Quotes About Transition

Millions of people are falling out of the middle class into the ranks of the poor.

To jump from the indie ranks to play with the big dogs, there's a gate you have to pass through.

I know I can't rap forever, but I know as long as I got a label or something I can get money forever.

I'm definitely tired of playing 'Acid Rap.' I'm definitely tired of playing 'Juice.'

To me, the 90's signaled the end of glam rock, the beginning of gangsta rap, and hopefully the beginning and end of boy bands.

I mean I'll be retired from rap, so what I'll be doin' in rap will be for fun.

We have groups that do that, but I can't rap with the mentality of an 18 year old when I'm in my 30's.

I was a metalhead and then I was into the rap and then I was a metalhead again.

When I was 13 years old, I was dressing in a rap style. And then I changed schools, and the rap style became old-fashioned, so I changed it completely.

When I joined this band, I never thought of myself as a singer. I just did whatever I could, which was rap. And then, over time, I've grown, and we've developed and tried different things. It all happened gradually and naturally.

Before I even started listening to rap music, I was really into metal and punk.

I kind of backed into rap music. I thought I was going to do comic books or graphic art.

By the late '80s, I was already giving up on rap music.

I think it's almost impossible for any expert to predict for the rapid changes we see in the Middle East. They are rapid and they will continue for quite a while.

China itself is now in the process of sloughing off not only the communist system, but also those outdated parts of Confucianism that prevent the rapid acquisition of knowledge needed to adjust to new ways of life and work.

Living through times of rapid change can be exhilarating, but it also can be very difficult.

Artistic mediums go through phases where progress happens really rapidly, and then other moments where it slows down.

Ideas move rapidly when their time comes.

It was really a very small company when I started and it changed very rapidly during those first periods.

As far as 3-D goes, I don't know if that will stay very long because things are moving so rapidly.

I'm not a Soundcloud rapper anymore.

I used to be focused on being the dopest rapper in the game, and then once that became what I was, I wanted something different, and I wanted to become the best businessman in the game. I wanted to learn how to master the business like I mastered the rap.

When I get done playing basketball, I'm definitely not going to be a rapper. I'm not going to be an old person who is focused on being a rapper.

Ice Cube is doing so great. He went from being this hardcore gangster rapper to this actor now. He's doing children's movies and all this stuff - he's rocking it.