, so there's a bit of London things in there... And at sometimes, it's a little bit Afrobeat.

I feel like every time I make a beat, and the Migos rap on it, it's gonna be fire.

I'm trying to bring gangster rap back to the forefront, like in the early '90s.

You had Cash Money: that was just the flashy dudes. Like I said, you had different genres of rap, and we were just one of them. So that's how we fit in. What makes it all confusing - and this is where it's the gift and the curse - we never set out for hip-hop to turn into just something flashy. That was just our thing. It wasn't everybody's thing.

I come from a very specific love of hip-hop. I'm saying hip-hop, not rap. That's what saved my life. I carry that badge with a lot of pride and honor, and I really enjoy trying to raise the perception and the bar of what we do.

I'm a fan of hip-hop. I'm a fan of rap, so anything new that's happening, I'm hip to it.

I listen to rap a lot. I love Nas, Damien Marley, and Lauryn Hill.

I didn't tell anybody that I wanted to rap when I was in high school.

When I was in prison, rap was all I had at that point because I was kicked out of school, all that education just gone and I couldn't come out of prison to play football - that was all over with.

Look at Pusha-T. He makes a certain type of rap music. 'Daytona' is that on the highest level.

I've always been a fan of rap music.

No, I can't do rap music!

I am obsessed with rap music - it's such a big part of my life.

Rap music was a savior to me.

I love rap music.

I don't even really like rap music.

My mother was a - she worked at a halfway house. And one of the former inmates slid me a mix-tape full of different hip-hop songs. And so that was my first kind of experience with rap music.