Quotes About Authenticity

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 don't feel like I should just be a rapper. That's boring to me.

Although I had the label of being the 'pretty girl rapper with a lot of followers,' I just broke the rules.

Everyone wants to label me, but I don't want to be labeled as a rapper or a movie actor.

I'm not a rapper. I stay in my lane.

I'm a real rapper.

I never really was like, 'Let's me and this rapper link so the song can go crazy and everybody can listen to it.' I never made music for that purpose.

I'm a rapper and an artist, but I'm a human. That's what people forget. That's why I try to make them remember.

All rappers are princesses like me.

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

I don't want to do one of those records where it's like a compilation of a bunch of all sorts of rappers on my beats. I don't find those to be focused albums.

I think what sets a New York rapper apart from other rappers from other places is just being from New York.

I didn't want to be one of these rappers that holds his chain up just faking like he has money. I wanted more.

The artists with lyrical content and who say something seem to outlast the fad rappers - I always noticed that.

So I think hip-hop is moving and is going to continue to move in the direction of rappers just being honest with themselves, whether you're talking about Common and Mos Def or Nas and 50 cent.

I like smart rappers who aren't necessarily trying to be deeper than you, like Danny Brown.

When you have legends who want to do music with you, and you befriend the Kendrick Lamars and the Chance the Rappers, that's due to you really being authentically hip-hop and not being contemporary Christian.

I care most about what rappers think about me as a rapper, and I've gotten a lot of praise. I think rappers understand I'm a really good rapper, and that means more to me than a random person, you know, 'cause they know what goes into making rap music.

There's a lot of other rappers that aren't what they claim to be, and they get a pass because they're black.

A lot of rappers lie about who and what they are.

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

Ninety percent of the general public aren't gangstas, so all of the rappers aren't going to be gangstas.

I think, a lot of times, the mistake in music - even rappers that are trying to be big time - if you're broke, rap about being broke. If you're sensitive, rap about being sensitive, 'cause there are other sensitive people. If you're sensitive, but you talk about being a tough person that doesn't care about anything, people will call your bluff.

Why still be pretty and all that when there's so many girly female rappers already? You can be a rock star instead.