"Mase [is] hands down the best rapper of all time. He knew how to get his point across in the fewest lines. Most of his raps, people could just connect with and understand and feel what he was sayin with one listen."- Kanye West, Rolling Stone, 4/29/04
"Can you believe there is no Rage Against the Machine? There is no Public Enemy? There is no Arrested Development? No one is talking about anything. Nobody young gives a fuck. the only people that even mention that there is a fucking war are, like, me and Al Franken? It's a sad fucking time for art. Art is dead man.. Everybody's like, 'Fuck you, you're doing good' - like I shouldn't care about my people because I can buy ten pairs of sneakers."- Chris Rock, Rolling Stone, 4/29/04"
"With urban films, I have a lot of juice. Pardon my language, but n*ggas now I'm real. N*ggas can watch Baby Boy and they know it ain't no bullshit. Real recognizes real."- Ving Rhames, Rolling Out, 3/25/04
"I never really thought past tomorrow. I remember the question always used to come up: What you wanna be when you grow up? My answer was always: Rich. Period. I still don't [feel rich]. I don't live a rich man's life; I live a wealthy man's life. A wealthy man will fly himself first class; he'll get himself a suite. A rich man will take a private jet. He has to have a penthouse suite. A rich man doesn't have to go to the DMV. But a wealthy man does. I'm a common dude. That's why when people see me out in the world, they're like, 'Where your bodyguards at?' that's how I roll. Plus, I don't fuck with anybody, period.. Anything that comes inside my little area has to be about positivity and peace."- Method Man, XXL, May 2004
"The rap game's flushing out the bullshitters and all the unnecessary muthafuckas that have been in it for a while. Like just the way that the whole industry is changing, with the firing of bosses and executives, the letting go of artists and labels, cause they're not serving a purpose, they ain't really making the money, they're not selling the records. This flushing has been a long time coming."- Busta Rhymes, XXL, May 2004
"When Rakim said, 'It ain't where you from it's you at,' anybody should have took that right there and ran with it. That's like motivation, emotional support. That was a strong line right there."- MJG, XXL, May 2004
"I used to be indecisive, but now I'm not so sure."- unknown (shaken in by The Awesome Stoner)
"I keeps it on all the time u might as well call me broadband... - unknown dude from UK (Shaken in by ????)
"Chingy is tha hottest guy ever to rap since Tupac!!!" - (shaken in by Suga Suga)
"I ain`t dissing 50 Cent, but ni99as know he can't rap better than the average rapper in the South, period. He raps like he's a Southern rapper and he sounds like he's from LA. Dude don't say nothing fly. He's not a lyricist like Jay-Z. He's very, very southern with his rap. His sh!t is 1, 2, 3, 1, 2, 3...just like Buck, 1, 2, 3. Ain't nothing flashy about, 'I'll buss your motherf#@$in head.'" - Big Gipp of Goodie Mob, sohh.com interview/article, April 8, 2004 (shaken in by teezebaby)
"Real maturity begins when you finally realize that no one is coming to the rescue. - Brian Tracy
"You aint no doctor, what can you do?"- Babs when she hears of Sara's mom being sick (shaken in by j-bowman)
"These kids gotta ask, 'What is rap? And why am I rapping?'.. Cause I knew, at 15, I was gonna change the game. And honestly I still haven't seen anybody do that yet. There's no one here to reshape it with honesty, lyricism, and music being one together movement making total sense. I don't want to did nobody, but there is no one who has raised the bar since Illmatic. - Nas, Vibe, April 2004
"Other than Master P and Lil Romeo, does anyone wear P. Miller gear?" - 20 Questions, Vibe, April 2004
"I’m also a firm believer that it’s time that we, as a nation, reduced McDonald’s to one of those run-down scary-looking franchises in a bad neighborhood that you would never even think of going into. Like Popeye’s Chicken."- Bill Maher's Blog, 3/11/04
"I don't want anyone to say, 'Pimpin' Ken's a pimp.' Who wants to be known as a pimp? Yes, I am street oriented and have a lot of game, but I can take that same street game and turn it into something positive.. I have a disagreement with brothers having power and not using it to elevate their community. It's okay to be on television, but if it's not having an impact, why the hell are you on TV? I would like to take this opportunity to tell my good friend the Bishop [Don "Magic" Juan], 'Quit using the word "church," quit using God's name in vain. You cannot lead a whole generation of people astray."- Ken "Pimpin Ken" Ivy, The Source, April 2004
"All my songs are about something that was negative and how God can help you through it. Like how a minister will bring up problems in service; I try to do that lyrically. I have a responsibility to other black men around me to help us make sane decisions and use our heads instead of always trying to look cool."
- Kanye West, The Source, April 2004
"The creed that my crew lives by we call The Circle of Success. That means we're here to make each other rich. So we make sure we're all looked after, that way the crew can never go down. If you've got 10 people and they all have money you take a little bit from each person in you're crew and you're back good. It's not that much to ask.. And I would never sell anything to the consumer that I wouldn't buy myself. I would never do that." - Dame Dash, Q, May 2004
Kelly's ghetto as hell, but Beyonce and her man can't bowl for damn. They're like they're too good to get down. Stop trying to be cool and throw that shit. Stick to the microphone bitch! - Big Boi from Outkast, Q, May 2004
"I wouldn't call myself a villian. I'm more of a diva." - Omarosa, Entertainment Weekly, 4/30/2004
"Puff introduced me to a totally different set of shit. Sex specifically. Sex is so hot in the industry, man. [While he was in New York, he lived in Puffy's house in Scarsdale.] There was always girls around. You'd open a door and see somebody doing it, or several people in a room having an orgy. You never knew what was going to happen." - Usher, Rolling Stone, 5/13/2004
"I'm not under the alcafluence of incahol, but sum thinkle peep I are." - (shaken in by DA)
"I like Lil Jon & The East Side Boyz. I saw them on some award show and it was so radical and so non-musical and assaultive. Who I also really loved was Trick Daddy. When I was in the studio with Rage against The Machine, we would listen to Trick Daddy to get us to the right space. I played Lil Jon for Slipknot and they were kinda impressed. We were listening to the aggressiveness of it and wondering, How does this apply in our world." – Rick Rubin, Co-Founder of Def Jam Records, XXL, April 2004 (shaken in by ?)
"A women will seek you out and feed off the fact that you're nice. She'll abuse your niceness and turn you into a bitter shell of the man you used to be. It's only a matter of time.- ünknown (shaken in by bashful905)
"Money never starts an idea: it is the idea that starts the money." - W.J. Cameron
"Opportunity is missed by most people because it is dressed in overalls and looks like work."
- Thomas Edison
