Musician Quotes

If you stay in one place, you can only rap about one thing because that's all you know.

I've seen and learned enough to keep my music fresh and spread out.

I see myself as a flashlight in the dark. I'm not trying to be overlooked anymore.

I have family in Ponce. It's a shame that my grandfather passed and I wasn't able to be there with him.

I feel like I made it already, because I got already what everybody on the corners of the neighborhood I grew up in is striving to get.

A true revolution of values will soon look uneasily on the glaring contrast of poverty and wealth.

I take things like honor and loyalty seriously. It's more important to me than any materialistic thing or any fame I could have.

When I rap, it's just an extension of how I speak, and that's how I talk. If you don't like it, don't listen.

The beats are like scripts, and the raps are my monologue.

Nowadays when I walk around, I get noticed, which is kind of weird.

Life is the same. It would be the same thing if I were still working at Starbucks, having to deal with a manager, and a shift manager. This is a job.

I've been making music for a while. And I could read about myself on the Internet for a while.

I'm also not going to explain something just because I said it in a rap. Take what you want from it.

I don't want to talk about Nicki Minaj anymore.

I don't live on other people's terms.

You have to look at the fact that Hip Hop is under attack. It's not just Hip Hop but Black people, Latino people and all people are under attack for different things.

When you talk about rap you have to understand that rap is part of the Hip-Hop culture.

Well, a lot of people within government and big business are nervous of Hip Hop and Hip Hop artists, because they speak their minds. They talk about what they see and what they feel and what they know. They reflect what's around them.

We also want to try and slow down all this foolishness that's going on between the East and West. We gotta understand that Hip Hop is now universal. Hip Hop is not East coast or West coast.

They're keeping friction going between people from the East and the West. One thing we all got in common is your color, which is Black and Latino, which is our family.

They allow us to disrespect our Black woman. A lot of these things would be considered criminal if it were to be carried out in the streets. That's like when they tell you after you buy your VHS and you rent movies they tell you not to copy the movies.

There's a lot of people over time who have brought out all these funky records that everybody has started jumping on like a catch phrase... When Planet Rock came out, then you had all of the electro funk records.

There are certain things that they say you can't do, there are all these secret people behind the scenes who make things available for you to do. That's why you have so much crime and violence.

The thing that's good about Hip Hop is that it has experimented with a lot of different sounds and music.

Since the pharmaceuticals don't make any money and they control the doctors. If the doctors don't make any money then all hell breaks loose. In communities like LA and New York they are using a lot of the youth for a test sight.

If you see something is going wrong within politics and the world today, then some Hip Hop artist is gonna come along and get straight with it. If they think that there's a lot of racism going on then there's another Hip Hop artist who's gonna come out and speak their mind.

I knew that as a DJ from 1970 on up that I would eventually come with this sound. I brought out all these other break beats that you hear so much on a lot of these records.

I am one of the founders of Hip-Hop along with my brothers Kool DJ Herc and Grandmaster Flash.

How you act, walk, look and talk is all part of Hip Hop culture. And the music is colorless. Hip Hop music is made from Black, brown, yellow, red and white.

We want you to sit down and leave your egos at home and let's get an understanding as to where all this is foolishness coming from. There are others who are putting things out there or throwing a stick and hiding their hand and keeping things built up in the media.