A biography for MC Renhasn’t been written yet.
“I never messed around with gangs.”
“MTV is cool. Hell, yes, they helped us sell records!”
“My house is filled with boxes of books.”
“Don't take everything so seriously.”
“What Jazzy Jeff and rappers like him talk about is phony stuff. They're not into street raps, into telling what's really happening out there. They're talking about what the white world and the white kids can identity with.”
“Anybody can curse on a record.”
“I would listen to the other great MCs and work on my delivery all the time.”
“I don't think I'll be playing the Mirage or the Tropicana when I'm 40.”
“Little kid see a cartoon character with a gun, he going to want to carry a gun, right?”
“America was built on segregation. It's gonna stay segregated until everyone's equal, and that ain't gonna happen when it's a capitalistic society.”
“When you're riding around with the fellas, you want to listen to something real masculine, like 'Boyz-in-the-Hood.' How would it look riding around and listening to something wimpy like 'I Need Love' or that phony stuff Jazzy Jeff does?”
“I was listening to Chuck D, KRS, Rakim, Big Daddy Kane, all the greats, studying them.”
“I don't want people thinking I'm trying to use Eazy to sell my record. I want to stand on my own two feet.”
“I want to say, to Mr. Gene Simmons, hip-hop is here forever. Get used to it.”
“I got into rap when I first heard Sugarhill Gang.”
“There are too many fakes in the game, and I try to keep my family away from that.”
“I was rapping at school, at talent shows. I thought I was a little star.”
“Let everything fall wherever it's going to fall.”
“We was just talking truth. We wasn't trying to be political. We was just trying to be hip-hop artists.”
“Street raps have to be masculine.”