Not every entertainer's living lavish.
Redman
I love video games. Me and Meth are video game addicts.
I was always doing an independent kind of move while I was still with a label. They just stamped it.
I'm always ready to venture into new music.
I never looked out for MTV... I just looked for the approval of the streets... The streets will always let you know.
I like staying in the hood.
If major radio will have me, cool.
I don't want to help brand someone else and not have equity or ownership in that company.
The difference between Reggie Noble and Redman is that this 'Reggie Noble' album is more conceptual. It got concepts on it, it got auto-tune on it, it got a pop record on it. I had fun on it.
I'm my own label.
When I appeared in EPMD's 'Hardcore' song and video that was just crazy. Def Jam had these little virals back then on VHS tape. Q-Tip was another very important person to my career. He had me in A Tribe Called Quest's 'Scenario' video when I was first coming out.
I'm not really trying to get in the acting field that hard. I'm trying to really be behind the scenes and direct and produce.
Being from the same umbrella as Jay-Z, I'm not political, but I'm sure whatever he's going to do with the NFL, he's going to branch out and open more doors for other players and for us to get a better understanding of the NFL.
We know Uncle George directly, so he gives us music to sample, all we gotta do is tell him directly and we can use it.
You can't turn back the hands of technology.
We can't just depend on this rap game.
I love video editing.
I wouldn't know what to do with a big house.
I like Kendrick as an artist. He's witty and he's smart when he's spitting in his lyrics. And he's crafty.
Our career was based on energy and putting out a hot album.
I've always wanted to work with Jamiroquai.
Our career wasn't built on putting out hot singles.
I tried moving to the more white area, but I found that every night I was getting harassed by police.
Negativity lives in rap. That's what it's built on. That's where the money circulates and generates from - negativity.
My superheroes are Meth, Keith Murray, Busta Rhymes, ODB, Xzibit. The superheroes before us were EPMD, Slick Rick, Rakim.
I definitely want to help the youth, people who can't afford medicine.
I don't need a lot and I don't expect a lot.
There's no difference between rocking in front of a crowd or rocking in front of a camera.
I liked the 'Other Guys' movie.
I can promise my fans what you see from me is what you get! No additives, no preservatives.
Now when I first heard EPMD's first joint 'You Gots to Chill' and later 'So Whatcha Sayin'?' I said, 'I can do this!'
You know, if an actor or, say, a basketball player writes a rhyme, it doesn't mean he's a rapper. You got to put in time. I don't say I'm an actor.
The whole 'Muddy Waters' title is not about things look or how deep it can get or it can be. It's just the slouchiness of the album.
Those who preach in rap, don't make no money.
I'm just tryin' to do get-on-the-road music so I can go on tour.
We need to support the people who are making real hip-hop.
Maybe the level of people you attract is what you supposed to attract. Maybe the few people I attract are the ones who know what the real is... There's that connection. That's what I put into my music.
I'm going to stick to college radio, like I been started off, like I started off with in the day.
J. Cole is hot. He's different.
Music is the outlet to bigger and better business; that's what I'm excited about.
I swear, I have not played 'Dare Iz A Darkside' damn near since I did it. Seriously!
I am a Wu-Tang member and Method Man, he been a Def Squad member way before I was a Wu member. I was like a Wu member but I wasn't official.
I always try and think about what the 'hood would say when I do things.
Success happened real quick, so I was just all over the place and damn near lost my mind on the second album.
The rock-band crowd is so different from any other crowd. Because when they are there to see they band, they there to see they band.
I'm not trying to top the 'Muddy Waters' album. What I'm doing by naming it 'Muddy Waters 2' is to let you relive that '90s kind of sound and experience.
Every artist can actually say that, that the overseas community appreciates the culture of hip-hop more, really, rather than over here. So it's fun to perform there.
The first 'Blackout!' just started out with us doing the first song, 'How High' - I guess it was 'How High' - and then it just took off from there.
My whole thing is I want to be able to help people.
I was always self-sufficient even when I was with Def Jam.
