Gza Quotes

Rap is the only interesting music left - it's the only genre that's still pushing itself, and experimenting in a way that I find exciting.

Really, I listen to more hip hop probably than most other things. That's where I get a lot of my influence from because it's so eclectic. So that's what I love.

I'm a fan of hip hop music, so I always used a hip hop element in my music anyway.

In my opinion, hip-hop has a lot to do with rock and roll, because at one point it was considered an alternative - edgy, independent. Hip-hop is pots and pans the way that punk is garage. You make something out of nothing.

Hip-hop is the last true folk art.

Hip-hop is a cultural expression - it's embracing.

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

The part of modern pop music I don't know much about is hip hop.

They use all of the music that I did in the '50s, '60s and the '70s behind people like Tupac and LL Cool J. I'm into all that stuff.

Being a student of hip-hop in general, you take technical aspects from places. You may take a rhyme pattern or flow from Big Daddy Kane or Kool G Rap.

My take on rap is driven by straightforward American southern rock and blues.

I'm a rapper-singer, or singer-rapper - it's not one before the other. I do both.

When I was growing up, hip-hop was still a pretty specialised thing.

I'm a huge hip-hop fan from way back in the day.

I'm a total hip-hop geek. That's my favorite kind of music to listen to while getting ready.

My earliest memories of rap music was mixed with my earliest memories of reggae music. They were big sounds around the way, heavy bass lines, strong messages, definitely.

I'm serious; I don't, I don't rap. I flow; I'm a flow-er. You've got rappers, you got MCs, and then you got flow-ers, I'm a flow-er.

Rap was my drug.

I loved hip-hop. The first stuff I heard was Public Enemy, and I couldn't believe it. It was amazing, and I've always loved hip-hop.

People said that way back in the early days I was probably one of the first rappers; the reason is that I couldn't sing, so I had to talk! Lou Reed was probably the one who started it all.

You have the core hip-hop, which would just be beats and breaks, more something like what you hear with DJ Premier. Then you get into the more highly produced hip-hop, which is something like what DJ Khaled does. But at some point, it starts to get kind of pop.

When you talk about rap you have to understand that rap is part of the Hip-Hop culture.

Hip-hop is getting to the point now where they are going to start sounding like Al Jarreau or Bobby McFerrin or some of the other poets. Some of the better rappers can rap real fast without even melodies. It'll get to that same point.

Rap music is the only vital form of music introduced since punk rock.

Hip-hop is too young to put a definition on it.