Cheo Hodari Coker Quotes

I'd want to collaborate with Eminem, of all people. Maybe even Lauryn Hill.

When I first met Big, we were both at a 'Bad Boy' family photo shoot. I was kind of familiar with the name Biggie Smalls, but I really wasn't that much into hip-hop at the time, so I really didn't know that was him. He said he didn't even know I was an artist on 'Bad Boy.'

Guru's like Tupac. He just records and records and records.

I honestly felt someone was having me on when they were like, 'Drake wants you on this track.'

Nahmir got smash hits.

I guess I'm the guy from the Beastie Boys. I'm one of the guys from the Beastie Boys. I guess that's what I'll always identify myself as.

I'm a hip-hop showrunner.

I love Kanye for that. Being a producer, making beats, and being a rapper. He does it all.

I worked with Busta back in the days, shoutout to the OG Busta Rhymes.

People told me that Miley's '23' wasn't hip-hop. Let me tell you, she went in and owned that track.

In 2011, a lot of people didn't even know I did 'Tupac Back.'

There are guys like Chance the Rapper; I'm a big fan of his.

Working with 50 Cent was great, you know what Im saying? It was just great to work with 50 Cent.

When I put out my first mixtape, '50 Cent is the Future,' it was the first tape where an artist did the entire tape in song format.

This is sort of not expected, but I would love to produce a record for Missy Elliott. It would be totally different, but she makes party music. 'Lose Control' was my favorite song when I was in 5th or 6th grade.

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.

I'd love to collaborate with Drake. I think he's awesome.

My new music video, 'My Life' featuring Eminem and Adam Levine, the only person in the actual video who you can physically make out besides myself and Adam Levine is Andre Dirrell.

As a kid, I liked to write, but I didn't think that was a viable career choice. My dream, actually, was to be a white girl rapper and join Salt-N-Pepa - which obviously was a much more viable career choice.

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

The first song I did was over a Chief Keef beat - 'Understand Me.' I did that in, like, 2011 or 2012, I think.

Quentin Tarantino is a hip-hop artist. I told him, 'You're hip-hop!' You keep seeing surprises, and a clip here and there, because Quentin is hip-hop. A hip-hop artist will drop a single, leak something over here, and drop something over there 'cause he knows it's hot. He's on the spot with the way he does things.

I would love to do a collaboration with Lil' Wayne. I would have loved to sing on his song, 'How To Love.' I wanted to do the remix to that song really bad.

I'm not blowing my own trumpet here, but I made a rap song 20 years ago with Afrika Bambaataa.

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