I'm the leader of the show, keepin' you on the go, but I know I can't live without my radio.
There is still consciousness in hip hop.
Game recognize game in The Bay mane.
Uh I like it like that She working that back, I don't know how to act
When I met you it was magic. . . We polar opposites, but attracted like we was magnets.
I heard when I talk, they all listen, They hang on every word from the God, they all Christians. I baptize 'em with lines, this is y'all christenin' Bless with the gift of my presence, this y'all's Christmas.
I have no confidence issues with the impact or the quality of the music. No one in hip-hop, before this point and to this point, with all due respect, has done this.
What's wrong with hip-hop is the system that controls the definition of it. There needs to be more balance on the airwaves.
I can drink a whole Hennessy fifth. Some call that a problem, but I call it a gift.
I'm expressin' with my full capabilities, And now I'm livin in correctional facilities. Cause some don't agree with how I do this, I get straight and meditate like a Buddhist.
Me and hip-hop have a relationship that has nothing to do with no other rapper, no matter where you from or nothing. Every n*gga got his own personal relationship with hip-hop and this is mine.
Hip-hop reflects the truth, and the problem is that hip-hop exposes a lot of the negative truth that society tries to conceal. It's a platform where we could offer information, but it's also an escape.
I thank God for Hip Hop because Marvin Gaye didn't have that and he was able to be that dope. For us to have that and more, I feel like it is up to us to be as dope as we can possibly be.
Dancehall is just like hip-hop in that it doesn't always talk about bling; it talks about conscious issues.
Rock'n'roll as a genre is different from pop and hip hop: it is about bands, and that for me suggests brotherhood, family, friendship and community.
I have gone through many difference phases in my love affair with hip-hop. It evolves, your taste. It sometimes deepens, in terms of what's out; sometimes it's not as deep in terms of what's out. So it's definitely an evolution. I don't ever claim to be a hip-hop head.
Yo, you 14-carat gold slum computer wizard, Tappin' inside my rap vein causes blizzards!
Never let me slip cuz if I slip then I'm slippin'.
Hip-hop in Africa has been very often a duplication of an American experience, but in a context that's totally alien to it.
Niggas is decaf, I stick 'em for the C. R. E. A. M.