Prodigy Quotes

That's the reason why I'm making albums. That's the reason why I love hip-hop: It's a challenge every time.

I'm not Tupac or this prophetic dude or anything like that. I just want to make music and have fun.

My goal for the rap game is just to make a lot of really dope music. That's really where I keep my mindset at: Just being obsessed over making something crazy and new every day.

When I made Illmatic, I was trying to make the perfect album. It comes from the days of Wild Style. I was trying to make you experience my life. I wanted you to look at hip-hop differently. I wanted you to feel that hip-hop was changing and becoming something more real.

Everyone has the notion that hip-hop is messy and loose, but there's also another level to it.

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

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.

A lot of the hip hop artists don't write music. They write words.

I'm forever learning and that's why I'm always able to create new styles and new dimensions of hip-hop.

I wrote my first song, 'Conversion', to this little hip-hop instrumental. I went to an open-mic, plugged my iPod into the P.A., and sang over the beat.

Look at music: I've always loved hiphop and rap, and now there's this whole progressive movement, with De La Soul and Mos Def, Common. It's some of the best stuff around.

People can look to me as a teacher, but I consider myself a student of hip-hop.

I couldn't possibly have lived all the things that Ice-T on the records lived.

I'm only worried about what I'm doing or how I present music. I just try to do things I want to listen to, and I think that's what everybody else is try doing, too.

Nas is an artist who writes from his heart.

I feel like guys, girls, whatever it is, you just come out hoping to make the best record. You just try to have a conversation and just create what you've talked about. Whatever you find to fit the beat at the time, what the person is down for, wherever the beat takes you towards.

When I found Freestyle Fellowship, I started getting into the construction of rap. You get better at it the more you do it; you figure out the science and the math behind it.

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

When you look at hip-hop, I want to do that: to spit fire and take our best from the ashes to build our kingdom; to recognize all the regional styles, conscious lyrics, the tracks, underground, mainstream, the way we treat each other. Lose the garbage and rebuild our scene.

I feel like rap fit me better. I could hoop. I could have went and did that, but this is my lifestyle, my temperament, my mentality.

Every person I meet is a rapper, DJ, or makes beats.

I used to make demo tapes with cats that rocked with Russell Simmons and people like that. The history goes so far back; I've always been really focused on writing dope rhymes.

I grew up on hip-hop and crate-digging and those sensibilities are deeply ingrained in me.

I'm the best SoundCloud rapper.

I was born into hip hop and reggae, and then I started listening to more hardcore and punk bands like Bad Brains and the Suicidal Tendencies; they opened up a whole new world for me. They had something to say, and I could relate to them.