Action Bronson
You have to take control of your own life, your own destiny, and your own careers. You can't leave everything up to someone else, 'cause then you can look at them and blame them.
I don't wanna be preached to. Unless it's in a beautiful voice, I don't want that.
Everything is creative. It's all relative to me. No matter what, you've gotta use your imagination, use your senses.
I got a lot of influence from my father, honestly. He'd take me in his car. I'd hear Carlos Santana. I'd hear Queen. I'd hear all these Turkish people, like, bands that he grew up listening to. He was in a band as well.
I come from a musical family as well as a culinary family.
You don't judge a book by a cover. I'm not your typical rap look.
I still wake up every day and take my kids to school. It's supposed to be this way.
When you start putting too much thought into it, the music starts getting too revealing. You don't need to know all my inner thoughts.
I grew up in the '90s. My goal isn't to be a '90s rapper, but I have little hints of '90s influence in my music. It's a modern approach to classic rap.
I'm a man of different types of flavors and tastes. I like listening to things that inspire me. Older music, when instruments were being played, not just people hitting buttons. It's manlier. You're touching things to make sounds appear.
My main influence is Kool G Rap and Cam'ron, pretty much. If you were to mix those two people up, I wish that would be me... This is my voice. I sound like nobody; I sound like me.
I get angry real quick, but I also cool down just as fast. Albanians don't want to deal with anything in the moment.
As far as rap, I was more of a Mobb Deep guy rather than a Tribe guy.
You have to be talented. You have to work hard; you have to get the right pieces flowin' for you at the right time. And that's just what happened to me. I can't explain what happened.
'Molto Mario' was the show that sparked my entire interest in cooking.
No one raps about food like I do. I rap about fine dishes - like, all kinds of things that only real chefs and real foodies are going to know about.
Shoot eagles on the Jack Nicklaus course, Porsche with the triple exhaust, Seats soft like a midget's cough.Collection: Rap
All I believe in is food and myself.Collection: Believe
I just do whatever I do, and put it out there without tryin to cater to anybody. If you like it, you like it.Collection: You Like It
Lamb is such a beautiful thing.Collection: Beautiful
Working in kitchens with Mexicans you always listen to the Spanish channel and that's what I use. Whenever I cook I think of Spanish music, so I always have to listen to some sort of salsa. It gets your body going.Collection: Thinking
My TV stays on ESPN all day long, I'm one of those. I don't even listen to music in the car, all I listen to is sports talk.Collection: Sports
I take pride in my sports knowledge. I take pride in everything I do. It's part of me.Collection: Sports
I would say I started rapping because my friends were doin it.Collection: Rap
It's an accompaniment to life. It's not something that I do to rap; I smoke when I open my eyes...I don't know any other feeling.Collection: Weed
I'll always be into sports. Sports is part of my life forever.Collection: Sports