Look at Pusha-T. He makes a certain type of rap music. 'Daytona' is that on the highest level.
I definitely think, generally, rap is misogynistic.
'Gangsta rap' is a derogatory label.
When I got into rap I didn't exactly win any popularity contests. I called myself Dee Dee King, after B.B. King, to the total dismay of my fellow Ramones.
If I have a rap album I'm dropping, then I want it to be the best rap album.
When Elton John sang a duet with the white rapper Eminem on a Grammy telecast, rap went mainstream. Massive parental headaches followed.
It's bad poetry executed by people that can't sing. That's my definition of Rap.
I don't like the fact that there are so few women in rap.
Everybody was always telling me to rap and freestyle. I used to go to the park and spit on the mic. If I go to the park, they always gonna give me the mic.
It's difficult to wear such high Louboutins and also freestyle rap.
I grew up listening to a lot of emo music, a lot of rock music, a lot of rap music, a lot of trap music, funk, everything.
For all my proclivities for thuggery, I am a typical middle-class dad. I'm a gangsta rap suburban father!
Rap is a gimmick, but I'm for the hip-hop, the culture.
If I didn't have a girlfriend, I'd have 10 girls at the studio, and they would make me not rap.
I grew up in the '90s. My goal isn't to be a '90s rapper, but I have little hints of '90s influence in my music. It's a modern approach to classic rap.
Rap actually took root in the Negro community, and then in the Hispanic community, long before it impacted on the larger American community as a whole.
I want to be a rap icon.
Rap music is the only vital form of music introduced since punk rock.
My mom had early rap records, like Jimmy Spicer. In the middle of the records was a turntable and a receiver - I used to scratch records on it - and on top was a reel-to-reel. In front of that wall were more stacks of records. It was either Mom's record or Pop's record, and they had their names on each and every one.
Rap was more of a release for me, a journal.
