With everything that is going on with hip-hop and with what everybody is doing I don't want to be in that lane. I think my lane is very different.
What I'm aiming to do within hip-hop is to point out that the music itself is powerful; it reaches so many people.
Hip-hop is too young to put a definition on it
What's wrong with hip-hop is the system that controls the definition of it. There needs to be more balance on the airwaves.
The only reason I've been so critical of hip-hop is because I've always been aware of the effect that it has, and the reflection that it gives of the African-American community.
Сommercial hip-hop is not youth rebellion, not when the heroes of hip-hop like Puffy are taking pictures with Donald Trump and the heroes of capitalism - you know that's not rebellion. That's not "the street" - that's Wall Street.
Earnestness can go wrong in hip hop. On this album, it goes very right.
People also knew me for putting people up to hip-hop, so people knew I was heavy into hip-hop. But as for cyphers and stuff in high school, I would never get on it because I was too shy. That's pretty much what I was doing.
Hip-Hop itself, the culture, the way that it's going you could always see the effect that it has on basketball.
I'm a hip-hop kind of guy, but to be honest with you, I could listen to R&B all day. Give me some slow jams, and I'm a happy person.
Hip-hop is about tearing down the system to better it, tearing down the system to better themselves. No matter how flimsy it might seem, they always wanted the finer things in life.
Hip-hop took some lessons from rock 'n' roll, and rock 'n' roll took some lessons from hip-hop.
Hip-hop is such a wide statement of culture that everyone is not the same, and it's impossible to put it into one box.
I live in hip-hop. I don't find it to be offensive.
Im a hip-hop guy, and the first time I heard Eminem was in 96. He was on a record with Shabban Siddiq. I was like, Who is this guy? Hes dope! First album came out: awesome. Second album came out: awesome. Third album, I was like, Eh. He started to get really successful. He wasnt mine anymore.
I got 304's in 310 on Section 8, with multiple 187's... Sport a Marilyn Manson t-shirt when I die and go to heaven.
Dabbling in music and being in music when I was young I had my own view of what I thought music was whether it was jazz, r&b, or hip hop.
I think things are gonna change. I'm gonna take the age limit off of hip hop.
Hopefully we get back to the raw essence of hip hop again.
I've always been a fan of hip hop and there are cats out there that I admire.
There's no major label in the world that would have let me make video game music, then conscious hip hop. They want you to find your audience, your lane, and stay in it until it ends. I can't do that.
I am not of the impression that an overwhelming amount Hip Hop artists are super savvy on Broadway and it's goings-on, but who knows.
It still feels like Hip Hop is in the early '80s on Broadway.
When you a young kid at that age at that time, and you know that you got talent as far as hip hop, you wanna be on the radio, that's the first thing. So we was more or less infatuated with just havin' a song on the radio, you know? Before our careers even launched it was more or less about lettin' everybody know, 'Staten Island? You got good emcees there.'
My son is a hip-hop producer.
