Ja Rule Quotes

I got tired of the Ramones around the time I quit and I really got into rap. I thought it was the new punk rock. LL Cool J was my biggest idol.

My character is meant to know nothing about rap, and not to like it very much, but I know about it, because my kids make me listen to it. There's some rap I do like very much. I like Eminem, Blackalicious.

I love listening to Lil' Wayne, Drake, and Eminem to get me fired up!

I am not a rapper. And I believe people in India are not even clear with the whole idea of rap or what it signifies.

I used to really like Method Man and Redman for some reason. And Fabolous. A lot of New York rappers, too. Cam'ron. Jim Jones. Hurricane Chris.

I'm trying to bring gangster rap back to the forefront, like in the early '90s.

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

My favorite rappers are a lot of other people's favorite rappers. I love Jay Z, Kanye, 2Pac, Biggie, old Mos Def.

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

I've studied rap in every borough.

I'm huge into '90s rap. It's my jam.

A lot of the music, and especially rap, I don't understand.

One of the first albums that I remember, rap albums I remember really listening to, was LL Cool J 'Mama Said Knock You Out.'

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 listen to a lot of music, and I listen to some rap, and I do like listening to Biggie Smalls.

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

I'll always love rap, no matter what's going on.

I listen to Jay-Z, Nelly, Nas, Ludacris and all the young kids out there. I listen to them, and I have mad respect for them.

As far as rap, I was more of a Mobb Deep guy rather than a Tribe guy.

Well unfortunately I didn't work with Andre much. But rap is a strong presence in the culture and anyone is going to grateful for its appearance, grateful for any kind of music that has the kind of effect that rap has had on us all.

New York was at the forefront of rap, so because of all the great people who have gone before me, being a rapper from Queens, I have to live up to those standards. I'm basically just a regular guy who says what he feels and likes to joke. I like long walks on the beach... and I love rap.

Favorite rap album? Damn. Lil Wayne's mixtapes... He got a lot of good mixtapes like 'Da Drought 3.'

I guess, like, I've always listened to rap, and I remember I specifically started listening to, like, pop-rap when I was, like, 11, you know, like Shaggy. I love Shaggy. And then I discovered, like, underground rap when I got to high school, and really, that's when it kind of blossomed. I don't feel like my love for rap blossomed off of Shaggy.

Bone Thugs is one of my favorite rap groups of all time. I listened to them all the time when I was a kid.