Quotes About Authenticity

I'm obviously not a rapper, and I don't have any claims to be one, really.

Kendrick Lamar is 10-times the rapper I am, but I just feel I'm the best at getting my own point across.

A rapper is about being completely true to yourself. Being an actor is about changing who you are.

I don't even feel like a rapper.

I don't know how to be a rapper. I just know how to be me.

When I first started, I thought I was wack. Lyrically, I thought I was wack. The thing I had over everybody was that I was the realest rapper.

Chance The Rapper makes some of the greatest music out, and he build his brand up organically, and the fans have reacted to it.

No one said, 'This is the best female rapper.' It's more like, 'Lizzo can really rap.' I think its because I'm not that sexy girl. I'm that beast girl.

I don't consider myself a gangsta rapper. But I'm probably more qualified to be a gangsta rapper than people who call themselves that. I've been through that life.

I don't want to be a rapper that puts out, like, 600 songs a year.

I'm a human before I'm even a rapper.

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

You know, I wasn't a rapper, never wanted to be a rapper. That wasn't my style.

I'm on the front line and I am a rapper.

To me, rap music is bigger than who's the coolest rapper, the biggest rapper. It's everything about your personality.

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

I'm not really a rapper!

I'm not on a record like some rapper trying to boast about my clothes or where I'm from. I'm creating stories, experiences, the way places make me feel, the way a person makes me feel.

I think most people don't know that I really write everything myself. No help. There's nobody in the studio except for me and the engineer. A lot of people don't think I'm a singer. They think I'm a rapper.

I'm a relationship guy. I'm not about that 'rapper life.'

I'm not obsessed with the idea of doing what you're supposed to be doing when you're a rapper. Walking around with cash that you haven't even provisioned for tax. Spending all of your time in the designer store to create some weird impression. I'm not interested, bro. I just like making music, and that's it.

It's pretty hard as an Asian rapper to not be put in a box. I do my best to avoid that.

I'm not a mumble rapper.

I feel like when people are talking about how they make music or how they are the biggest rapper, I don't understand how that's relatable to people.