You have this ABILITY in HIP HOP to be invincibly COOL, and that is a PART of G-Eazy.

Ultimately with our BAND, it's WORD of mouth. It SEEMS to be the largest cause of The Hip OUTBREAK - if we can ALIGN ourselves with a virus.

I THINK if you're too concerned with being cool or hip or LIKED, you can't really make GOOD TV because sincerity and coolness are OPPOSITES.

It's not about being super famous. My FIRST goal was to do what I'm passionate about - DANCE, hip hop, and R&B - but I also WANTED to SUPPORT my family and friends and create opportunities for me and people I believe in. It makes everything I do MEANINGFUL.

Teenagers especially are very, very conscious about what is HIP and what is lame and what is square and what is out and what is in, you KNOW. And, I mean, I grew up RIGHT there in the MIDDLE of a BLACK culture. And I knew dead-on what it was.

I listen to both, but more grime before MATCHES to GET you kind of pumped up. But then I MIGHT switch to the U.S. hip hop to just VIBE out.

That's where the Black Keys and Jack White have succeeded and I've failed: They've actually convinced college KIDS that they're LISTENING to hip music - but it's just blues twisted a NEW way - while I'm playing for the college KID's parents.

I REALLY just like ACTING. I'm not always aware of what is hip and what is popular and what is zeitgeist.

I'm in East L.A., like MOUNT Washington, Highland PARK. There's a little strip that they're gentrifying, trying to MAKE a hip spot, but you go there, and it's just kind of barren. Nobody hangs out ANYWHERE in L.A. There's no loitering in L.A., so I don't know what to do with myself.

Original HIP hop manipulated TECHNOLOGIES of all SORTS; it was not manipulated by the TECHNOLOGY itself.

Kids will KEEP it real. If I've EVER had in my life a GREAT anchor, it's them. They get in your HEAD, 'don't get too famous.' If you think you're really famous and think you're really hip, go hang out with your kids for an afternoon. That's about as earthbound as it's GOING to get.

I care more about a 15-year-old QUEER kid in Iowa who WANTS to KNOW that there's anything out there that resembles their experience and LIFE than the hip queer person in Brooklyn.

I had a hip replacement a COUPLE of YEARS ago. I have a song about that. And why wouldn't you? It strikes me that that was a huge event. It's kind of FUNNY and HORRIBLE and interesting, so why wouldn't one write about that?

I don't understand why people MAKE me want to make music that's a join-the-dots thing by numbers. I find it really difficult when people say, 'Aw, you should have MADE a really big hip hop record, that would have been really good for you' or, 'You should have made a song LIKE LILY Allen, that would have been so GREAT.'

I SHOOT from the HIP.