I’m all about progression, man. I only deal with innovation and elegance and shit, like, I don’t give a fuck. I have three dicks.

-Action Bronson

I ain’t gonna lie: I love that cheese.

-Rick Ross

That’s fun stuff. Beats and making them. Girls especially like when you talk about snares. They really dig it when guys talk about quantizing loops. That’s how I get most of my pussy. Wait… are you recording? Are we live?

-Alchemist

It’s like riding an ill bike, fam. It’s like lacing up the right boot with the right lace and the bowtie’s tied laced up with the string attached, ya heard? Print all that shit right there, that’s gonna look ill when you print it. Trust me. Put that shit in italics right there. Put that shit in a different font. Yo, get my font right. That’s some shit [Raekwon] would say, ‘Get my font right in the interview man. I want my fonts correct in this interview fam.’

-Alchemist

When I played “Lean Back (Remix)” for the first time on the radio with Angie Martinez, the city stopped. The whole earth stopped. She was like, ‘I heard you got this remix, and I heard it’s crazy. But I don’t know who’s on it.’ And I was like, ‘Yo, I got the white boy.’ And the whole place got quiet.

-Fat Joe

[Hip-hop] is the greatest gay market in the world. The hip-hop community is most likely owned by gay, to be honest with you. I happen to think there’s a gay mafia in hip-hop. Not rappers. The editorial presidents of magazines, the PDs at radio stations, the people who give you award at award shows. This is a fucking gay mafia, my man. They are in power. So why wouldn’t a guy come out and say, ‘Yo, I’m gay,’ and get that type of love. I mean, Lady Gaga, I don’t know if she’s gay, but she running with that gay shit for real and she is winning.

-Fat Joe

It always felt to me like everybody was fronting and acting bigger than what they actually were. For me to be around them, it looked like I was doing the same thing. Let’s say you sitting in a room and you know you washed your ass today. Picture you sitting there and a bunch of funky niggas is in there with you. Now a chick walks in. When she walks in, all she see is a bunch of funky niggas.

-Method Man

I never seen [2Pac] eat a vegetable, not once in the five years I knew him. That’s how I knew he wasn’t planning on living too long.

-Shock G

The senator in Virginia for years was Chuck Robb. My wife and I supported him, and got invited to his Christmas party in the late ’90s, when [2Pac's] Greatest Hits came out. My wife decided we should listen to it on the drive. We get to Robb’s house, and there were a bunch of black parking attendants. We opened the car, and — I didn’t know this — but the next song to come on was ["Hit Em Up"]. The timing was hilarious. Right when the brothers were ready to take the keys the line “I fucked your bitch/ You fat motherfucker” came on. These guys fell out. They looked at me at first in horror, and then started laughing like crazy.

-Bruce Hornsby (“Changes” samples Hornsby’s “The Way It Is.”)

OK, this is [Young Jeezy's and my] daily routine: Smoke weed on the way to the city we’re driving to. Get to the city. Get chased by groupies tryin’ to flag us down and find the hotel. Do radio. Eat. Get a haircut. Smoke some more weed–well, we smoke weed while we’re doin’ all of this, anyway. Get dressed for the show. I do my show, he does his. Then we do the afterparty or go to a strip club. Then we pour champagne on bitches.

-Freddie Gibbs