collaboration in music Quotes

In music, you collaborate with people. It's supposed to be a mutually beneficial thing.

When I am with composers, I say I am a conductor. When I am with conductors, I say I am a composer.

It's the team that matters. Where would The Beatles be without Ringo. If John got Yoko to play drums the history of music would be completely different.

I had Ice Cube on my first album, "Bunker," and then I did a remix for Snoop Dogg. I've worked with Grandmaster Flash and Pharrell. It's a different work process and there's a different take with how you produce [hip-hop].

A lot of rappers want somebody to always sing on their records. If you can hold a note, they're gonna' ask you to come and be apart of their creativity. At that time, they were eager and on the streets selling drugs or in the studio making music. That was a big part of our lives were I grew up.

It ain't this big I, little You. Music is to be shared. Music is not a hustle. [Hip hop's become] cultural stripmining [by the major labels]. Some people get into this music to make a killing but music is a way to make a living.

I don't think competition is good in music. What is good, is the desire and the ambition to create your best work.

You can't change music by yourself.

No matter what part of the country you come from, you can always come together to make groundbreaking hip-hop.