Metal Lungies

[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

It was my birthday, I was in Hawaii so I didn’t give a fuck. I was drinking Mai Tais and snorkeling, nigga. I put on that snorkeling gear and I instantly could swim. I was like, “What the fuck? I can breath underwater? Let’s go!” I was swimming with turtles, big ass eels, and stingrays and shit. Nigga, I was the black Jacques Cousteau that day, that’s for sure.

–Freddie Gibbs

I love beats. Beats is like women to me. You get a nice beat, you just gotta fuck it right. And do it right. Just do it right. Everybody love that shit. I love pretty beats. Fat beats. Nice juicy ones. Like girls. Girls. They like they same shit. All you gotta do is just do what you do to ’em. That’s how I look at music and shit. I love this shit, man.

–Ghostface Killah

During a lot of Terror Squad sessions, having an entourage led to a whole other pile of things. I remember one of the dudes in Joe’s crew called one girl, and she had to suck off like 20 to 25 people. [Laughs.] We’re in Sony [Studios], and you see a line of dudes going into the bathroom getting sucked off, while Beyoncé and Lenny S walk by not knowing what’s going on.

–Buckwild

If you are serious about the meeting, I want Randy’s Donuts, swivel chairs and a megaphone.

–Tyler, the Creator

They also strong-armed Puff into setting up the Bieber meeting.

That was a Kayne and Justin Bieber conversation on the net – the two of them … I think a lesbian artist that been in the game for a minute, we need to embrace the younger generation and give them an opportunity to stand next to us and do great, great music.

–Raekwon

He might actually be referring to Kanye.