Elvis Mitchell Quotes

With 'Hip-Hop Saved My Life,' I attempted to make 'Kick, Push,' but for rappers. To give a real basic play-by-play of the life of a rapper before he makes it - if he ever makes it, because you can get stuck in that and be trying to make it for the rest of your life.

'8 Mile' is so revered, it's like, everywhere I go, somebody's talking about it.

Mobb Deep's music, we represent poverty. That's what made us. That's who made us. That's who brought us up.

I love rap because it talks about pain that comes authentically from the ghetto. It moves me.

I liked the fact that 'My Week With Marilyn' wasn't a biopic.

I'm cool with Jay-Z. Jay-Z is genuinely my friend.

Can't a rapper insist, like other artists, on a fictional reality, in which he is somehow still on the corner, despite occupying the penthouse suite?

I got Ice Cube his start. I also launched Eazy-E.

In the Ghetto, I'd been trying to write for years.

I'm the hip-hop Quincy Jones of today.

I come from a place, with all due respect, who's never had a music star in hip-hop. So the odds is already against me.

I would do a documentary about Jay-Z. Yes, I would.

I have the weirdest career in hip-hop, and I say that because I started so young. I started So So Def when I was 17 years old.

Five years before 'Port of Miami,' I was to a point where I may have even felt like quitting... the style and the wordplay of my lyricism was more complex than what Miami was used to.

Eminem is just incredible. That's the word that comes to mind: 'incredible.'

Eminem is a master.

Most biopics are stories of people who achieve something. It's an easier graph, a rags-to-riches story, or wanting something and reaching that. Sanju's life is not actually a case like that.

N.W.A. were the first great rap audio documentarians of the problems in our inner cities.

I've been Tech N9ne since '88.

I know I'm going to be the next big hip-hop artist. I just want to save hip-hop... that's my job.

Some guy was just like, 'You rap fast, man. Like a little machine gun,' and from that moment, I was Lil Uzi.

'Hustle & Flow' came out, and I was really rooting for 'Hustle & Flow' because, you know, it was a hip-hop movie, and it was a good movie. It was well acted.

When I was 20, I was the hustler - rubbing my temples, stressed, trying to get out the streets, trying to take my life to another side of the game with something I really loved to do: rap music.

When I first watched '8 Mile,' it was amazing. It got me. I loved it.

Dr. Dre is the most influential artist and producer in hip-hop history.