Russell Simmons Quotes

Working with 50 Cent was great, you know what Im saying? It was just great to work with 50 Cent.

As long as I'm around the cats in the hip hop scene, they'll throw me a track and I'll write a rap over it.

I'd love to collaborate with Drake. I think he's awesome.

I'm not blowing my own trumpet here, but I made a rap song 20 years ago with Afrika Bambaataa.

I have an EP coming soon with Cardo. It's called 'Glizzy Got Wings.' I love his sound, and he loves mine.

I have been making hip-hop since I was a kid growing up in New York in the '80s and '90s. It's always been a hobby of mine - I've been making beats and writing songs for as long or longer than I've been acting.

I've produced all of Childish Gambino's music.

With Yo Gotti 'Rack It Up,' that was him hitting me like, bro, I'm about to put out a single next month, I want you to produce it.

E-40 is another person I love working with because he is so entertaining.

I really want to work with Eminem. I know it will never happen, but I would love if he let me do a hook on one of his songs or he featured on one of my songs. It would be incredible. I've just always admired him since I was young.

There's gonna be a lot of great songs, but there ain't going to be another 'Trap Queen.'

I wrote songs with the guys from Air Supply for their record... So I was just writing songs.

I would say my dream collaboration would probably have to be with Drake. I think he is an amazing artist.

I ran into Snoop one night. I was in the studio later, and I got this beat and thought he would sound great on it. I called him and he came right through that night.

This is sort of not expected, but I would love to produce a record for Missy Elliott. It would be totally different, but she makes party music. 'Lose Control' was my favorite song when I was in 5th or 6th grade.

If I'm not putting out music, I'mma be producing for everybody. I got an artist named Mike Slice. He's nice, and he's real good. I'm doing a bunch of production for all the artists in the industry because I'm as much as a producer as I am an artist.

I'd want to collaborate with Eminem, of all people. Maybe even Lauryn Hill.

My ambition was to be a record producer, and I had started doing that in the late '60s with my work with the MC5 and my friend Livingston Taylor.

I always give RZA that support as far as saying he brought Wu-Tang to the table. It was his philosophy. He picked certain dudes to be part of this group, and he said, 'This is what it's going to be called.'

Jeremih has been my favorite artist to collab with.

My brother's been producing rap music and hip-hop for maybe 10 years.

The first song I did was over a Chief Keef beat - 'Understand Me.' I did that in, like, 2011 or 2012, I think.

One of my dream collaborations is to work with Sade. I would love to work with Andre 3000, Miguel.

Shady's great; I love Shady Records.

I would love to have a rapper on one of my songs, like Ludacris, or the 'it's so hot in here' guy, Nelly.