David Faustino Quotes

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

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 like Macklemore.

I had this little rap group, and we were called '2 Too Many'... We used to hang out in front of Jazzy Jeff's record studio every day.

People told me that Miley's '23' wasn't hip-hop. Let me tell you, she went in and owned that track.

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

I think the greatest hip-hop artist of all time is Jay-Z, without a doubt. He just keeps amazing me with his performance, and since '96, that guy has been producing at least one hit every summer and every winter. That's a pretty good resume.

I started off as a rapper from Thunder Bay, Ontario, believe it or not. There was a little group of 10 or 12 of us that would get together and copy each other's cassettes. So I was a rapper first, and it was that music that got me into this great entertainment world and got me out of Thunder Bay.

Three 6 Mafia have been around for a long time; we've made a lot of music. Anybody's music can influence anybody. I've heard people say that our music has influenced such and such, and it could be true, and it could not.

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

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.'

I just love working with Eminem. He's just one of my favorite rappers, and his lyrics - he's a true poet, and I enjoy that about him.

Guru's like Tupac. He just records and records and records.

Mobb Deep is a street-rap group. We from off the streets.

I guess I'm the guy from the Beastie Boys. I'm one of the guys from the Beastie Boys. I guess that's what I'll always identify myself as.

I'm a hip-hop showrunner.

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

I must say, I've been in the studio with Jay Z, dog... I thought the freestyle thing was a myth. But, bro!

I mean, Common was and is like my favorite rapper.

Ghostface, when it comes to hip-hop, was one of my favorite rappers and definitely one of my favorites in the Wu-Tang. He's also a really cool dude.

I was always into the West Coast rap, the production and the flows were always more appealing to me. I think my rapping days are over though.

I just sing over hip-hop beats, you know. That's what I've been doing. That's what I started in '09 in my dorm room.

I learned so much from listening to Jay-Z, M.O.P. and Gang Starr.

My favorite hip hop album would be the 'Miseducation of Lauren Hill.'

So in my personal opinion, I definitely feel like I'm a legendary emcee, and I also feel like we're a legendary brand, which is why I started rebranding ourselves years ago by saying 'The Legendary Roots Crew,' which is how we're introduced on 'The Tonight Show.'