Damon Dash Quotes

Coming from Ruff Ryders, there would be, like, 30 guys in the studio at once, and then me, trying to do my own thing.

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 do think 'The Notebook' is a darn good movie.

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.

I thought 'Cabin in the Woods' was really incredible.

I have considered rap music stars, and there is one in my new book, Lovers and Players, and there is also a hip-hop music mogul who I think you will like a lot.

I thought 'The Bank Job' was a really quality movie.

I loved 'Moonlight.' I thought it was really beautiful. Really great.

I thought 'The Social Network' was fantastic.

There's hip-hop music in 'Power,' but the show is not about the hip-hop industry.

I consider 'Dope' a part of the new mainstream.

I admire hip-hop artists because they drop so much music.

We owned the mixtape game, and every mixtape we put out was like an album.

When I first got to Los Angeles, hip-hop music was a scary thing not only to white America but to middle-class black America.

I really like 'Disaster Artist.'

I grew up carrying crates of records for Will Smith and those guys.

Hip-hop ain't died because of the South, that's retarded.

I don't know enough about hip-hop, though I've heard some great hip-hop. I just did a thing with Qwest Love - we did a performance together in Memphis at the Folk Alliance Festival, and we had a great jam and a conversation.

Hip hop has been an integral part of my life and my whole career. I started off doing videos with Ice Cube, and Dre, and Mary J. Blige, and TLC. So I've been involved in hip hop since the beginning.

The U.S government hates rap music

What's up, gangstas? It's the M-I-Double-Tizzle.

The thing about the state of hip-hop is that people are too concerned. I don't think that there's a problem with being too concerned about videogames, especially for me, because I'm not in the industry. I'm just a consumer. But hip-hop is constantly like, "What are you doing for the scene?"

If lyrics sold then truth be told/I'd probably be just as rich and famous as Jay-Z.

When I got a little older I was obsessed Lil Wayne. But then it was just as many British rappers - Dizzee Rascal I would always listen to.