Back in the day, if someone said that hip hop and rap was a fad, that was a joke to me because they just didn't know what they were talking about. In reality, there were so many people who didn't know what they were talking about it.
All the rappers in rave music are like the sloppy seconds of rappers who couldn't make it.
I can't look at TV without seeing something that's been influenced by rap. Even commercials for cereal. When I was small, I was a fan of cartoon characters - now the cartoon characters are rapping!
No U.K. rapper has been in my position; there are loads of big rappers like Tinie Tempah or Skepta, but no one has done what I have: had mainstream success with underground music and pop music.
When I came out rapping on my record, a lot of people said, Oh, you just want to be like Puff.
Compton got such a legacy in hip-hop.
I still gotta reacquaint myself with the hip-hop audience.
Nowadays rap artists coming half-hearted, Commercial like pop, or underground like black markets. Where were you the day hip-hop died? Is it too early to mourn? Is it too late to ride?
I made the decision that I was going to make rap music in, like, fourth grade, so it's been something I was saying for a long time.
To me, rap music is bigger than who's the coolest rapper, the biggest rapper. It's everything about your personality.
Whether you like him or not, hip hop needs Drake.
I don't even really like rap music.
I'm fascinated with the regionality of rap music.
Serious rap music puts me to sleep.
Rappers were my storytellers.
