Quotes About Originality

I'm not a rapper; I'm an artist. And I'm more than an artist. I'm a brand.

I'm the first rapper ever popping his collar.

I'm not the best rapper; I'm not trying to be the best rapper.

I was never just a 'fill in 16 bars on a beat' rapper. I was making real songs from the jump.

I don't like being categorized as a rapper. I make music; I don't just rap.

I'm an artist; I'm not a rapper.

People don't really compare me to anybody. They just say I'm a mumble rapper. I'm fine with that. I don't really care.

There are guys like Chance the Rapper; I'm a big fan of his.

I say if you don't write your lyrics, then you can't be the best rapper alive. Not at all. You can be one of the best artists, especially in rap, you gotta write everything yourself.

I'm an artist, not a rapper... so my musical genres and library is way beyond the normal rapper.

I want to do films and have my name mentioned next to Wes Anderson and Quentin Tarantino. I don't want my name mentioned next to other rappers at all.

You always hear rappers say they don't write, but they're not really talking about anything.

If you look at companies like Twitter, Google, all these companies started with ideas and then everybody used it. In my world, people don't think like that. Rappers chase the next check. They become a slave to labels and eventually that money starts shrinking.

None of my dudes I chill with are rappers. I don't put us as rappers. We're all artists.

If we're evaluating cool to the way other rappers appear to be cool, then I'm not cool at all.

Back in the day, rappers were 'bump bump bump ba bump ba bump.' They was rhyming like that, but I was like, 'bababa bump bump babum ba babump bababa bump.'

There's rappers out there that don't even know how to rhyme. They take someone else's words and go with it. To each his own.

I'm not, like, 'comedy rapping.'

Men of routine or men who can do what they are told are not hard to find; but men who can think and plan and tell the routine men what to do are very rare.

I've done lots of stuff, but it's rare for people to come up to you and be happy about the fact that it's been put out there, that it's something a bit different, something creative.

It is rare that even a jazz musician finds an individual voice.

With rare exceptions, I respond most to painting that cuts across grain rather than following it. I think the artist here can get in touch with that grain rather than simply feel its flow. And he really can't cut right across it anyway.

'Human Giant' was a kind of lightning in a bottle. A rare opportunity for us to write and create our own sort of thing, with very few restrictions.

When I take from my influences, it's rare that I do it literally.