If you're trying to be hip, be hip.
I used to do more melodic stuff, and I used to do more actual rap - like traditional hip hop vocals. I think my method of storytelling has led me to this point, at which I want to pare down my style. I think I give the lyrics more thought, and then when I try to perform the lyrics over the track I'll try it over and over again, and eventually the lyrics will sink into the track by the way I project them.
The music of the westerner comes from Africa, whether they like it or not. The majority of the instruments of the music, of the pop music, rock and roll, or R&B, hip hop, whatever it is, their roots trace back to Africa. So if you are black, white, yellow, or red, whatever you do, it doesn't matter, because your DNA is back in Africa.
How can hip hop be dead if Wu-Tang is forever?
I'm gonna try and change the course of hip hop again.
God knows I am not too hippy. Perhaps because I am too much around the hip and I fear fads for, like anybody else, I like something that tends to last.
Kids won't watch older movies - they want to see what's hip right now.
My stylist coached me on how to stand for photos. Always put one leg forward and a hand on your hip.
If Hip Hop has the ability to corrupt young minds, it also has the ability to Uplift them.
The '80s was brand new. It was AIDS. It was gangbanging. It was starting to become big dope-dealing, and crack was starting to flood the neighborhoods. And then you had hip hop, which was something new, other than what we were doing, which was sports, playing football, basketball, baseball. And I was excited.
I don't believe I've ever played a hip dude. I don't think I would have the wherewithal to do that.
Hip hop's got 30 years of history and we wanted to show that. A lot of us grew up with it.
I kind of grew up with hip hop and of course being from Detroit I'm a Motown man. Music is in our blood. When you're from Detroit, music is in your DNA.
I believe hip hop is being used in some mass way to influence underachievement.
Music is a huge part of my life, I enjoy every genre of music from jazz to country, and I even get down with a bit of hip hop.
There's a lathered sorrel stallion running through the Joshua trees and a young man in the saddle with his coat tails in the breeze. He's got a six gun on his right hip and a rifle at his knees and he's dealing in a game that he can't win.
Hip hop has evolved, thankfully. Kids are making music that is important to their lives and outlooks.
More than half of all the hip hop record sales are white people, and I think that might be a result of my record helping people to accept hip hop.
I realize I look very hip hop but I'm really more emo with a definite Brazilian flavor.
It's not about what you get out but what you put into hip hop as a genre.