Prodigy Quotes

Fashion has always been influenced by hip-hop.

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.

Hip-hop is all over the planet.

Hip-hop has never had boundaries - the more adventurous it is, the more popular it seems to be.

If you asked me what pop is right now. I'd say hip hop.

Rap music's been around for too long now to be inspirational. The words are, but the music isn't.

I realized how far-reaching the effect of hip hop was when I walked by a jewelry store named Bling in a small, rural town in France. Hip hop has made a huge impact on urban culture. Yet many brands still don't speak to young people in a tone and manner that's representative of them.

Hip-hop is huge in Canada, in Australia - everywhere.

People say I'm destroying hip-hop, and I'm like, there's so much hip-hop, and it's so popular, so I don't know why I have the power to destroy it.

I've known about hip-hop for a long time. The first time it intrigued me was when I saw this music video by Tyga on television. I was intrigued by the whole aesthetic. It was very unique.

All music now is influenced by Hip Hop. It's so deeply ingrained in the culture.

The whole world has changed much since the '80's. In the united States, rap music and country music dominate radio and that certainly wasn't the case in the early '80's.

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.

I think hip-hop is really fun right now... and that's why people are using dance beats and singing more.

Rock and rollers can get you the youth buzz, and younger people are fanatical readers.

I think the most exciting thing is that you expect people our age to know the music, but actually a lot of kids know the music, and if anything is left, we have left really good music, and that's the important part, not the mop-tops or whatever.

The rappers have gone in and created a lot of hit music based upon my influence. And they'll tell you if you ask.

People's musical tastes are fickle, and music can be a fashion.

The part of modern pop music I don't know much about is hip hop.

Metal is still the biggest music now in America.

Speaking out against rap music is useless, and it's futile. The reality is there's criticism for everything, but Jay-Z is one of the most remarkable artists of our time of any genre, and as a hip-hop artist he carries the weight of that art form with such splendor and grace and genius.

The market didn't define the music; the music defined the market.

Nirvana was pop. You can have distorted guitars and people say it's alternative, but you can't break out of pop music's constructs and still get extensive radio play and media coverage.

Hip-hop's always reached out to kids. If you look at the last 10 big albums it might seem ironic. But when I look at the history of this music it's always had a lot of positivity.

I turned a lot of people in white America - and not just white America, but middle-class America - into hip-hoppers, you know?