"Hip-hop is a voice for voiceless poor people."
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"I'm rockin' PJ's and no shirt. I smoke weed, eat yogurt"
"I don't know what's better: getting laid or getting paid. I just know when I'm getting one, the other's getting away."
"I like the way hip-hop is now. It's grown up enough so that it can get involved with politics if it feels like it."
"Hip-Hop aint dead, it just had a heart attack."
"She said, "'Ye can we get married at the mall?" I said, "Look, you need to crawl 'fore you ball Come and meet me in the bathroom stall And show me why you deserve to have it all.""
"I grew up around hip-hop so I didn't think it was about being cool or being black or being white or whatever."
"Hip Hop can be a very effective way to reach young people and teach them about current political and social issues."
"I don't like rap music at all. I don't think it's music. It's just a beat and rapping."
"Hip-hop is more about attaining wealth. People respect success. They respect big. They don't even have to like your music. If you're big enough, people are drawn to you."
"You can't control who likes you. If I got Backstreet Boy fans what am I supposed to do? Turn them away? Whoever likes my stuff, likes my stuff but just know Slim Shady is hip hop, I grew up on hip hop, it's the music I love and it's the music I respect. I respect the culture...that's me."
"Went from most hated to the Champion God Flow, I guess that's a feelin' only me and LeBron know."
"You know that one auntie, you don't wanna be rude, ...But every holiday, nobody eatin' her food."
"Vocabulary spills I'm ill."
"The moment I made that decision to get in the studio and actually work and study the culture of hip-hop, then everything just started to open up and blossom for me."
"I'm a firm believer that we all meet up in eternity Just hope the big man show me some courtesy."
"Hip-hop artist, especially the older ones, are the ones who new hip-hop was a worldwide phenomenon before the mainstream caught on, so hip-hop artists are forward thinkers. We want to stay with the new."
"I have done so much for hip-hop and 'til this day, I haven't received any awards or any recognition for it."
"I would just like to see hip-hop journalism in general take a step up and match the artistry. There have been great writers in music who are the caliber of artist as a writer as the people that they're covering."
"For quiet times disappear listen to the ocean"