“People can look to me as a teacher, but I consider myself a student of...” — Doug E. Fresh Quote

“People can look to me as a teacher, but I consider myself a student of hip-hop.”

“Everybody's doing it. When I'm performing and I do the Dougie, the fans lose their minds.”

“I always say, 'Man, the Creator is preparing me for something. He's keeping the sun on me for some reason. He's keeping me aligned with that generation.' Because I genuinely love people, I love hip-hop, and I love using it as a tool to communicate and to create a better vibration. Life is short. I guess I'm lined up for a reason.”

“I see myself as a hip-hop artist, but I never wanted to make music for a specifically white audience. That's not what I grew up around.”

“I'm definitely inspired by old hip-hop.”

“But I've been freestyling and messing around with rhyming since I was 13. That's when I really started listening to hip-hop music.”