Stephen Malkmus Quotes

I'm a fan of hip-hop. I'm a fan of rap, so anything new that's happening, I'm hip to it.

Pop has to exist and it's a great thing.

I am a hip-hop fanatic, and rock fanatic.

K-pop is a weird term because K-pop has everything - rap records - it's very pop-sounding; there are really boy-band-sounding records.

I have no idea about the state of rap. I don't pay attention. I just listen to old music that I have.

I would love to work with Drake. I think he's such a pop star, and he's dropping amazing songs.

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

Kanye on the track and LeBron. That's fire.

I have very little thoughts on Lil Xan. I think his music is very unique.

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

There are guys like Chance the Rapper; I'm a big fan of his.

Everybody wants to be a rapper - even country musicians.

I have this massive love for the whole culture of pop music. It's my fascination, my ongoing passion.

I love Katy Perry and Lady GaGa. I think GaGa's pushing the envelope every day and I really like that.

When I put out my first mixtape, '50 Cent is the Future,' it was the first tape where an artist did the entire tape in song format.

I just don't get that new hot music. I don't know anything about all these groups like U2.

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

Quentin Tarantino is a hip-hop artist. I told him, 'You're hip-hop!' You keep seeing surprises, and a clip here and there, because Quentin is hip-hop. A hip-hop artist will drop a single, leak something over here, and drop something over there 'cause he knows it's hot. He's on the spot with the way he does things.

If you asked me what pop is right now. I'd say hip hop.

It's VH1, it's everywhere, and you know music is just the world right now. People love music.

What I don't do is try to like become whoever I'm rapping with. The people who go get an LL album want to hear LL.

The whole thing about rock music, pop music, is it's really for kids.

Hip-hop has survived as a sonic practice more than anything else. It's an approach to music-making based in sampling and rhyming over beats, that's proven far more versatile than its detractors thought it would.

I really love hip hop. My cousin Nas came out with an album 'Life Is Good,' and I love that album, but I also love Maroon 5.

Pop music I have always loved best. But the more extreme, fascist-led examples of the music business I tend to detest the most.