Amanda Seales Quotes

I'm not one of those pop guys. That's for wimps like Vanilla Ice.

I've been a hip hop head forever. So when it turned out that we were gonna start getting celebrity guests for every show, I wanted rap guys from the get-go.

Back in the day, if someone said that hip hop and rap was a fad, that was a joke to me because they just didn't know what they were talking about. In reality, there were so many people who didn't know what they were talking about it.

Rap music's been around for too long now to be inspirational. The words are, but the music isn't.

All the rappers in rave music are like the sloppy seconds of rappers who couldn't make it.

'Hood Rich' was super important to Cash Money.

I am not a rapper. And I believe people in India are not even clear with the whole idea of rap or what it signifies.

Kendrick Lamar deserves a Grammy. He's one of the biggest, most influential rappers of my generation.

I'm the first rapper ever popping his collar.

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!

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

We culture. Rap is the new rock 'n roll. We the rockstars. It's been like that for a minute, Hedi Slimane!

Personally, I just think rap music is the best thing out there, period. If you look at my deck in my car radio, you're always going to find a hip-hop tape; that's all I buy, that's all I live, that's all I listen to, that's all I love.

I don't like rap music at all. I don't think it's music. It's just a beat and rapping.

I've been called everything. Gangsta rap. I've been called conscious rap. You know, everything. Whoever feels like calling it whatever they want to call it, that's on them.

Hip-hop is a beautiful thing. I think that the music genre itself has created more millionaires than any other music genre before it, especially in our community.

I like the way hip-hop is now. It's grown up enough so that it can get involved with politics if it feels like it.

I made the decision that I was going to make rap music in, like, fourth grade, so it's been something I was saying for a long time.

To me, rap music is bigger than who's the coolest rapper, the biggest rapper. It's everything about your personality.

I got tired of the Ramones around the time I quit and I really got into rap. I thought it was the new punk rock. LL Cool J was my biggest idol.

You have to come in on a professional level to make it, otherwise you just can't get into rap.

Waka Flocka Flame, some of his lyrics are, like, common sentences. But just the way he is, and the way he delivers it, makes it this crazy metal hip-hop.

If you asked me what pop is right now. I'd say hip hop.

I like underground rappers - Cory Gunz is a young kid that's been really doing his thing. I'm a Gym Class Heroes type of fan even though they're not new, but they're definitely trendsetters.

I think the greatest hip-hop artist of all time is Jay-Z, without a doubt. He just keeps amazing me with his performance, and since '96, that guy has been producing at least one hit every summer and every winter. That's a pretty good resume.