Sir Mix-a-Lot Quotes

The Dallas rap scene is growing, and hopefully we get to a level like Houston - everybody supporting each other, building each other up to be great.

We was able to become real successful in the mixtape space.

So So Def has been one of the most successful and consistent labels in the game in the last 10 years.

I'm so sick of hearing that U.K. hip hop doesn't get credit and success when I'm working to get it - for me and for others, too.

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

There's probably a bunch of Power Stripe floating through the Def Jam offices right now.

The last time I put out 'Raw,' that boosted me up in the underground to one of the top underground artists who was making moves and touring around the world.

Tupac Back' was the first single I had, but prior to that I already had 20-something songs in the street.

I didn't know of any rappers in Charlotte. Not to sound like I'm bragging, but I brought the music scene alive and shed the proper light on it. I took it to a whole other level when I started rapping.

You don't really need a lot of hype and to be famous to sell songs.

Hip hop is a multi-billion dollar business, and it was built off an opportunity that nobody else saw because they didn't understand the culture.

Those people are corny. You think I'm rolling to a club with Lyor Cohen or John Meneilly?

I think before, in the '80s, it was more about fashion and music videos and a lot of radio: getting out there and the fans learning who you were and your music.

It seemed record companies wanted bands to be creative because they didn't know how to manufacture underground music. We could do our own thing and go at our own pace. But that changed when major labels started wanting bands that would sell 7 million records.

I feel like artists like Three 6 Mafia and 8 Ball and MJG reached a point in their careers where they were hot and underground.

I love hip hop music and would do anything to help the culture blow up in China because it's been so underground. I just want people know how good this culture is, how good the music is, and how it can change your life.

I don't really know the logistics of a Soundcloud rapper.

I was an underground artist, but the underground status was successful. Coming from where I came from to see where rap is now, now artists are selling from a million to eight million copies.

Even the diss tracks was enhancing 'Panda.'

Def Jam is the reason why I started a label.

We owned the mixtape game, and every mixtape we put out was like an album.

'The Fire in The Booth' exposed me to a wider audience. I had hundreds of thousands of followers, loyal followers before that, that's been following me on the journey.

The music industry needs a TV outlet for hip-hop fans and artists.

I feel that in the underground world, there's not enough vocals out there.

Everybody nowadays rhymes, but out of the people that really, really do it well, it's still a small community of artists. We all tend to be in the same circles - people like my Wu-Tang brothers, or Black Thought from The Roots.