G-Dragon Quotes

It took me a while to like Wu-Tang's style.

I grew up listening to a lot of early '90s hip-hop. I had the debut Wu-Tang album, Biggie, Snoop, that kind of stuff. Hieroglyphics, the Gravediggaz. I remember D.O.C.'s 'The Portrait of a Masterpiece' was something that had a big influence on me.

When Wu-Tang came, Wu-Tang was for that era, right there. When Dre had it in the West Coast, it was for that time. Biggie and them, it was for that time.

I listen to rap a lot. I love Nas, Damien Marley, and Lauryn Hill.

I grew up around it. That was what my friends were listening to - some of my closest friends are big hip-hop fans.

I don't even listen to hip-hop.

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

I can't really even name a person I like in hip-hop music.

I grew up listening to a lot of Snoop Dogg and the Wu-Tang Clan. Actually, I was a huge Wu-Tang fan.

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

Public Enemy is the security of the hip-hop party.

My real name's Rakim - my parents named me after the god MC himself.

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.

The first rappers I ever got into were Wu-Tang, Mobb Deep, and Nas. Those are the guys. Those are the dudes that flipped my wig.

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

As far as rap, I was more of a Mobb Deep guy rather than a Tribe guy.

Well unfortunately I didn't work with Andre much. But rap is a strong presence in the culture and anyone is going to grateful for its appearance, grateful for any kind of music that has the kind of effect that rap has had on us all.

I listen to everything: hip hop, R&B, alternative, pop. I love JCole, so I'm always listening to him. Kendrick and Drake.

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.

Favorite rap album? Damn. Lil Wayne's mixtapes... He got a lot of good mixtapes like 'Da Drought 3.'

I've always been like the No. 1 Boston hip-hop fan.

I think I can pinpoint the moment that I realized that I enjoyed hip-hop music and it was the video game called Need For Speed Underground.

I fell in love with hip-hop a little bit late; I grew up on Another Bad Creation and Kris Kross. But my mom got me a TV in my room, and I remember seeing Biggie's 'Give Me One More Chance,' and I was like, 'Oh, this is how a house party looks!' I really, really fell in love with it when Tupac created 'Dear Mama.'

When I started picking out music for myself, I was a hip-hop kid. DMX, The Roots, Outkast, people like that.

I love Drake and Future, and I gotta bump some Jay Z for that New York flavour too.