Bryson Tiller Quotes

There's gonna be a lot of great songs, but there ain't going to be another 'Trap Queen.'

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

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

You don't just go to the studio and say, 'I'm going to write a hit.' It becomes a hit when people like your compositions.

I remember being told 'Someone's gonna make a fortune out of this rap thing' and thinking 'no way'.

I feel like everything I do in the hip-hop world has an influence. People don't really notice what I did until somebody else does it. As far as hip-hop goes, I want to continue to make good music, and good art. I don't really follow the state of hip-hop.

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.

'Linger' was the first song I wrote after joining the Cranberries. I was 18, and the youngest member of the band was 16 at the time. We never imagined it'd be such a big hit.

Anybody that's from somewhere that's made it in music outside of New York or L.A., if it's a unique enough place, they'll always say, 'Dude's from Minnesota!' Or wherever, you know? So that's how I got the Philly connection.

Every person I meet is a rapper, DJ, or makes beats.

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

The end game is always a hit song.

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

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

My goal was to make good music and keep my name poppin'.

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.

There was this hip-hop collective called People Crew. And at the time in Korea, there was no real place to access rap music. So People Crew used to host this summer school program, which taught rapping and dancing. I begged my mom to attend that school to learn how to rap.

My original goal was to get into the Top 100. I listened to every song in the Top 100 every day. I knew them all - this is where the gods reside.

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

I plan on making my mark on the legacy of hip-hop, period, but also in Atlanta production because there's a lot of history there.

I just feel really lucky to have had some hits because we had a lot of time where we didn't have them. It's better to have a hit. You can ask anyone - U2, Green Day - and they'll tell you the same thing.

To be able to work with Bun B and be able to have a conversation, and the insights the OG has, and really be able to get just advice from him, is amazing.

I feel like me and YG are the closest to Dr. Dre and Snoop Dogg that people are gonna get.

To make the Billboard Hot 100 is my dream.

Before you have a hit song, all you're doing is banging on the door and screaming, 'I've got something I want to play...' Now with the hit songs, they're like, 'Okay man, we're listening. Whaddya got for us?'