Troy Carter Quotes

I got started in 1995, working in a group called The Cash Money Click.

I met Mos Def around that time but I didn't hook up with him until I was about 17 or 18.

Well, Eminem, you know, I know him longer. Ive been signed to his label since 2001 and he's a good friend.

When I first met Big, we were both at a 'Bad Boy' family photo shoot. I was kind of familiar with the name Biggie Smalls, but I really wasn't that much into hip-hop at the time, so I really didn't know that was him. He said he didn't even know I was an artist on 'Bad Boy.'

Yeah, it's Pushaz Ink for life. Me, YG, and Mustard started a movement, and we brought back the West.

I love Kanye for that. Being a producer, making beats, and being a rapper. He does it all.

I have a rap group called Outlaw Posse.

I'm a retired MC.

I was bringing the whole music, hip-hop, art, break dancing and urban cultural thing to the downtown table.

I think English people were a lot better at breakdancing than they were at making records.

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'd want to collaborate with Eminem, of all people. Maybe even Lauryn Hill.

I was just glad to meet somebody outside of my group of small town friends who was into music. Somebody else who had aspirations to do something more than sing at a record hop.

I'd love to collaborate with Drake. I think he's awesome.

There weren't a lot of career opportunities in crazy-fast hardcore punk, so you didn't have a lot of ambition, just the love and passion to play music with your friends.

The first song I did was over a Chief Keef beat - 'Understand Me.' I did that in, like, 2011 or 2012, I think.

Shady's great; I love Shady Records.

I'm not blowing my own trumpet here, but I made a rap song 20 years ago with Afrika Bambaataa.

Hip Hop is thee dominant youth culture in the world right now.

I signed to Def Jam and within two months, I heard that Ja Rule was looking for someone to do a song with.

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.

My passion is music, you know, and music influences culture, influences lifestyle, which leads me to 'Roc-A-Wear'. I was forced to be an entrepreneur, so that led me to be CEO of 'Roc-A-Fella' records, which lead to Def Jam.

Rapping was something I always wanted to do, so after school, my friends and I would catch the bus to my house and just sit there writing songs, every day.

DJing is how I got into So So Def.

Hats off to T-Pain for the 'Low' record.