Quotes About Rap

Eminem is a master.

Me and Master P go way back.

Busta Rhymes is my brother from another mother.

I liked Big L's wordplay with the multi-syllable rhymes he hit so clean.

I like A$AP Rocky and his stuff - Kendrick too.

Rap is the pulsation given by some, usually an electronic rhythm section, without any tonality, and you have someone reading high-school poetry.

People told me that Miley's '23' wasn't hip-hop. Let me tell you, she went in and owned that track.

You've got Lil Uzi Vert - you do a song with him, you ain't doing nothing but gaining new fans. You gotta keep up with the time and the pace.

I'm a Brooklyn kid. So for me, rap and all the other forms of music that I participate in, we catch a win? It's a win for everybody.

Me and Drake, we just met each other in passing on the road. We kicked it a few times. We kept ending up in the same circles. Eventually we figured out we wanted to work.

It's bad poetry executed by people that can't sing. That's my definition of Rap.

I think the problem with people, as they start to mature, they say, 'Rap is a young man's game,' and they keep trying to make young songs. But you don't know the slang - it changes every day, and you're just visiting. So you're trying to be something you're not, and the audience doesn't buy into that.

Usually, I think of the song, and then the video plays out in my head as I'm writing the song. I started rapping to become a comedian, so I'm certainly thinking about the visual component of things beyond just the music most of the time.

A lot of rappers been putting out a lot of sub-par visuals. I feel like the visuals could be better.

I have such an eclectic taste in music. Come to a backyard BBQ at my house, and I will run the gamut from Skynyrd to Sinatra to '90s grunge, rap, R&B, and classic rock. I have issues. If I had to pick one, I love this country artist named Craig Morgan. His music and his songs are so relatable and tell such vivid stories.

I do rap and speak in Malayalam but only to save my life as my vocabulary in the language is not as good as it is in Hindi.

Everything is organic. I got the wordplay, I got the vocabulary to really, really rap.

Hip-hop I never really got really into mainly just because I'm not a big fan of rap. I do like R&B artists like Beyonce. I'm a big fan of her mainly because of her vocals. They're just so awesome. I love her and Christina Aguilera, and that whole urban kind of feel is really great, especially with my voice.

With Rage, we wrote riff rock and had rap vocals, so we didn't really concern ourselves with melody for the most part.

At the beginning, it was me, Run and D, but D's voice is messed up.

My voice is my own instrument that I use to rap.

I originally wanted to embrace the imagery and forthrightness of rap music. There are some interesting, dynamic voices in rap. But I find most of it irresponsible in its overt violence and commercialization of anger. As artists, we believe we can will action through language. If that's the case, we have to take responsibility for what we say.

Rap is hardcore street music but there are women out there who can hang with the best male rappers. What holds us back is that girls tend to rap in these high, squeaky voices. It's irritating. You've gotta rap from the diaphragm.

I don't need the big accolades when I die. Hit me with a couple good little ones: Kiss, one of the best voices in rap history.