Jay-Z Quotes

I worked with Busta back in the days, shoutout to the OG Busta Rhymes.

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 don't want to be a small-time, independent, successful rapper.

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

Even the diss tracks was enhancing 'Panda.'

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

Yeah, the next Wu album should be out by late '95.

Working with 50 Cent was great, you know what Im saying? It was just great to work with 50 Cent.

I toured with Skrillex, did an HBO commercial with Diplo. In the hip hop movement, I was the first artist Travis Scott ever featured with before he blew up. I had the songs with Chris Brown and Tyga. I've worked with some of the biggest artists in the world.

This is sort of not expected, but I would love to produce a record for Missy Elliott. It would be totally different, but she makes party music. 'Lose Control' was my favorite song when I was in 5th or 6th grade.

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

As a kid, I liked to write, but I didn't think that was a viable career choice. My dream, actually, was to be a white girl rapper and join Salt-N-Pepa - which obviously was a much more viable career choice.

I think that Eminem is very talented and remarkably bright, and I actually do like a lot of his music.

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.

Shady's great; I love Shady Records.

I always wanted to be one of the hottest rappers.

I would love to have a rapper on one of my songs, like Ludacris, or the 'it's so hot in here' guy, Nelly.

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

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 would love to do a collaboration with Lil' Wayne. I would have loved to sing on his song, 'How To Love.' I wanted to do the remix to that song really bad.

'Yeezus,' I really love it. I think the sound of it is cool.

I can't believe I got a major-label record deal. My music was quirky, and my voice was so odd and high and girlish, it was like a weird novelty act.

I am obsessed with rap music - it's such a big part of my life.

In 1999, I just came out of putting out the song 'Vivrant Thing' and 'Breathe and Stop' off the 'Amplified' album. Clive Davis signed me to Arista.

Jay-Z, he knows precisely who he's going for - 14-year-old white suburban girls.