Every night I pray to God: 'Please, no more wack MC's. '
Switchin' speeds like Bruce Lee ridin' up Fuji in a movie.
I like to consider myself a student of hip hop. There's a certain level of certification and wit and craftsmanship that comes with rapping. As rap progresses - it's a young genre - it's becoming way more mainstream, crossing over to different lanes. I feel like it's losing its essence in a way, because it's getting commercialised. I want to keep it fresh and keep it progressive, but I also want to respect the foundation of what rap is about.
It's hard bein' real in a world that's a fallacy.
I relieve rappers just like Tylenol
I'm sautéing emcees with fried rice up in the wok without the MSG and chopped celery.
I can take any series of numbers and turn it into music, from Bach to bebop, Herbie Hancock to hip-hop.
My album will manifest many things I saw,did or heard about; I talk first hand never word of mouth.
It's just hypocrisy on hip-hop's part to cry racial profiling when your race is on TV acting like fools.
That's what I love from metal, and that's what I love from hip-hop. That's what I love from any music that's hard, that's got an edge to it-The attitude in it.
Change is a direct element of hip-hop. That's the whole thing with style.
I live in hip-hop. I don't find it to be offensive.
I break an emcee off proper Yo don't check me, Ask your Moms and Pops, Yo they respect me, But here you stand, tryin' to get yours, but gettin' nothin' You probably can't spell "Boogie Down" or "Productions"
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.
Everyone has an addiction, mine happens to be you.
Do the math: You never settle for less than the whole if you knew the half.
What if Manhattan was hit by Hurricane Katrina?
You're insecure and need a blanket like Linus.
That was my challenge then, how to make scratching still fun for someone who didn't necessarily come to hear that. It was fun to develop that technique. And now in dance music - I'm still a hip-hop guy at heart, but I love dance music.
I am recognizing that the voice inside my head Is urging me to be myself, but never follow someone else Because opinions are like voices, we all have a different kind.
