Eve Jihan Jeffers Quotes

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.

There's hip-hop music in 'Power,' but the show is not about the hip-hop industry.

I was young and felt like it was opportunity 'cause they were moving units back then on the underground scene.

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.

The cool thing about G.O.O.D. Music is it's a bunch of great ideas, and I'm one of those ideas.

We owned the mixtape game, and every mixtape we put out was like an album.

I grew up carrying crates of records for Will Smith and those guys.

I actually did a remix for Katy Perry, and her management didn't respond.

My advice to young people wanting to make music and to be in this industry is to really spend your time making music. Make so much music you have no friends. Make music. Figure out what it is you love, and... because if you're making cool art, then everything else will fall into line.

People are like, 'Wow you started your own record label,' and treat me like I'm some sort of innovative genius, when I'm not at all. You've got the Internet and music - you put them together, and people hear your music.

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.

When I graduated, I was going to go to school for law, but had such an affinity for hip-hop. It was like walking into a casino and I decided to bet everything on hip-hop, and I hit! My hit wasn't just a hit for me, it was a hit for everyone in this culture.

For a producer, you want to be in L.A. You want to be close to the action, and in L.A. there are always singers, artists, songwriters, collaborators and other producers. It's easy to get access to all that, which gives you more opportunity to work records.

I've never been in a band, but I've hung out with a lot of musicians and helped them with their shows. It's something that I'm really drawn to.

First of all, I think that is true, if you are a musician, particularly on the come, that you do have to end up in one of these musical centers, some way, to be viable, saleable and so on.

People are afraid to ask musicians to be involved in projects because they anticipate being turned down. Young artists hesitate before contacting me. People in my position don't get approached often enough.

Shady's great; I love Shady Records.

I'm not a producer and I don't even know the places my producer goes to, thankfully.

Everyone in the music industry is so fun and laid-back.

Los Angeles and New York are the big centers of the music industry worldwide so of course it can be hard for newcomers who don't know what to expect from the music business.

I feel like everything I do in the hip-hop world has an influence. People don't really notice what I did until somebody else does it. As far as hip-hop goes, I want to continue to make good music, and good art. I don't really follow the state of hip-hop.

I lived in an area where there were a lot of rock musicians, and we got together regularly in our studios.

I got started in 1995, working in a group called The Cash Money Click.

As with all the other rappers I've worked with, Biggie and I shared common ground. Even though Biggie grew up in Brooklyn and I grew up in Chicago, we came from the same 'hood.

MMG for life.