You could name practically any problem in the hood and there’d be a rap song for you.

This is hip-hop. If you’ve got something you want to rap about, just rap about it, man.

We come from the days when rap used to agitate the mainstream. Now it’s more buddy-buddy. That doesn’t sit well with me. So what we need is [a bit more] street politics, bringing up issues,...

He was a rap producer, and then he was producing rock with some alternative bands. I just didn’t understand how I fit into that thing. But Bob Dylan’s manager, who I know, called me and...

I wanted to be sure that my donation did two things: went directly into the hands of hurricane victims and that it was an amount that could really impact their lives and make a difference,

The rap on him coming out, talking with some of the other tight end coaches in the league, they questioned his hands and I was glad they did. I had my eyes on him from...

Rap has been a path between cultures in the best tradition of popular music.

I don’t like rap that you can’t understand. The youth is so quick and alert.

I don’t have to put out another rap record. I can do it at my casual pace.

I go to a lot of stand-up comedy. I find more inspiration from observational stuff than from rap.

I wanted to be sure that my donation went directly into the hands of hurricane victims,

What I’m trying to do is break the genre from what is rap and what is music.

I’m not a businessman, I’m a business, man!

With rap, it’s a funny thing. You can say things, and people can take ’em the way they wanna take ’em.