David Draiman Quotes

Everyone has the notion that hip-hop is messy and loose, but there's also another level to it.

That's what my music... I'm working on a solo record right now, it's gonna be more hip-hop than anything, like electronic hip-hop, futuristic hip-hop. I'm probably gonna be rapping on it.

I know that people everywhere listen to hip-hop, but especially being from the South, you really get that influence. You go out, you party, and it's just always there. Also, I grew up listening and loving reggae music, too.

A lot of rap songs don't usually have a lot of melody per se.

Hip-hop is all about impact, baby. You can sell records, you can be two-times platinum, you can be gold... but if you lame, you lame, man. We try to provide the exact opposite of that. It's style, individuality, confidence. We exude that.

Everything we release with Tool is inspired by our music.

When you sit down and think about what rock 'n' roll music really is, then you have to change that question. Played up-tempo, you call it rock 'n' roll; at a regular tempo, you call it rhythm and blues.

I never liked socially conscious rap. I like rap that's physical, that's about a beat and bass and repetition.

When you talk about rap you have to understand that rap is part of the Hip-Hop culture.

Hip-hop is not all '2 Chainz' - although '2 Chainz' is awesome. How he does that with metaphors, I don't know.

We gotta keep our sound alive, that dark hip-hop.

I listened to a lot of Jay Z and Nas, stuff like that, so I was always New York-influenced. I think I have that New York flow.

The difference between a Black Thought album and a Roots album is the texture, the instrumentation.

I always viewed myself as kind of hip-hop's outcast, or hip-hop's stepson.

In hip-hop, sometimes that pace is so fast that you miss things. I don't mean literally miss lyrics; I just think there's an emotion in what these cats are saying that gets by you. When you slow things down, there's this emotion, this yearning.

I'm fascinated with the regionality of rap music.

I can't listen to rap music; it's not my thing. They say that they're the modern poets: of course they are, but it's not for me.

Hip-hop isn't dead by any means, but it's not something I define my black identity with.

I don't think I make dance music. It's not even 4/4. And it's slow.

There's a heavy hip-hop influence in my music, some trap influence, but it's always lyrical.

They didn't know what to do with rap music. You walk into Epic, and they're wearing straight-leg khakis with creases, Prada shoes with tassels. They couldn't comprehend where I was coming from.

We brought fashion, fun, and femininity to hip hop.

My music isn't rappity-rap-rap-rap.

Our music attracts the people that we rap about and make music about, and they come out and actually do it.

I feel like hip-hop is the new pop because it has a lot of influence because of our culture.