Pharoahe Monch
If you holding up the wall then you missing the pointCollection: Wall
There's a need for pop. There's a need for radio. There's also a need to understand the brilliance and the depth of jazz and soul - and what hip-hop can be at its most brilliant and what hip-hop can be at its most simplistic.Collection: Hip Hop
I'm doing what's in my heart at the time.Collection: Heart
Radio makes it appear like you can get some sounds in a laptop and be the next dude. Those careers don't really last.Collection: Careers
You have to understand the vehicle, the form that allows you to do what you do, and why that is.Collection: Form
There needs to be someone who can lead you in the right direction.Collection: Needs
Kids don't even realize what they're up against.Collection: Kids
You feel pressured to do what you think the public wants, when in actuality the sales aren't reflecting what the radio is doing. Not in the least bit!Collection: Thinking
It mattered what someone did to allow you to have the forum to do what you're doing.Collection: Forums
Having the savvy to know what you want to say, how you want to say it, and what music you want to say it over comes with time spent and wisdom gained in a music career.Collection: Careers
There are situations where I'm uncomfortable saying, "I'm a hip-hop artist." In some circles, the response is like, "Oh, OK, so... you have whores and your ties are shiny?"Collection: Artist
His momma said, Donovan why are you, on the corner of linden and guy R. Brewer?Collection: Rap
New York City gritty committee pity the fool that act shitty in the midst of the calm, the witty.Collection: Witty
Unless somebody who's already eleven thousand times platinum is like, "We're ushering this project in," it's not really gonna pop commercially.Collection: Projects
You've rarely got an artist that's not being chauffeured into the business by some huge-ass names.Collection: Artist
The stuff I'm working on is quite dense. I'm seeing every four bars as a scene in a film.Collection: Bars
The battle thing is very important in hip-hop, but at the same time, I want to sit down and have a beer and listen to Rakim.Collection: Beer
Man, I would demand that artist come to the table with better variety. I would demand that musicians know music history, not just Hip-Hop, so that we could understand. The better your 'listening ear' is, the better your music will be.Collection: Artist
I mostly write to music, even though I know I sound free-form a lot. Then there are times when I'll have a concept and hold on to it until I come across the right music that makes a marriage.Collection: Writing
When new artists come out and they're not being cosigned or some company doesn't have a stake in it, or someone's not getting paid under the table to produce the whole record or bring it to video, the artist really suffers.Collection: Artist