Rza Quotes

When I leave I always come right back here. The young spitter that everybody in rap fear.

I still gotta reacquaint myself with the hip-hop audience.

I don't even like New York rappers.

So I think hip-hop is moving and is going to continue to move in the direction of rappers just being honest with themselves, whether you're talking about Common and Mos Def or Nas and 50 cent.

I'm a big hip-hop fan since being a kid. It was the first music that spoke to me and made me feel like, 'Yeah.'

When I first got into the rap game, I had an early dream of unifying rappers.

I want to plug back into the hip-hop audience. Whether it be fans who grew up watching 'Yo!', or people who have become familiar with the culture via the Internet.

I like anything by 50 Cent and Snoop Dog. I love the way they mouth their way around words.

I went in reverse with this whole thing. People I've toured with were kids who consumed as much hip-hop as they could. I didn't do that until I started rapping.

XXL is the embodiment of hip-hop... Eminem even shouted it out in a song.

I grew up around it. That was what my friends were listening to - some of my closest friends are big hip-hop fans.

Ghost tells me every few years, Yo, you showed me this style ... I'm like, man, we the same style. At the end of the day, he's one of my favorite rappers, I'm one of his favorite rappers, and we just do it.

When I got a little older I was obsessed Lil Wayne. But then it was just as many British rappers - Dizzee Rascal I would always listen to.

Eminem is like the godfather of the hip-hop game.

This is the industry that wants [music], the rap industry.

I listen to a lot of Biggie, he's so lyrical.

I feel like the D.C. streets just love Gucci Mane. He's like a hood pastor.

I grew up listening to a lot of 2Pac and a lot of East Coast, West Coast rap; Bad Boy, Lil Kim, Foxy Brown, Biggie, 2Pac. Super hip-hop, super listening to that raw era of music.

I'm telling y'all Drake is that dude! Definitely listening to Quavo too!

My dad and uncles listened to a lot of rap. My dad is a big fan of LL Cool J. Driving in the car with him, we'd listen to Jay-Z and Nas. My sister listened to a lot of No Limit, so I listened to Master P. and Cash Money - Lil Wayne and Juvenile. They had jewelry and nice cars. I was drawn to them.

I can't look at TV without seeing something that's been influenced by rap. Even commercials for cereal. When I was small, I was a fan of cartoon characters - now the cartoon characters are rapping!

It might take a while but I think the rap game is the people that can do it. We're all role models more than athletes because athletes don't wear clothes like the kid in the hood and they don't walk and talk like the kids in the hood. We're closer to them than anybody because they can look at us and see them.

[Moses] is obsessed with hip-hop and wanted a gold chain like his uncle Jay-Z.

But I still rap like I'm on my Pharoahe Monch grind.

Lil Wayne is definitely the greatest youngest rapper alive.