Quotes About Hip-hop

Before I did comedy, I'd freestyle with all of my friends. In high school and into college, I recorded songs with my friends, not to perform but just to play for them. So I've had interest in music for a while. Early on, I'd host a lot of music open nights or hip-hop nights, so a lot of my early experience performing was around music.

We recorded 'Chopper City in the Ghetto' in a house that we was living in.

I remember recording over my mom's cassettes and putting on 'Thuggish Ruggish Bone,' and my mom be like, 'What the hell?' Being that I was born in '82, I've been listening to all of the classics throughout my years.

I produced Run DMC. I produced some early records, lots of records early on.

I knew that as a DJ from 1970 on up that I would eventually come with this sound. I brought out all these other break beats that you hear so much on a lot of these records.

Like with me, like around '97, for Christmas my parents bought me an MPC 2000 sampler and a little eight-track cassette recorder. And I started sampling records and, you know, producing hip-hop beats. And it got to the point where I realized - I innately realized that the music I liked the most was made by people that played instruments.

I always say to people that I left hip-hop in '97, meaning that I departed from listening to predominately hip-hop and just started really getting into records from the late '60s, early '70s. And once I made that change, I realized how much great music was made back in the day, and it started to become apparent how much we've lost in music.

Actually freestyle really comes from 'Planet Rock'. If you listen to all the freestyle records you'll hear that they are based on 'Planet Rock'. All the Miami Bass records are based upon Planet Rock.

All the Public Enemy albums, I knew what records they were sampling but was like, 'How'd they construct it like this?!'

All the 'Scarface' beats that you hear Mobb Deep sample, that was my idea.

Hey, I was one of those hip-hop kids who used to hate on things that would become popular.

When I write, I like squeezing as many words as possible into each bar - I've listened to the Fugees and Lauryn Hill for as long as I can remember, so probably a big chunk of it subconsciously comes from that.

I'd want to collaborate with Eminem, of all people. Maybe even Lauryn Hill.

I was a huge Lauryn Hill fan; that was all my mom would listen to in the car.

The music is just real powerful when Mobb Deep and Nas work together.

My taste for rappers is very high. I've only worked with, like, Pac and Jay-Z and Scarface.

I worked with Busta back in the days, shoutout to the OG Busta Rhymes.

Hip hop was definitely, far and away, the primary influence for at least 10 years of my life. From about 7 or 8 on till about 15 or 16, that's all I listened to.

I'm a prime example of a person who loves hip-hop, and I will defend it till the day I die.

When you go back and really listen to the legendary rappers, this is timeless music. Guys like Biggie, guys like Pac, timeless music.

Anything Drake drops is timeless. It's always timeless, it's always lit.

We've been in the game for so long, it's great to be honored for our contributions to the game of hip-hop and be told that we're not forgotten about, that our music is timeless.

My timing came from Funkadelic, definitely.

I don't like calling it Christian rap. Titles are so limiting. It's hip-hop. I'm a rapper.