"I'm producing the Slaughterhouse album right now. And my thing with that album is that I didn't want it to be an album full of them trying to out-rap each other. I wanted them to actually be together during a majority of the process of the album as a group and just make things a little bit more rounded." (XXL Mag)
"Musicians are coming up every time. I sit down here...musicians are coming up everyday. You know what I mean. I hear their music and I'm like, whoa! I need to sit up. You know what I mean. Like...Like we do need to understand that the world is literally a global village. When we like to give excuses like language is a barrier; language is never a barrier. Awilo was the biggest artiste here some time in my life. You know what I mean. We were dancing to Gangnam style here. Tupac and Biggie are probably still the biggest...If you could bring them back to life, they would literally have the biggest shows in Nigeria, or in Africa today. And I'm saying, for me, it's about getting back to the real. You know...where it IS really- the hearts of the people."
“West Coast is—I’d say they’re on top right now. I would go out and say that,” Alchemist said. “On all aspects. Cause there’s so many layers in L.A. You got your TDE crew. You got your Odd Future crew. You got Problem. You got Kid Ink. You got Kendrick. You got Dilated. You have Planet Asia. There’s like so many levels. Blu. I mean, we can go on talking forever, but what my point is I think the West is crushing shit right now. And a person like Kendrick—the whole TDE thing is like it’s putting L.A. back in that place where when we were young growing up. It was like a whole melting pot of different talent on different levels.”
"One of the things that I'm really looking forward to is getting back
and working with my brother Fat Joe. I
just talked to him over the [winter] holiday and he's anxious and
excited to get back in and we're both in a good place now. I always have
good luck with Joe. Lightning has struck quite a few times in the same
place -- Joe's got a great ear [for music] too." ("Mikey T The Movie Star")
"I’ve gone seventy-nine hours without sleep,
creating. When that flow is going, it’s almost like a high.
You don’t want it to stop. You don’t want to go to sleep for fear of
missing something...I don’t even listen to the records after they
come out. It’s outlawed in my house. My wife and my kids
can’t play any of my music around me. Once it comes out, for me, it’s
just business. Numbers."
"I'm very aware of the things I’ve accomplished, and I’m very appreciative, but I'm so far away from where I want to be," Hit-Boy said in a recent interview with Life+Times. "I get to have dinners and kick it with people like Jay Z and stuff like that. I want to be on his level one day, and I feel like I for sure can. I’m very far away from that right now. I’ve just gotta keep working to get to that point. I see myself being at the caliber one day, so I’m not stopping until I get there."
"It was less than 200 years [ago] that we were slaves. I was really affected by that movie ['12 Years a Slave'] and you gotta understand, I started out as an intern, man. I started out getting coffee, cleaning bathrooms. I started out sneaking on the train from Howard University, and this is really a dream come true. It’s bigger than me. There’s a lot of people out there that want to be somebody, and it really shows that if you put that hard work into it, you can really get it. I got the same 24 hours as y’all do. We all got the same 24 hours. I just want this network to inspire people all over the world that it can be done."
"At the time, I didn't really have a name for production. I just had did 'Ebonics (Big L track).' We reached out to Nas' travel agent. Back then, you had to do whatever you had to do to give a beat CD to an artist. You ain't really see them... You ain't gonna see Nas on a random day walking around like you see artists now. So we gave it to a travel agent. He held the beat for a while, and then a couple months later told me to come to the studio and it was 'Ether.' I didn't know it was going to be a diss record until I got to the studio and he played it for me. A lot of people think it was premeditated. They act like I put the 'Fuck Jay-Z' at the beginning so they htought it was premeditated by me."