Redman
I just use every experience I go through as a learning experience so I can better myself and get in position on what I want to do.Collection: Learning
I'm a simple man with very simple tastes and low standards.
I don't want to help brand someone else and not have equity or ownership in that company.
I love video games. Me and Meth are video game addicts.
Don't be somebody you're not; don't do things that's not you.
I definitely want to help the youth, people who can't afford medicine.
My whole thing is I want to be able to help people.
I want to help AIDS patients.
I want to help people with pain and stomach disorders.
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.
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.
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.
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.
When you work for a company you always, well I know, I try to give advice to young kids and other peers that when you work for a company you just don't want to be an employee, you want to be an asset.
I was always self-sufficient even when I was with Def Jam.
I was always creative with the artwork. Always creative with the visuals. That's what made me standout.
I was always doing an independent kind of move while I was still with a label. They just stamped it.
The 'Red and Meth' show was good, but it wasn't good to me. I just looked at it as an experience and a check.
I will not be doing any more sitcoms, unless it's my own or a movie or I'm directing.
My superheroes are Meth, Keith Murray, Busta Rhymes, ODB, Xzibit. The superheroes before us were EPMD, Slick Rick, Rakim.
I've always wanted to work with Jamiroquai.
You can't turn back the hands of technology.
I love video editing.
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.
I'm my own label.
I like Kendrick as an artist. He's witty and he's smart when he's spitting in his lyrics. And he's crafty.
I swear, I have not played 'Dare Iz A Darkside' damn near since I did it. Seriously!
Well if you from New Jersey, you always knew that going to Jersey Shore was way different from where you lived at. I live in Newark, and that is 150 percent opposite of Jersey Shore.
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.
I liked the 'Other Guys' movie.
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.
Our career was based on energy and putting out a hot album.
Our career wasn't built on putting out hot singles.
I'm going to stick to college radio, like I been started off, like I started off with in the day.
If major radio will have me, cool.
We can't just depend on this rap game.
We need to support the people who are making real hip-hop.
Negativity lives in rap. That's what it's built on. That's where the money circulates and generates from - negativity.
Those who preach in rap, don't make no money.
My father took me to buy fireworks, and now I'm doing it for my kids.
I tried moving to the more white area, but I found that every night I was getting harassed by police.
I like staying in the hood.
I wouldn't know what to do with a big house.
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.
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.
Now when I first heard EPMD's first joint 'You Gots to Chill' and later 'So Whatcha Sayin'?' I said, 'I can do this!'
I don't need a lot and I don't expect a lot.
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 never looked out for MTV... I just looked for the approval of the streets... The streets will always let you know.
Not every entertainer's living lavish.