Goldlink Quotes

I always envisioned myself being a rapper and being in the game and having success, but you never know what it feels like or how you're going to be when you're there.

People can look to me as a teacher, but I consider myself a student of hip-hop.

I want to take piano lessons, I want to study at university, I want to travel, I want to do other parts, make another movie.

That's the reason why I'm making albums. That's the reason why I love hip-hop: It's a challenge every time.

I've been producing records, and as early as my late teens, early 20s, I put out a hip-hop record and then the Ringside stuff. You know, I just feel like I want to spend these years realizing all of my ambitions. I feel like we live in an age in which you can chase your dreams with focus and a vision.

I'm a musician. I play instruments. I dabble in the hip-hop field. That doesn't take vocal ability necessarily.

I feel like I changed hip-hop.

I still have a fantasy of being a musician when I grow up.

I've probably wanted to be a rapper since I was a teenager. I was an actor and comedian and stuff, but I always wanted to rap, it was another outlet.

I got into DJing and making beats when I was about 17. I was always fascinated by the four elements of hip-hop: you know, writing, rhyming, breakdancing and graffiti.

I'd like to see people pay attention to the science of hip hop. The knowledge part, the political side of what hip hop could do, or where hip hop is gonna go. I always say it's gonna become universal as we become a galactic union.

A lot of the hip hop artists don't write music. They write words.

It was a little at a time but I broke out my Walkman and my lyric pad and started writing.

I wrote my first song, 'Conversion', to this little hip-hop instrumental. I went to an open-mic, plugged my iPod into the P.A., and sang over the beat.

Look at music: I've always loved hiphop and rap, and now there's this whole progressive movement, with De La Soul and Mos Def, Common. It's some of the best stuff around.

Common would come to my house and give me a freestyle verse. I'd make a new beat for it and put it with something else. That's how I met Eminem - he came to my house back when he first started. He gave me a bunch of freestyles, and that's how we built a relationship. Everyone came to my house.

I don't know how to be a rapper. I just know how to be me.

My only scheme was to be a rapper.

Being a musician is a noble profession.

I always wanted to operate at the highest altitude, just in terms of hip-hop and the music.

I loved writing lyrics for rap when I was in junior high. I loved studying, but somehow I wanted to be a rapper who can write and rap.

I was 17 when I first started rapping and 18 before I started taking it seriously - when I really knew I could rap and have fans and be a trendsetter.

When I was 24, I realized I could never be one of the best rappers, but I knew I had some of the best ideas.

No one will ever be able to come against me on the beats.