Prodigy Quotes

By the time I was a teenager, when I went outside the house, it was about hip-hop all the time. Nothing but hip-hop, block parties.

Chief Keef scares me. Not him specifically, but just the culture that he represents.

Rap is definitely a youthful expression.

Ultimately I am happy that everybody is embracing hip hop and the sounds from the streets.

Hip-hop is like underground. I don't know if hip-hop exists anymore. I don't know if it does.

Hip-hop is all over the planet.

I am looking to get into the grime rap U.K. scene.

Part of my affinity with urban music comes from being on 'Kids Incorporated,' 'cos we used to sit around and listen to Chaka Khan and Prince, and I got influenced by all that. Then gangsta rap got started, and I was infatuated with that - maybe that's why I'm fascinated by guns.

They keep the song as street as it needs to be. It's got a good catchy hook where it can do what it needs to do on the radio, but they keep the song street where it will keep credibility in the hood.

The first rappers I ever got into were Wu-Tang, Mobb Deep, and Nas. Those are the guys. Those are the dudes that flipped my wig.

Hip-hop was fast, originally. It was always fast music.

I love hip hop, and I have a bunch of urban songs I write for fun that I can't put on my albums because people would laugh and point.

I really like the whole urban, hip-hop kind of thing.

The music is just real powerful when Mobb Deep and Nas work together.

Mobb Deep is a street-rap group. We from off the streets.

I've been interested in hip-hop since it first appeared: the fact that it was born not in the music industry but on the street, the idea of using a turntable as an instrument, singing vividly about reality instead of typical love songs, and its links to graffiti and dance.

Hip-hop was indifferent to Broadway. We didn't need Broadway, but I think Broadway needed hip-hop.

I can't listen to rap music; it's not my thing. They say that they're the modern poets: of course they are, but it's not for me.

Now I will bop my head to gangsta music - I'm not going to lie.

I grew up on a wide range of stuff. OutKast, they been around for over 20 years, and some of the L.A. cats like Defari, Dilated Peoples and Likwit Crew. I was always going to these shows and catching the KRS-One tennis ball, as he would throw those out, EPMD. I could go on and on.

I always loved hip-hop, being a black little kid. I always used to freestyle on the bus when I was young. It was always a part of my life.

I'm still going to sing these songs because trap is a type of music very popular in the streets, and people want to hear it.

Anything that Havoc or I do is always going to point back to Mobb Deep.

Hip-hop is a worldwide culture. We have permeated every urban environment.

Trap music, to me, is hustling music.