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I'm practically a historian.
Anybody can curse on a record.
I never messed around with gangs.
Street raps have to be masculine.
Don't take everything so seriously.
My house is filled with boxes of books.
I got into rap when I first heard Sugarhill Gang.
That was my thing - the Raiders hats and all that.
MTV is cool. Hell, yes, they helped us sell records!
Snoop is West Coast. He represents that to the fullest.
I don't think I'll be playing the Mirage or the Tropicana when I'm 40.
I was rapping at school, at talent shows. I thought I was a little star.
I would listen to the other great MCs and work on my delivery all the time.
I want to say, to Mr. Gene Simmons, hip-hop is here forever. Get used to it.
Little kid see a cartoon character with a gun, he going to want to carry a gun, right?
I was listening to Chuck D, KRS, Rakim, Big Daddy Kane, all the greats, studying them.
If you're a black kid from the streets and somebody is rapping about parents not understanding, you'd laugh at that.
America was built on segregation. It's gonna stay segregated until everyone's equal, and that ain't gonna happen when it's a capitalistic society.
Ruthless Villain' was supposed to be E's song. But it was too fast for him, so when I rapped it, they was like, 'Man, you might as well just get in the group.'
When E started Ruthless, we didn't have to listen to anybody tellin' us what we had to do. That's why the music was so powerful, 'cause we didn't have no barriers.
Rock and roll is not an instrument. Rock and roll isn't even a style of music. Rock and roll is a spirit that's been going since the blues, jazz, bebop, soul, R&B, heavy metal, punk rock and, yes, hip-hop.
What Jazzy Jeff and rappers like him talk about is phony stuff. They're not into street raps, into telling what's really happening out there. They're talking about what the white world and the white kids can identity with.
When you're riding around with the fellas, you want to listen to something real masculine, like 'Boyz-in-the-Hood.' How would it look riding around and listening to something wimpy like 'I Need Love' or that phony stuff Jazzy Jeff does?