Sean Paul Quotes

I know that people everywhere listen to hip-hop, but especially being from the South, you really get that influence. You go out, you party, and it's just always there. Also, I grew up listening and loving reggae music, too.

I like the way hip-hop is now. It's grown up enough so that it can get involved with politics if it feels like it.

Hip-hop is all about impact, baby. You can sell records, you can be two-times platinum, you can be gold... but if you lame, you lame, man. We try to provide the exact opposite of that. It's style, individuality, confidence. We exude that.

Rappers tend to use words sometimes that just rhyme and don't really mean nothing.

Hip-hop is an instant gratification, winners and losers circle, and often those who are losing give up after three or four, five years.

As long as I'm around the cats in the hip hop scene, they'll throw me a track and I'll write a rap over it.

When you're in Jamaica, unless you're in a tourist spot, you don't hear Bob Marley; you mostly hear dance hall music.

That's what my music... I'm working on a solo record right now, it's gonna be more hip-hop than anything, like electronic hip-hop, futuristic hip-hop. I'm probably gonna be rapping on it.

Rappers should just be able to perform what they create and satisfy the people that like and love them.

One thing I always loved about hip-hop music was the raw, boom-bap element - it felt powerful and manly.

I don't care what anybody says, there's nothing like the cultural influence of hip-hop. For me, hip-hop culture is involved in everything - it's in me, in who I am, in how I dress, how I talk. It's in my son and my wife.

Everything's pretty consistent in the industry, you know. There's a couple of naysayers, whatever, people who don't agree. But for the most part a lot of people believe in the new class of MC's that coming to the game.

Rap music's been around for too long now to be inspirational. The words are, but the music isn't.

All rappers are princesses like me.

I'm not more or less conscious than any other rapper out there.

Hip Hop has become real constrained. The creative juices and creative flows have been diminished.

Hip-hop is a way of life. It isn't a genre in truth in 'American Idol.'

It feels different.... When hip-hop was beginning for me, people weren't making the kind of money that they make now. It was for the love of doing it and having fun with it.

I was kind of influenced by the hip-hop culture.

I got tired of everybody repeating the same phrases in the hip-hop world.

I was really raised on hip-hop, and hip-hop introduced me basically to all the music I listen to now.

Hip-hop is always what's the coolest, and people want to touch that. A lot of the Pop artists always want to get that stamp of approval and be down.

Hip hop has been an integral part of my life and my whole career. I started off doing videos with Ice Cube and Dre and Mary J. Blige and TLC.

We'll never change the fact that we are hardcore hip-hop and we make rebellious hip-hop music, and we're going to keep doing that and progress with our production, progress with our lyrical styles, be creative, and just have fun with it.

Hip-hop basically controls the world through fashion, through music, through language, through culture. It's basically running the world, no matter what anyone wants to think, and that's just the way it is.