Hiphop Quotes

Look at music: I`ve always loved hiphop and rap, and now there`s this whole progressive movement, with De La Soul and Mos Def, Common. It`s some of the best stuff around.

I am playing every instrument on there, but it`s not really about me. I`m featuring a lot of great MCs that are friends of mine. I want to work with people that I`m friends with, that I get along with. I`m not just going to go out there and grab whoever`s hot at the moment. I want to connect with people I see eye-to-eye with, and make great music. Like I said, it`s not really about me. (about his hiphop sideproject, Fort Minor)

I feel like hip-hop right now is a lot of keyboard and minimalist stuff, and something I personally wanted to do is bring some of that organic feel back to it, that `90s hip-hop, maybe the Boogie Down Productions or that Native Tongues type of thing or Wu-Tang Clan. So it`s a lot of live instrumentation, but it still bangs like a sample. (about the uniqueness of the hiphop music he makes, like on the Fort Minor album)