As an artist, I always just want to grow as a songwriter. I listen to a lot of music. I listen to music all the time, whether it's hip-hop or soul or….

Hip-hop is such a disposable art form from a business standpoint. It never treats its artists as art; it never treats its product as art..

I'm a tremendous believer and supporter in hip-hop and rap..

Hip-hop is getting to the point now where they are going to start sounding like Al Jarreau or Bobby McFerrin or some of the other poets. Some of the ….

Hip-hop used to be about battles, beatboxing and breakdancing. All they get exposed to now is the negative stuff..

I want to make music as good as Radiohead, as good as Coldplay. I can make hip-hop as good as anybody..

I told her, "I got the chips if you got the dip." She said when I dip, that I better be equipped and keep my hand on her hips..

Throughout hip-hop people have been putting different elements with different types of music..

I'm just basically spillin' out my emotions to the world. 'Cause rap is about emotion. And I want you to feel what I'm feelin', 'cause that's what it….

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 t….

Having grown up far, far away in a small country town in Australia, I was only slightly aware of hip-hop..

In the Ferrari or Jaguar, switchin' four lanes Wit' the top down screaming out money ain't a thang.

Difficult takes a day Impossible takes a week I do this in my sleep.

I don't even listen to hip-hop anymore. All my friends are white and over 40..

I don't really get the same kinda romance that I would get from, like, jazz. And even to a lesser extent to rock 'n roll. Rock 'n roll has a romance ….

I love the sounds of Latin jazz, R&B, hip-hop, alternative, all that stuff. I'm a radio kid..

I got lots of love for my crew, that is; No love for them other crews and rival kids. All them out-of-town niggas know what time it is, And if the….

So sucker MC's, please think twice; Would you join the navy if you didn't like the gravy and rice?.

Fitzgerald coined the phrase the 'Jazz Age,' and now we're living in the Hip-Hop Age..

The Nets' a stone throw from where I used to throw bricks ...So it's only right I'm still tossing 'round Knicks..

In the hip-hop community, it's about how real are you, or how strong can you be, and really my music just reflects me. If you can accept me, then you….