"When the OutKast sound changed and I started producing my own records, I would mirror what I thought that character doing that music would look like. As the sound got a little wilder, freakier and funkier, so did the clothes. Then when the sound got more sophisticated, the clothes changed again."
"Hip-hop don't have no fresh energy, none at all. It's money driven, everybody tryin' to make that cheque, nobody putting art in their albums any more."
51 likes
Source: Fine and dandy. Interview with Alexis Petridis, www.theguardian.com. November 7, 2003.
About the author
Same author
More quotes by Andre Benjamin
"They can bite, but cannot be us, They can come and pick up little slang but cannot see us, You ought to be ashamed trying to fit in my adidas, So Run like DMC like you don't know you got no heater"
"The world doesn't need another clothing company. But it does need a certain funk."
"Everybody's got opinions on the way you're livin', But see, they can't fill your shoes."
"I said, 'What you wanna be?' She said, 'Alive.' It made me think for a minute, then looked in her eyes ...I coulda died."
"If models are made for modeling, thick girls are made for cuddling."