Words matter. These are the best Sir Mix-a-Lot Quotes, and they’re great for sharing with your friends.
When I did ‘Baby Got Back,’ I did it to be unpopular.
I tell people all the time, I’m Mix-A-Lot. I’m not a rocket scientist.
A lot of people have said ‘people should see you work in the studio,’ because a lot of people don’t realize I’m an actual engineer. I don’t walk in and have some guy grab the board. I have my own studio and soldered every wire in the studio.
Bottom line: Black men like curves. When they’re crooning to women about how beautiful they are in an R&B song, the ladies you see in the video don’t reflect what those guys like.
I thought the grunge scene was cool. This is going to sound weird, but I remember doing a concert at a tavern in the mid-’80s with Nirvana.
I build a lot of stuff, but I’m not a ‘construction guy.’ But I’m one of these guys that sits with his hands on his hips and tells you I’m gonna fix everything.
I love Stuart Scott. There are a lot of people that tore down barriers that we don’t really acknowledge sometimes. He was one. I think James Brown was too. That cat was a soul brother when it wasn’t very popular to be one.
I’ll tell you who doesn’t get enough credit, Soulja Boy. He was the first one to do something, post it, yank it down, and sell more records because of it.
After ‘Return Of The Bumpasaurus’ in ’96, I just got away from music for, like, a year. Literally, I think I produced two songs in a year. I was totally kicking it, running around.
Pop concerts create an audience for Pops concerts, not an audience for classical symphonic concerts.
I’m not really a Democrat or a Republican, but I don’t like rhetoric.
I tried gimmicky stuff ’cause I wanted to get some attention, and remember, you know, in the rap world Seattle was a cave. There was no light.
Yeah, I put out some goofy stuff. I had no idea who I was as an artist at all before ‘Posse on Broadway.’
When you get haters you actually feel like you’re a success.
I like kitchens. I’m a kitchen and bathroom freak.
I follow politics in a big way, and always have since I was a kid. I’ve got opinions, but they’re opinions on both sides – not just anti-Republican, which is a real popular thing for a rap artist to do. If you dis Republicans, nobody will get mad. I think the two-party system sucks. It’s absolutely ignorant.
I have never met a successful person who talked about failing. The glass is always half full. I don’t even like being around negative talkers.
In hip-hop, what you have is you have a lot of formulaic-type bands or rappers that come up. They saw something on the radio, and they want to mimic that formula. And that’s just boring. I don’t wanna record something just to make money; I want to record something to enjoy it and have fun because I’m a music lover.
I never envisioned being number one for five weeks, knocking Mariah Carey and Boyz II Men off the charts. That’s the scariest thing and the greatest thing that ever happened to me.
Pop culture says that if a black girl is to be taken seriously, she has to assimilate and be as white as possible, to the point of bleaching her hair blonde.
I grew up listening to a lot of Kraftwerk, Gary Numan, Devo, all that stuff.
Inventors often don’t know how to pitch their ideas. So many people in Silicon Valley want to hear you say ‘disruptive,’ and tote a ‘platform.’ They repeat buzzwords over and over, and I think it intimidates a real inventor.
Most of my money is more brand association deals. I own my publishing so that’s allowed me to leverage my brand in ways that most people cannot or will not because they won’t make any money doing it.
I love listening to old school stuff. I listen to some new cats out here, but I’m really into, like, Tech N9ne and his clique; I really like Eminem and those guys – cats that got real flow: I really connect with that. But I do love rock. I love a lot of electronica because I love programming synthesizers.
The only thing that doesn’t drop in a down market is entertainment money.
What I liked about grunge was the realness. It wasn’t pretty, it wasn’t glamorous.
I think what’s beautiful when you’re looking at artists like Macklemore and you’re looking at artists like Ayron Jones, they’re proud of Seattle and they’re bringing it back. Seattle’s a real music town. When you act ashamed of that, you should be pushed outta the game as far as I’m concerned.
Successful people jump at opportunity and take advantage of it.
That was the coolest thing about ‘Baby Got Back.’ The establishment didn’t embrace the song, which is what kept me from being the next pop guy to fizzle out and get laughed at, get dissed on TV. That helped save me. The fact that MTV banned the record made the record, in a weird way.
Do I do bar mitzvahs? No. You know, you’ve gotta draw a line somewhere.
