Top 55 Tech N9ne Quotes

The reason why people still come to Tech N9ne shows is because they never know what to expect. They know it’s gonna be something wild. From generation to generation, I’ve seen it. The parents are bringing the kids, and then the kids start comin’ themselves. It’s crazy, man.

I feel like breaking barriers is necessary because man created barriers, which keep us separated as human beings.

I’m independent. I use my own money. For everything.

The master race, for real, is money. Money can buy you anything.

You have to distance yourself from hate, period.

I love Lil Wayne for even having people look my way.

Snow Tha Product was dope. She wanted me on a song, so I did it for her. I ain’t charge her nothing.

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’ve always been an elite artist.

I’m the Wi-Fi, so I get everybody connected. I’m trying to let the whole world know that I can keep it connected if you get with me, you know what I’m saying?

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.

We are blessed to not have violence at our shows. People come to our shows and act a clown. When you do music, you have no control who comes to your shows. I’m sure they have fights at Miley Cyrus shows.

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.

My favorite zany horror flick is ‘Evil Dead 2.’ Sam Raimi is awesome! I saw this back in the day when I was younger. ‘Evil Dead’ was actually scary, and ‘Evil Dead 2’ was zany as hell. I don’t really watch ‘Army of Darkness’ though.

I’m a builder. I build ideas and give them to the people, and they receive them in such a wonderful way.

People would be surprised to know that I watch ‘Sex and the City,’ ‘The L Word,’ and ‘Girls.’ I like women; why wouldn’t I like all those?

When it came to music growing up, it wasn’t just gospel and R&B. My uncle brought rock n’ roll to me when I was younger, and I loved it. I was open to all music.

If I didn’t have to do press, I would not.

I feel like I’m Dracula, dude, like, um… Nosferatu, you know.

Yes, I want to work with Rick Rubin. Yes, I want to work with Trent Reznor. Yes, I want to work with Madlib. Yes, I want to get with all these wonderful people. Collie Buddz, Marsha Ambrosius. I just want to go, man. I’m gonna keep on making music.

I’m looking for 100 percent proof that there’s a spiritual realm, and I ain’t seen nothing in my 43 years of living but humans. So until that day, I’ll be waiting.

I would love to have Mystikal on Strange Music when he gets outta jail.

I’m a different type of rapper. I work more than the average rapper.

When I first spit my first rhyme in public on my school bus, I had an audience.

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.’

With my face paint on, I don’t look like a regular black dude.

I write from my heart, so everything I say, I say with force.

Halloween is my favorite holiday. It’s like my Christmas.

I was always against starting the show with new material because the fans don’t know it. They just look at you, and it’s not explosive.

Everybody’s darkness is different. My darkness came from my mom having pancreatitis and almost dyin’. And what I noticed was that the darkness ain’t goin’ nowhere.

The one question I would have for Donald Trump is inspired by his ‘Make America Great Again’ cap. I would ask him, ‘When was America great? When did America not have an economic depression or a war?’

I always sacrifice myself for the love of all my people.

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.

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.

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.

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.

I don’t really put cars in my videos because I’m always flying or on a tour bus.

I know how to do music, no matter how weird I look on stage with the face paint, mask, and hospital scrubs.

We had a nine-piece choir on ‘Aw Yeah.’

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.

For many different reasons, my number one favorite horror movie is ‘Halloween II.’ I love the way it’s shot, and I love the way the synthesizer sounds on the score.

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 wanted to be Ice Cube when I was younger.

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 you’re in your own world, you don’t know what’s outside your world, so you can do whatever you want.

Music is music – it makes no difference what it is. I can like Slipknot and Public Enemy equally.

My biggest challenge in my career is not looking or sounding like anybody.

I write in a mathematical manner. For some of my songs, I rhyme every syllable. It’s a science.

I’ve always been strange; I’ve always been slightly to the left, like ‘weirdo‘ to other people, I guess.

People on YouTube say they don’t think people should mix genres. Those are the same people who don’t think they should mix races. It’s gonna always be that, but you can only pray that music can bring everybody together as one.

The beautiful thing about being independent and having my own label is I can say whatever the hell I want.

Whenever you can take something positive and make something good out of it, that’s what I’m all about.

OutKast. For them to come back together to rap with me and my brother Krizz Kaliko would be ginormous.

When you look at the teachings of the Bible, it’s pretty dark with Revelations, the Holy Ghost and everything, so hence the darkness upon me on my records.

All of the Doors’ albums are great. I could go on and on about everything that band did. ‘L.A. Woman‘ is phenomenal. But I have to say, ‘Strange Days‘ is it for me. That’s the one I always gotta listen to.