Quotes About Rap

I don't like Drake as a person. He's just fake to me.

In the past it seemed like I was making fun of rap a little bit. But it was more me making fun of myself, since I'm not technically a rapper, whatever that means.

The first day I met Peep we made a song without question. Never in my life have I connected with someone like that. Literally the first day we met we recorded 'White Tee' and shot the video.

I did rap when I was a teenager - started rapping when I was nine, and started singing when I was 20. I kinda sing like a rapper would sing.

Rap for me is like making movies, telling stories, and getting the emotions of the songs through in just as deep a way.

Why do you think the fans like us - why they prefer our street raps over all that phony stuff out there? Because we're telling the real story of what it's like living in places like Compton. We're giving them reality. We're like reporters. We give them the truth.

Slick Rick has always been one of those guys real good at telling stories.

As far as rapping goes, as long as you are telling the truth and you have a good flow, then you win.

I feel like rap fit me better. I could hoop. I could have went and did that, but this is my lifestyle, my temperament, my mentality.

Rap, for me, I go at any tempo and any sound of beat and incorporate melody as well.

I think music talks to you on an emotional level, regardless of where you're from. I guess I related to the tempo of rap, the aggressiveness.

I've known a lot of cops like him over the years. Veterans, usually. Older. They have experience, but they lack the humanity that would otherwise define them as good cops. The more they see, the less they feel. The less they care. They become cynical and bitter and apathetic. They give all cops a bad rap.

I like to get in my own world. When I'm getting ready for a meet, I always have headphones on, listening to rap music to get myself fired up

Or would Hell be an endless loop of boy bands or rap? Either would be torture.

People can look to me as a teacher, but I consider myself a student of hip-hop.

Rap is stress, but it pays great.

These other rappers getting bodied and carried away.

When I leave I always come right back here. The young spitter that everybody in rap fear.

Still spittin that shit that they shot Pac over, the shit my mother look shocked over.

The only good thing about the 1980s was that they invented rap, but rap didn't get good until 1992, so what does that say about the 1980s.

The average rap life is two or three albums. You're lucky to get to your second album in rap!

I challenge you to a rap battle, Kanye West. I play the clarinet.

A lot of people really didn't expect for me to have a record with Kendrick, but I proved them wrong. It's not easy to get Kendrick on a record, so it was a huge deal for me to have him featured on the song.

When I came up with KRS-One and Rakim, everybody had to step their lyrical game up to build a fan base.