Quotes About Dedication

Where I go, rap goes. Rap is like my dog; it's like my little pet. And where I go, I lead my little pet with me.

Once I get into the locker room, I turn on stuff to get me hyped up. Mainly, it's a lot of rap music.

My girlfriend is rap. Music and albums and records and my kids.

The moon landing was such a magnificent accomplishment in U.S. space history. I think that boots on the moon was just one indicator of the rapid technology advancement and really just showed what we can do when all of us are dedicated to a single goal over a long period of time.

My only scheme was to be a rapper.

Not everybody is a great rapper; not everybody lives for the art of lyricism.

I didn't want to be a rapper full time. You know, Big L kinda - God bless the dead - influenced me to do that.

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

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 thought I was going to be a rapper as a kid and used to hop the train down to Jazzy Jeff's studio for, like, six months straight waiting outside of the studio for the big break, and one day we got in the studio and played our demo for Will and Jeff and quickly learned that we weren't that good.

Deep down, I want to be a big rapper. I want people to love what I'm doing.

If I apply myself to rap, I'm gonna be the best rapper alive. If I apply myself to comedy, I'm going to be the funniest guy alive.

I approached my career like a rapper. I would go to every open mic, every studio session, bringing my beats. I would almost do exactly what a rapper would do to get on.

I'm a different type of rapper. I work more than the average rapper.

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

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

I've worked with incredible producers in the past, but when me and El-P got in a room, there was no way I was going to let off his head because not only was he one of the greatest producers I heard, he was one of the illest rappers I had ever heard.

I'm not just rapping because I like it anymore - this is like almost my career now, you know? Not almost, it is! This is what I feed myself and my family with, so I attack it that way.

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

I'm living proof that there's no age limit to rapping.

If you're really a rapper, you can't stop rapping.

I don't have to work on it. I'm naturally a writer. The rapping and writing, they can go hand-in-hand - but rapping is an art that you have to practice and master, so I worked at it for a long time.

I started rapping since, like, 14. But I've been obsessed with rap from when I was 11. I heard 'Baby Don't Cry,' I'll never forget.

I've been rapping since I was 13.