Gza Quotes

I now know how Tojo felt when he was planning Pearl Harbor.

I'm huge into '90s rap. It's my jam.

A lot of the music, and especially rap, I don't understand.

The attack on Pearl Harbor in 1941 completely crippled our Pacific Fleet.

When people say to me 'what do you think of rap music?' my answer is there's no such thing. There's rap and there's music.

I got tired of the Ramones around the time I quit and I really got into rap. I thought it was the new punk rock. LL Cool J was my biggest idol.

I listen to a lot of music, and I listen to some rap, and I do like listening to Biggie Smalls.

Back in the day, if someone said that hip hop and rap was a fad, that was a joke to me because they just didn't know what they were talking about. In reality, there were so many people who didn't know what they were talking about it.

My character is meant to know nothing about rap, and not to like it very much, but I know about it, because my kids make me listen to it. There's some rap I do like very much. I like Eminem, Blackalicious.

As far as rap goes, I grew up in Hollis, Queens, so early influences were people like Run DMC and LL Cool J.

The song, 'Life is Better,' is about hip-hop. It's about my love for hip-hop. And, you know, I go through all the artists from the beginning to the end, you know. And, well, not to the end, but since the beginning to now, you know.

I love listening to Lil' Wayne, Drake, and Eminem to get me fired up!

New York was at the forefront of rap, so because of all the great people who have gone before me, being a rapper from Queens, I have to live up to those standards. I'm basically just a regular guy who says what he feels and likes to joke. I like long walks on the beach... and I love rap.

I can rap. Not openly in the world, but it's important that people know! I can rap for a very specific reason, which is that in college I was in an improv comedy group, and we did musical improv.

The only time I ever really got into rap was back in the early '90s, and bands like A Tribe Called Quest, De La Soul, Gang Starr. Musically, they were really interesting. But when hip-hop acts start sampling Sting or Phil Collins, then I just don't get it at all.

He [General George Marshall] brought up the event that we were likely to be attacked perhaps (as soon as) next Monday, for the Japanese are notorious for making an attack without warning, and the question was what we would do. The question was how we should maneuver them in to the position of firing the first shot without allowing too much danger to ourselves. It was a difficult proposition.

It would be a Pearl Harbor type of attack.

It's funny: I don't listen to too much rap. I don't listen to too much older hip-hop. If I do, it's Ja Rule.

It would be pretty awesome to hear Eminem singing 'I'm a Good Girl'. Haha! Love Eminem!

My rap name as a kid was Big Tasty.

I've never been massive on rap, but there's that whole kind of culture of U.K. rap.

I was, like, 12 or 13; the first hip hop song I tried to rapping to was Macklemore's 'Thrift Shop,' and my English was so bad, but learning to rap to different songs really helped me with my pronunciation, and looking at the lyrics on Rap Genius and stuff like that.

I feel like every time I make a beat, and the Migos rap on it, it's gonna be fire.

Bone Thugs is one of my favorite rap groups of all time. I listened to them all the time when I was a kid.

I hate serious rap. It's boring.