Statik Selektah Quotes

Yeah, it's Pushaz Ink for life. Me, YG, and Mustard started a movement, and we brought back the West.

I knew that as a DJ from 1970 on up that I would eventually come with this sound. I brought out all these other break beats that you hear so much on a lot of these records.

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.

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.

I'm a fan of hip-hop. I'm a fan of rap, so anything new that's happening, I'm hip to it.

J Dilla is the top producer of all time, in my book, alongside Timbaland and Pharrell. Then DJ Mustard.

I'd love to work with Snoop Dogg, Skrillex, Lil Wayne, Kendrick Lamar.

I used to make demo tapes with cats that rocked with Russell Simmons and people like that. The history goes so far back; I've always been really focused on writing dope rhymes.

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

I like Jaykae. He's a great artist, and I absolutely love Dr. Dre's album and a bit of Calvin Harris now and then.

I can do every type of music, but hip-hop was my way into the game.

I'm not a DJ, I'm not a scenester.

Everybody wants to be a rapper - even country musicians.

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

You can still make music that people love, but there won't be more innovation. I started listening to electronic music a long time ago. But mostly I listen to rap. I think rap is the most interesting.

I'm trying to be like the old Roc- A-Fella and Bad Boy, influencing people culturally but having hits at the same time.

I am a hip-hop fanatic, and rock fanatic.

Detroit is right now a new Mecca for Hip Hop.

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 always wanted to be one of the hottest rappers.

Hip-hop is a part of rock & roll because it comes from DJ culture. DJ culture is the embodiment of all genres and all recorded music, if you actually pay attention to it.

DJs play a big responsibility of what hip-hop is doing... At the end of the day, it's up to us to control and to own hip-hop. DJs need to challenge us rappers. They got so much power, they need to challenge us.

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'd love to do a live album, like a little bit old school but still progressive, influenced maybe by more electronic music. I like everything, but I don't know anything about music. So it comes in to a lot of different ingredients. I love hip hop.

I remember times when the whole music scene was just flourishing.