Quotes About Artistry

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

I secretly want to be a rapper!

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

Many people say Nicki Minaj is a rapper, but she's also a singer.

I love rap, and I try to write a bit like a rapper, to have a flow.

I've never considered myself a rapper. I know how to do it. I know how to make my voice project, and I know how to stay on beat and what have you, but I've never considered myself a rapper.

I would love to collaborate with Chance the Rapper. I love his lyrics and his sound and everything.

If someone announces me as a 'Christian rapper,' there's still an 'Eh, no thanks.' But perceptions are starting to change.

I love Kanye for that. Being a producer, making beats, and being a rapper. He does it all.

When people ask me what I call myself, I am not going to say 'Christian rapper,' because what they think of when they hear Christian rap is something very different from what I do.

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.

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

I actually fell in love with hip-hop before I fell in love with Jesus. I'm a fan of hip-hop, I love hip-hop. I don't even necessarily want to call myself 'Christian rapper.' You know, I don't want to put myself in that little box.

I'm not a mumble rapper.

I don't want to be boxed in or looked at a certain way, as in, 'Yo, he's an Asian rapper.'

I don't think I'd call myself a rapper.

I never wanted to perform like a rapper.

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

One of my homeboys from my neighborhood had actually taught me how to rap. He was the rapper and we would all go over to his house. It would be like 10 or 12 of us in there and he'd write everybody's rap in the house and would give everybody four or eight bars.

I'm from Atlanta, but I don't really consider myself an 'Atlanta rapper.'

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

My name is actually Snoh, but there's a rapper with that name already out there, so I was asked to add something to it. I didn't really want to do it at first, but then I thought of Aalegra. It has a connection to music and means 'joy' in Italian.

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

I wouldn't consider myself a mumble rapper, because I don't know what that is. But when I talk, I mumble. So it's in my music because that's how I talk.