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.
MC Ren
Let everything fall wherever it's going to fall.
I don't think I'll be playing the Mirage or the Tropicana when I'm 40.
Little kid see a cartoon character with a gun, he going to want to carry a gun, right?
Snoop is West Coast. He represents that to the fullest.
Don't take everything so seriously.
I never messed around with gangs.
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.
I got into rap when I first heard Sugarhill Gang.
I want to say, to Mr. Gene Simmons, hip-hop is here forever. Get used to it.
Street raps have to be masculine.
I've tried to put God first.
If you're a black kid from the streets and somebody is rapping about parents not understanding, you'd laugh at that.
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?
Eazy always had jokes.
I don't want people thinking I'm trying to use Eazy to sell my record. I want to stand on my own two feet.
MTV is cool. Hell, yes, they helped us sell records!
My house is filled with boxes of books.
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.'
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.
There are too many fakes in the game, and I try to keep my family away from that.
I didn't even go to college. I wish I did.
I'm practically a historian.
I was rapping at school, at talent shows. I thought I was a little star.
Anybody can curse on a record.
That was my thing - the Raiders hats and all that.
I was listening to Chuck D, KRS, Rakim, Big Daddy Kane, all the greats, studying them.
I would listen to the other great MCs and work on my delivery all the time.
We was just talking truth. We wasn't trying to be political. We was just trying to be hip-hop artists.
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.
