Rick Ross Quotes

I have a love-hate relationship with the Grammys because I don't see the music world as a competitive sport.

At the end of the day, the Grammys are about recognizing genres that are making an impact.

Black music is too big and too powerful not to have its own awards show.

I wanted to appeal to people who've never really listened to hip-hop or really given it a chance before. I've also tried to incorporate all my favorite lifestyle things in the music. Of course, 'Fashion Killa' is one of peoples' favorites because it just expresses how much I like fashion.

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

I'm not an artist that has a big, huge radio record that's going to be on BET.

Books don't live and die by awards. You don't listen to an Hector Lavoe album because it won some awards.

DJs play a big responsibility of what hip-hop is doing... At the end of the day, it's up to us to control and to own hip-hop. DJs need to challenge us rappers. They got so much power, they need to challenge us.

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.

I always felt like the Academy was very late in acknowledging things. I've seen them do it with hip hop when it should have been acknowledged. It was already penetrating mass levels of culture and radio, and yet they wouldn't give it a proper category.

I don't think that the Grammys are in any way a just way of grading music.

I'll watch the Grammys and think, 'You hardly even see people playing guitar,' and it freaks me out.

It's amazing to be nominated for the Brits' Critics' Choice Award 2016. It's such a significant award that highlights the importance of new music, so it's a genuine honour to have been nominated alongside some other incredible new acts from the U.K.

I have a hip-hop podcast and get to meet all these rappers I love, so I feel very lucky.

I want people to know that I'm not just another kid M.C. I'm actually a fan of good music and hip-hop.

Taylor Swift - I don't ever hear anything of hers where I'm like, 'Oh, so-and-so could've cut that.'

The American Music Awards mean more to us; that's a people's award, and we're a people's band. The Grammys are the critics.

They didn't know what to do with rap music. You walk into Epic, and they're wearing straight-leg khakis with creases, Prada shoes with tassels. They couldn't comprehend where I was coming from.

I feel like a celebrity is someone who sits and takes pictures with people 'cause they love themselves and how they look and how people look at them. But I just want to be regular and respected for my artistry because music doesn't necessarily have a face.

I never go to the Grammys. I just never go. I don't know if I care enough, and I went because my son wanted to go, and they asked us to present Best Hip Hop Group of the Year. You know, we had two records from Compton in there, and it was just like a cool thing to do, and to do with your son, and it was just cool. But we was the first award up, so after I did my thing I just jumped in the car and came on back home.

Forever, for me, it was just about trying to make it and become a known person and loved and revered in hip-hop and the culture. But then, I even realized that that isn't really important. What's mainly important is just the fans and the connection that you have as a man and an artist.

The first time I arrived in Hollywood for the Grammy Awards, I thought I'd bump into people who mattered, such as Ry Cooder or Randy Newman. I was disappointed to see the people I'd always thought of as pop stars. They would charge around the stage rather than enjoy the music.

I love Justin Bieber, love Drake.

There are not many people that I respect more than rappers. I'm a huge fan of hip hop. It's incredible, one of the most influential things to me. It takes real genius to be able to do well. It's a very deep art form.

With the BBC Sound list, it's just humbling even being put aside those other musicians - people like Alicia Kava, who I am a huge fan of.