Words matter. These are the best Tech N9ne Quotes, and they’re great for sharing with your friends.
When you think you have something special, you can’t be the only one what thinks it; everybody else has to agree.
I’m inside out. I’m transparent. I’m open for the world to see.
I’ve been around so long that I’ve seen rappers make it and plummet.
Music is music – it makes no difference what it is. I can like Slipknot and Public Enemy equally.
I wanted to be Ice Cube when I was younger.
I don’t know what genre out there that I would be afraid to do. If I am afraid to do it, that’s not my cup of tea. It ain’t much that’s not my cup of tea.
My backpack is signed by three members of The Doors. I did a song with Robby Kreiger, John Desmore, and Ray Manzarek. I made my dream come true.
We have darkness as human beings.
Halloween is my favorite holiday. It’s like my Christmas.
I’ve always been strange; I’ve always been slightly to the left, like ‘weirdo’ to other people, I guess.
I did something that I told people around me never to do, which was, pay a psychiatrist. Why pay a psychiatrist when you can just come to me? I can help you with something going on in your life; even if I know nothing about you, I can possibly help you. That’s just me being cocky like I am.
We had a nine-piece choir on ‘Aw Yeah.’
What I found out is, I need complete autonomy. I can’t have nobody looking over my shoulder saying I can’t say this or that.
I’m a builder. I build ideas and give them to the people, and they receive them in such a wonderful way.
I have a certain comfort with the darkness now because it’s been so relevant in my life for so long, with my mom being sick and finally passing and the people changing as you get bigger and bigger. So ‘A Certain Comfort’ is about that. You can bring all the evil you want – I’ma make it disappear.
Every time I come out, there’s more and more people paying attention, so I gotta show out every time.
Some people like the dark music I do. The dark music is my life; it isn’t make believe.
It’s difficult to stay relevant for many years, but I’ve somehow managed to do so. I’m honest and provocative.
When MC Hammer came out, I was wearing parachute pants and patent leather shoes and a high top fade with a blonde streak in it like Kwame.
I’m only at home for, like, a month when I’m doing an album – at the most.
People’s outlook on Kansas City is always like, ‘They let you rap in K.C.?’ Or ‘How’s Dorothy and Toto?’ They put Kansas and Kansas City together, when it’s really separate.
I’ve been Tech N9ne since ’88.
I’m not a horrorcore rapper. I rap my life, but I love horror movies.
My love for music is infinite.
As long as my brain and heart are working, I’m good.
My mom and my aunties are really devout Christians. My mom married a Muslim when I was 12, so I got teachings from both sides and then other sides because I wanted to find out which way to go. So not only Christianity and Islam, but Confucianism, Shintoism, Taoism, Buddhism, and Judaism. I tried to read everything.
I love it when you hear a band, and you just go, ‘Yes! I never knew it, but that’s exactly what I want to hear.’
Guns are going to be here until the end of time; the underworld is going to be here until the end of time. It’s just a sad reality that dumb people use them.
Just because Lil Wayne made it cool don’t mean that I’m a start wearin’ the small pants or I’m gonna start doin’ the dance songs.
The master race, for real, is money. Money can buy you anything.
My quest has always been to get my story to the rest o’ the people.
I was not an athlete, but I was a break-dancer. I was a beatboxer, an entertainer.
I’ma work with Kanye. I’ma try my damndest.
I originally got my name after a gun because the way I rap; a gangster gave me the name in 1988.
When I was signed to Quincy Jones before I went independent, he told me to rap what you know, and people will forever feel you. And I stuck to that, no matter how many people called me a devil worshiper, no matter how many people call me a cult leader. I stuck with rapping about what I know.
A lot of people got a lot of money around Kansas City, Missouri. If we didn’t, KC Trends would be out of business.
When I have 7,000 people plus at Red Rock just for a show of mine, I think it’s wonderful to get that many people to come see you.
I will not change what I am for no amount of money or just kudos for my peers.
Since I can remember, being different was always hard around normal people. That’s just how it is, whether you have vitiligo, a deformity, or a different way of thinking or dressing. It’s going to always be weird for normal people.
I would love to have Mystikal on Strange Music when he gets outta jail.
You have to distance yourself from hate, period.
Busta Rhymes has been around for centuries. He’s one of the original vampires.
I don’t really put cars in my videos because I’m always flying or on a tour bus.
I wanted to be a psychiatrist.
I love Lil Wayne for even having people look my way.