Quotes About Artistry

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 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.

All rappers are princesses like me.

Rhyme patterns are nothing without meanings to the words. A lot of rappers can do those flows, but the raps aren't really about anything - which is cool sometimes, but to have the flow and the message is one of my favorite things.

If women dabble in rap but they're not rappers, to get from dabbling to doing it is really difficult, confidence-wise.

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.

For me rappers and dancers are poets and artists and often times the most interesting performances are given by them.

The more I got into my artistry, I got a bigger responsibility: the kids in Chicago, they look up to the rappers. We influence them.

I just love working with Eminem. He's just one of my favorite rappers, and his lyrics - he's a true poet, and I enjoy that about him.

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

I think the best rappers practice concept albums in their work.

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

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.'

Rappers and MCs have always had an alias. Building your character, it helps you to get things out.

I used to think that there was a certain way I had to stick to when it came to R&B, but now I'm saying whatever, the same way these rappers do. I'm bringing that into R&B music.

One of my favorite rappers of all time, if not my favorite rapper of all time, is Nas.

I feel like when you listen to music, it's almost like the same thing over and over, but of course as time goes on, rappers evolve, lyrical play evolves.

A lot of people's favorite rappers will literally get in the booth and just make sounds.

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 am my own parent when it comes to rapping and do impromptu stuff. Being a rapper, you have to be good at improvising, like you give me a word and I have to rhyme it quickly and then make sense out of the rhyme.

There's been people who've rapped and produced - like Kanye - but I don't feel like on the rapping side there's ever been a producer who can rap as good as I think I can rap.

Before I was rapping, I was an interior designer and decorator.

I'm not ever going to stop rapping. I love rap.