R. Kelly Quotes

I'm still an outsider in the hip hop community. I don't even know if I'm making hip hop anymore.

The rappers have gone in and created a lot of hit music based upon my influence. And they'll tell you if you ask.

Ninety percent of the general public aren't gangstas, so all of the rappers aren't going to be gangstas.

I actually met The Game in my hood on Crenshaw and Slauson. I was outside on the block with 20 of my homies. I see the Range Rover, and we all walked up to his car. I handed him my CD.

Every person I meet is a rapper, DJ, or makes beats.

I have a hip-hop podcast and get to meet all these rappers I love, so I feel very lucky.

I was really inspired, working with Odd Future.

When I made 'Detroit vs. Everybody,' I knew. I knew this for Eminem.

I'm really excited about 'Love & Hip Hop.'

Historically, hip-hop is about a generation of artists rapping about the realities they see in their neighborhoods or the 'truths' they hear growing up in their homes.

Hip-hop is a beautiful thing. I think that the music genre itself has created more millionaires than any other music genre before it, especially in our community.

Working with 50 Cent was great, you know what Im saying? It was just great to work with 50 Cent.

When I put out my first mixtape, '50 Cent is the Future,' it was the first tape where an artist did the entire tape in song format.

This is sort of not expected, but I would love to produce a record for Missy Elliott. It would be totally different, but she makes party music. 'Lose Control' was my favorite song when I was in 5th or 6th grade.

As long as I'm around the cats in the hip hop scene, they'll throw me a track and I'll write a rap over it.

I'd want to collaborate with Eminem, of all people. Maybe even Lauryn Hill.

If you asked me what pop is right now. I'd say hip hop.

I think the greatest hip-hop artist of all time is Jay-Z, without a doubt. He just keeps amazing me with his performance, and since '96, that guy has been producing at least one hit every summer and every winter. That's a pretty good resume.

I would love to do a collaboration with Lil' Wayne. I would have loved to sing on his song, 'How To Love.' I wanted to do the remix to that song really bad.

Hip-hop has survived as a sonic practice more than anything else. It's an approach to music-making based in sampling and rhyming over beats, that's proven far more versatile than its detractors thought it would.

I really love hip hop. My cousin Nas came out with an album 'Life Is Good,' and I love that album, but I also love Maroon 5.

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

Hip-hop is a way of life. It isn't a genre in truth in 'American Idol.'

I love hip hop, and I have a bunch of urban songs I write for fun that I can't put on my albums because people would laugh and point.

When I was on Arsenio Hall's show, he asked me about working with Kanye West or John Legend. I said I'd love to.