Prodigy Quotes

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

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

The music is just real powerful when Mobb Deep and Nas work together.

Gangsta rap was the most important movement since the beginning of rock n' roll.

If Chief Keef can run around and say he's 300, I'm definitely 1400.

I can't listen to rap music; it's not my thing. They say that they're the modern poets: of course they are, but it's not for me.

I have a rap group called Outlaw Posse.

I felt like I related to East Coast lyricism a little more. Because I couldn't be super gangsta.

Chief Keef scares me. Not him specifically, but just the culture that he represents.

But, Eminem... No, I've loved rap for a long time, especially when it got out of its first period and became this gangsta rap, ya know this heavy rap thing? That's when I started to fall in love with it. I loved the lyrics. I loved the beat.

I'm not one of those pop guys. That's for wimps like Vanilla Ice.

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

Who gave it that title, gangsta rap? It's reality rap. It's about what's really going on.

I got into hip hop from my uncle; he was always playing us Kool G Rap and Big Daddy Kane. He was a bad boy, and my mum was not really happy that I was hanging out with him.

Part of my affinity with urban music comes from being on 'Kids Incorporated,' 'cos we used to sit around and listen to Chaka Khan and Prince, and I got influenced by all that. Then gangsta rap got started, and I was infatuated with that - maybe that's why I'm fascinated by guns.

They keep the song as street as it needs to be. It's got a good catchy hook where it can do what it needs to do on the radio, but they keep the song street where it will keep credibility in the hood.

Nas always been my favorite rapper, but 50 Cent, he changed my way of thinking about music 'cause he was so detailed in his music, I knew that wasn't lying. I never felt Tupac that way; I never felt Biggie that way. I love Nas music, but I never felt and believed like, 'This is for real.' 'Cause I grew up that gangsta lifestyle.

I never liked socially conscious rap. I like rap that's physical, that's about a beat and bass and repetition.

My friends put me on to Mobb Deep when I was a little kid. I've always been a big fan.

The Notorious B.I.G.'s album 'Ready to Die' is an incredible chart of a man's life - it begins with his birth, you hear his mother giving birth, and it goes through the decades.

I grew up with bubble-gum rap. Seriously, in 2003, 2004, it was Chingy 'Right Thurr.'

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

I actually met The Game in my hood on Crenshaw and Slauson. I was outside on the block with 20 of my homies. I see the Range Rover, and we all walked up to his car. I handed him my CD.

My dad used to be a rapper, he had a rap group. They did proper old school, boom-bap music. He had a high top and everything.

Wu-Tang has opened many doors for hip hop.