Quotes About Hip-hop

I was a fan of T-Pain's music growing up. I bought 'Epiphany' and 'Rappa Ternt Sanga.'

I always viewed myself as kind of hip-hop's outcast, or hip-hop's stepson.

When I listen to hip-hop, it's like no big difference how people sing in my village, 'cause bling would be their cow.

I'm doing a fun EP. It's called 'Songs in the Key of Phife: Eight Is Enough.' It's radio-friendly, but then a lot of it just has that raw hip-hop. Some of it will be vintage Tribe, but for the most part I'm just letting my voice be heard.

I have all of Kendrick Lamar on vinyl.

Moving to L.A., I got really into hip-hop and trap music and basically a lot of the sounds you would maybe normally see in a festival, but for whatever reason, I was so involved in vinyl and house at the time, I didn't even know that I liked trap.

The traditional media never gave Bernie Sanders the time of day. But he went viral the same way hip-hop and new dances go viral. And I'm part of that culture.

Hip-hop and electronic music are so similar, in the fact that they're both very visceral, have so much bass; a lot of times, it's the same tempos. The culture and some of the sound design is different but a lot of times, it's the same stuff.

There are certain artists that get into the little circle in hip-hop, and everybody is talking about them, and they are buzzing. But they can't go out and sell out tours, perform in front of 3,000 people a night, and things like that. We did things backwards; with Visionary, we got all the fans first.

Atlanta is Exhibit A in my belief that the marriage between hip-hop and sports is a failure.

I would put LeBron on a track.

I do listen to Drake.

Man, I listened Nas and B.I.G growing up. I listened to both of them when I was younger for sure.

I wasn't one of those artists where people throw my song and just dance to it. People actually listened to the lyrics.

I listen to a lot of Eighties hip-hop. I listened to a lot of Ice-T.

I love me some Kendrick Lamar, love J. Cole.

Rap lyrics are really the only thing I've ever written.

Yo Gotti had some influence on me for sure. I would say Three 6 Mafia, too.

Yeah, I like Three Six Mafia and stuff like that.

When somebody tells me, 'The Source magazine had you in the Top 5 emcees,' I'm like, 'Okay, that's cool.' The other four may not be who I consider dope emcees.

I'm just trying to bring the sound from Atlanta over to the mainstream radio in a way that everybody can enjoy.

I like hip-hop personally. It is a genre I am very attached to and have been listening to all my life. But I have always engaged with foreign artistes, never with mainstream Indian hip-hop rap space.

Got your mama and sister dabbing.

It's such a phenomenon for a hip-hop artist to fully embrace his Christian roots and his faith. And that becomes something that people almost need you to justify.