Wale Quotes

I've been a hip hop head forever. So when it turned out that we were gonna start getting celebrity guests for every show, I wanted rap guys from the get-go.

This is the industry that wants [music], the rap industry.

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.

I like the way hip-hop is now. It's grown up enough so that it can get involved with politics if it feels like it.

Back in the day, if someone said that hip hop and rap was a fad, that was a joke to me because they just didn't know what they were talking about. In reality, there were so many people who didn't know what they were talking about it.

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 chose to deal with the underdogs on '1 Train.' I could've got the biggest superstars in the rap game, but why do that when you can let the young boys shine?

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

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 got tired of everybody repeating the same phrases in the hip-hop world.

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

I just appreciate the love that I get and support from hip-hop.

I was one of the first rappers to have his own forum. Then 50 Cent made 'Thisis50.com,' and everyone made sites just like it.

Real hip-hop is Migos, Future.

Lil Wayne is doing his thing, and so is Drake.

Hip hop is a multi-billion dollar business, and it was built off an opportunity that nobody else saw because they didn't understand the culture.

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

I don't know how the rap game is, because I'm a fan of reality, and the rap game's entertainment.

I think it's impossible for hip-hop to be a dying art form.

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

I was listening to Young Jeezy and Shawty Red, and to me, the trap music they had was something special.

Whether you like him or not, hip hop needs Drake.

I always say that I'm a hip-hop fan, and I'm definitely a Drake fan.

I love Pusha T and The Clipse.