Grandmaster Flash Quotes

I actually fell in love with hip-hop before I fell in love with Jesus. I'm a fan of hip-hop, I love hip-hop. I don't even necessarily want to call myself 'Christian rapper.' You know, I don't want to put myself in that little box.

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

When people say to me 'what do you think of rap music?' my answer is there's no such thing. There's rap and there's music.

So what I'm trying to say is from a musical aspect for anybody to say that whatever they're doing in Florida is not Hip Hop or whatever they're doing in LA is not Hip Hop, who are these people to say that?

I listen to Lil Wayne, and then I listen to Merle Haggard.

I like to make music, I like rap music. Even if I'm white, I support that music. If I want to support it or any other white kid wants to support it more power to them.

I'm not hip-hop. I'm Tyler.

By denying its musical and artistic merit, hip hop's critics get to have it both ways: they can deny the legitimate artistic standing of rap while seizing on its pervasive influence as an art form to prove what a terrible effect it has on youth.

I loved rap, especially in the early days. But I wasn't trying to shove it down anybody's throats.

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.

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 you look at hip-hop, I want to do that: to spit fire and take our best from the ashes to build our kingdom; to recognize all the regional styles, conscious lyrics, the tracks, underground, mainstream, the way we treat each other. Lose the garbage and rebuild our scene.

I wouldn't categorize myself as R&B or hip-hop. I don't really know how to categorize myself. I'm still working out where I fit with that stuff. I kind of think of myself as pop.

I don't like political rappers.

I don't like calling it Christian rap. Titles are so limiting. It's hip-hop. I'm a rapper.

A lot of rap music can get repetitive.

I don't just listen to rap.

If you take 'Nothin' But a G Thang' by Dr Dre, that could also be an R&B record. 'Bonita Applebum' by A Tribe Called Quest could even be a jazz record. 'Bring Da Ruckus,' you gotta call it hip-hop.

I'm just real in-tune with music - I really listen to R&B more than I listen to rap.

The thing about hip-hop is they always want to classify you as one particular artist, but hip-hop is about going outside the box and expressing yourself however you want to.

You are not doing hip hop; you ARE hip hop.

All these ways we classify things as R&B and hip-hop and rock... It's bullshit. It's all music. If you put yourself in that box, then you won't be able to hear that it's all music at its soul.

I love the sounds of Latin jazz, R&B, hip-hop, alternative, all that stuff. I'm a radio kid.

I can relate to soul, R&B... whatever people want to call me is fine. I just hope it makes them feel something.