Quotes About Artistry

I really don't think I have a genre, honestly, 'cause I make such different music even though it is rap.

I don't really want to rap about money.

The way I rap isn't about me boasting. Rarely will I do that.

I listen to rap a lot. I love Nas, Damien Marley, and Lauryn Hill.

I'ma just rap and do me.

That's what I used to do; I would just go into the studio and just rap. But it's all about coming up with dope concepts and dope hooks.

Rap music started because they were bored of other music so they created something really new.

I don't know if I'll ever make rap music, but I just like people who are like, 'I am going to just find the medium that's best for this idea and master it and do that.'

I'll make a song with Rick Rubin, a song with Beyonce, a song with Lenny Kravitz. I just believe in making good music. I'm not trying to section myself off into just making hard-core rap music.

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.

Every person I meet is a rapper, DJ, or makes beats.

I don't even feel like a rapper.

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

I want to show the fans that I do have a voice, as well as I'm a great 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.

The point of '777' is for the world to hear adult Key. Your favorite new rapper's favorite rapper, grown up. My job was to lay any canvas he needed at any given moment.

When I was a kid, my favorite rapper was 50 Cent. He was definitely a big influence on why I wanted to do music.

My real, full name is Chelsea Chanel Dudley. In my opinion, Chelsea Dudley does not sound like a rapper. So I was like, 'You know what? Imma drop both of those names and just go by Chanel.'

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

My only scheme was to be a rapper.

I don't make Christian rap, but I am a Christian rapper.

I love Pink and Nelly Furtado - the honesty and truth in their lyrics. I also love Kendrick Lamar and Chance the Rapper.

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