Obie Trice Quotes

Detroit, the heart of the country... I grew up on 10 Mile, 2 miles better than 8 Mile.

Hip-hop is the streets. Hip-hop is a couple of elements that it comes from back in the days... that feel of music with urgency that speaks to you. It speaks to your livelihood and it's not compromised. It's blunt. It's raw, straight off the street - from the beat to the voice to the words.

Hip-hop is about the brilliance of pavement poetry.

You know, urban culture is fun; it's lovely.

I'll just walk around New York and watch people on the streets.

Hip-hop was super-exotic to us in Canada.

I was bringing the whole music, hip-hop, art, break dancing and urban cultural thing to the downtown table.

When I started making music, I was so heavy into the hyphy movement. That's something you only know so much about if you were right there living in it, submerged in the culture.

Detroit is right now a new Mecca for Hip Hop.

I took many trips down to New Orleans trying to experience the city as deeply as possible. I'm from Detroit so New Orleans seemed very exotic to me.

Hip-hop is all over the planet.

Definitely just growing up in general influenced me; Detroit happened to be where I was. I feel like the city definitely has made an impact on my life and made me who I am. Detroit has an unmistakable soul - nobody can duplicate the soul we bring to the game. From Motown to J Dilla to Eminem to anything.

I always loved the way music made me feel. I did sports at school and all, but when I got home, it was just music. Everybody in my neighborhood loved music. I could jump the back fence and be in the park where there were ghetto blasters everywhere.

The part of modern pop music I don't know much about is hip hop.

Hip-hop is supposed to help you elevate, or go higher.

I grew up in the Lower East Side of New York.

I grew up in Chicago, so hip-hop has always been a part of my life.

I live in a neighborhood that's really filled with sound - there's a lot of Jamaican auto body shops, and the guys next door play hip hop.

Rap is a gimmick, but I'm for the hip-hop, the culture.

I'm a big fan of hip-hop, so it reflects in my approach.

Hip hop scholarship must strive to reflect the form it interrogates, offering the same features as the best hip hop: seductive rhythms, throbbing beats, intelligent lyrics, soulful samples, and a sense of joy that is never exhausted in one sitting.

The Cool Kids are Chicago. Me being from Michigan is a part of that dynamic.

I moved to New York - I attended NYU, did a BFA in Acting at NYU. I was really into hip-hop, so I started battling, like '8 Mile.' I used to rap battle.

I come from a young, hip-hop, urban world.

I was a rapper and a DJ, and if you wanted to be involved in hip-hop, you had to be involved in the sonic, the kinetic and the visual aspects. The visual was graffiti.