Quotes About Collaboration

'Pinata' is a great rap record for jazz fans.

Rap, to me, is communal. It's something you do with your friends. So becoming a member of a group was the dream.

OutKast. For them to come back together to rap with me and my brother Krizz Kaliko would be ginormous.

I'll make a song with Rick Rubin, a song with Beyonce, a song with Lenny Kravitz. I just believe in making good music. I'm not trying to section myself off into just making hard-core rap music.

Every person I meet is a rapper, DJ, or makes beats.

The point of '777' is for the world to hear adult Key. Your favorite new rapper's favorite rapper, grown up. My job was to lay any canvas he needed at any given moment.

I would collaborate with James Franco as a rapper any day.

I would love to collaborate with Chance the Rapper. I love his lyrics and his sound and everything.

I don't have any beef with any rapper.

One of my homeboys from my neighborhood had actually taught me how to rap. He was the rapper and we would all go over to his house. It would be like 10 or 12 of us in there and he'd write everybody's rap in the house and would give everybody four or eight bars.

I never really was like, 'Let's me and this rapper link so the song can go crazy and everybody can listen to it.' I never made music for that purpose.

I've worked with incredible producers in the past, but when me and El-P got in a room, there was no way I was going to let off his head because not only was he one of the greatest producers I heard, he was one of the illest rappers I had ever heard.

I don't want to do one of those records where it's like a compilation of a bunch of all sorts of rappers on my beats. I don't find those to be focused albums.

I just love working with Eminem. He's just one of my favorite rappers, and his lyrics - he's a true poet, and I enjoy that about him.

As with all the other rappers I've worked with, Biggie and I shared common ground. Even though Biggie grew up in Brooklyn and I grew up in Chicago, we came from the same 'hood.

None of my dudes I chill with are rappers. I don't put us as rappers. We're all artists.

Now, I think you'll find a lot of rappers and artists are getting girl managers. It just makes sense. The guys in my team have learnt a lot from bringing girls in.

Throughout my rapping career, I always cooked for myself and anyone I worked with. It's what actually kept me grounded through those crazy years.

In high school I was making beats for my friends and for myself and rapping over them.

It never crossed my mind that I was the white guy rapping. I was best friends with Chamillionaire and whatever he did, I did. If he rapped, I rapped. It was something we did for fun at the track meets or basketball games. Or get in these freestyle cyphers with other schools. Me and Cham rapping together.

I had a lot of fun working with John Candy. We had a pretty good rapport.

When the actor you're developing a rapport with is directing, you feel much more camaraderie about scenes, and you can relate in a much tighter way.

I share a good rapport with Rajnikanth for I have worked with him in 'Panakkaran,' 'Mannan' and 'Uzhaipali' before.

I am a professional and maintain good rapport with all my producers, directors and co-artists.