"I still love old-school hip-hop, but there hasn't been a lot that I've taken from the new stuff."
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"I said it's all good and it's all in fun Now get in the pit and try to love someone"
"I have always touched on different genres whether it has been hip-hop, country and the rock element."
"I got this black chick, she don't know how to act Always talkin' out her neck, makin' her fingers snap She like, "Listen Jigga Man, I don't care if you rap You better - R-E-S-P-E-C-T me"
"I gave you prophecy on my first joint, and y'all lamed out Didn't really appreciate it, 'til the second one came out"
"I felt like hip-hop was my music, it was like my outsider music... but then my mom started answering our phone, 'Yo, what's up.' She was hearing me talk to my friends. I was like, 'No, mom, don't cop the hip-hop talk."
"I am a hip-hop artist, as you probably know. My hip-hop name is Big Smalls."
"I'm a big hip hop fan."
"I've sort of realized there's a definite pattern to my output at this point: there's an album that everybody sort of loves, that's a real balance between the old and new, like The Dreamer or No Beginning No End, like a blend of jazz and hip-hop, or r&b and soul and hip-hop."
"You're insecure and need a blanket like Linus."
"I never let the worst things in life get the best of me. So take these testes and, ummm...open sesame."
"I make soul music for hip-hop heads. It's music I'd want to sample if I were a rapper."
"I was a hip-hop head. When I really found my own lane in music, it was hip-hop. I wanted to make hip-hop music. And I did, I made a lot of hip-hop music."
"Underground hip-hop is, like, one of my foundations, I would say a cornerstone of my foundation of my musical tastes."
"I'm a Jewish kid who grew up loving hip hop in NY."