Rap Production Quotes

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

Rap is the only super-current music. If you're into reggae or dancehall, and you don't know Bob Marley, then you don't really know what you're listening to. But if you're listening to rap, and you're 15, you're like, 'Grandmaster Flash? Who's that? Public Enemy? Yeah, my dad told me about them once.' And that's just how it is.

The only time I ever really got into rap was back in the early '90s, and bands like A Tribe Called Quest, De La Soul, Gang Starr. Musically, they were really interesting. But when hip-hop acts start sampling Sting or Phil Collins, then I just don't get it at all.

My favorite rappers are, I can't really say. I like Kanye because he's so creative. He'll just do anything. I like what Kanye's bringing to the game. Lil Wayne. I like Wayne.

I appreciate people who make hip-hop... the way A Tribe Called Quest and Lauryn Hill and KRS-One did it.

I've studied rap in every borough.

When people say to me 'what do you think of rap music?' my answer is there's no such thing. There's rap and there's music.

I've never been a rap guy, I don't really know that much about rap music, to be honest. I like it, but I think what really happened was just my music seems to work so well with rap music.

Even before anybody liked the 808, Mannie Fresh was on the 808.

When people say to me, 'What do you think of rap music?', my answer is, 'There's no such thing. There's rap, and there's music.'

Real hip-hop is Migos, Future.

I grew up with, maybe not the best hip-hop in the world, but a lot of hip-hop. Will Smith was, like, my jam when I was, like, 9 or 10 years old.

I liked rap from a young age, from listening to MC Hammer and Vanilla Ice.

Most people when they rap usually have their homies in the studio who rap with 'em, but they homies don't usually be producers.

I like Eminem's style, and Missy Elliott. I really like M.I.A.

A lot of people's favorite rappers will literally get in the booth and just make sounds.

My taste for rappers is very high. I've only worked with, like, Pac and Jay-Z and Scarface.

Cash Money really had no intentions of being a rap label because when it started, it really was based on bounce. It was one bounce song after another. I started to doing bounce songs for them, and they jumped off.

There was so much music growing up. But definitely Lil Wayne was a big influence because I had more of an understanding of what I was listening to when I was getting older.

A lot of rap songs don't usually have a lot of melody per se.

When Nas and AZ send you a track, you know it is serious business. Same with Styles P and Jadakiss - then it is serious business. But when you get a trap music track, you know it's time to dumb it down.

I often find myself writing little ditties I can imagine becoming rap songs. Not the actual rapping part, just the chorus.

With me and YG, he could rap a hook, and I could make a beat around it. Ten minutes, we done.

I don't listen to much rap, really. I can rarely listen to a whole record of it, because musically, it's very formulaic, and oftentimes it doesn't have the best hooks on every track.

I really only make my own beats when I feel like I can't wait on somebody, or it's taking too long to get a nice beat to rap on.