I'm working on a mixtape called I Made Hip-Hop Smile. It's going to be a free online mixtape. I think it's going to get some crazy buzz. We have a few marketing campaigns, that I think are going to make it pull through.
I'd rather be broke and have a whole lot of respect. It's the principle of it.
For what it's worth, I've been a hip-hopper from birth. Try to disrespect, and get your ass played up like a Smurf.
When you go to South Africa, you get a different vibe and a different sound. The music is awesome the people are loving it. When you go to Botswana, it's a different ball game. The people out there love Afro Beat Hip Hop so much. When you go to Sierra Leone it's different, when you go to Nigeria it's different. . . It's all pretty exciting!
I've been dancing my entire life. Jazz, hip hop, ballet. And then there's tap dancing. I love to tap.
We ain't speak, clicking heat is our Morse code.
I don't dislike rappers or hip-hop or people who like it. I went to the Def Jam tour in Manchester in the '80s when rap was inspirational. Public Enemy were awesome. But it's all about status and bling now, and it doesn't say anything to me.
Picture yourself crushin' Xzibit with your tough talk? That's like Christopher Reeve doing the crip walk.
Rhyme to kill, rhyme to murder, rhyme to stomp, Rhyme to ill, rhyme to romp, Rhyme to smack, rhyme to shock, rhyme to roll, Rhyme to destroy anything, toy boy. On the microphone: I'm Poppa Large, big shot on the East Coast.
Trapped on a planet of pain and perpetrators That you call 'Earth,' but I call 'Hell's Equator. '
I'm a fan of hip hop music, so I always used a hip hop element in my music anyway.
I expect the hip-hop audience to be avant garde. I want them to be where I'm at or beyond where I'm at.
Rhyme is cool again. It's because of hip-hop. Bless you, hip-hop.
There's a need for pop. There's a need for radio. There's also a need to understand the brilliance and the depth of jazz and soul - and what hip-hop can be at its most brilliant and what hip-hop can be at its most simplistic.
The last batter to hit, blast shattered your hip, Smash any splitter or fastball-that'll be it.
At the end of the day, you want to be always the one that's one step ahead of everybody, and when it comes to hip-hop, culture and art, you want to be that signature guy.
Stop lookin' at what you ain't got, and start being thankful for what you do got.
I love hip-hop videos. It was not meant as disrespect. I used to watch those videos and think, "Are these guys kidding? They've got to be kidding!" But they're not and that in itself is what makes them good.
Hip-hop to me right now is really easy listening. It's very easy listening, like there's nothing abrasive about it. There's no album that I put in my car that makes me roll down the windows - all the windows - and ride past the club line three times before I get out the car.
Brain so good could've sworn you went to college
