Quotes About Rap

Nicki Minaj thanked me on the first mixtape that she put out. She shouted me out, said thank you for allowing her to borrow my English accent sometimes. And honestly, a lot of people have told me that I've influenced them.

My influences, going back through the history of rap, talk about Doug E. Fresh, Kool Moe D, Eric B. & Rakim, Public Enemy.

I would love to work with Megan Thee Stallion, City Girls, Cardi B, Nicki Minaj.

Nicki Minaj is my ultimate dream collaboration. That would be number one. I love Megan Thee Stallion. I would love to do a song with Megan, Cardi B.

I'm not saying my teachers should have rapped my lessons or anything, but I feel if I had made more of a connection to them I would have gotten more out of school.

One night in the House of Drinking and Smoking we were victims of what I would later call a home invasion. I didn't know the term then. I think I learned it later, from a rap song, or a movie based loosely on a newspaper columnist's fear of a rap song.

Gudda Gudda

In my mind, not in real life. My rap name will be Optimus Rhymes. Or the Notorious B.o.B.

In rap music, even though the element of poetry is very strong, so is the element of the drum, the implication of the dance. Without the beat, its commercial value would certainly be more tenuous.

Ol' Dirty used to come out to Queens and spend the night at my crib a whole lot.

It feels like one family - JAY-Z's one call away for any advice, any questions. He's a real big homie.

With Yo Gotti 'Rack It Up,' that was him hitting me like, bro, I'm about to put out a single next month, I want you to produce it.

'Solja Rag' was designed for Juvenile. It wasn't one of them beats where I was gonna chop it and see who I was going give it to: it was Juvenile all over it.

I was raised listening to, like, Jay and Big and Pac, Cassidy, Ludacris, even some of Drake's stuff.

I got into rap when I first heard Sugarhill Gang.

I don't call my music 'gangsta rap.' I call my music reality, something that really happened, something that has really happened, something that will really happen, something that could really happen. It ain't nothing that I'm making up; I think that's why people listen to it.

I didn't know at the time that the energy that I was giving off was like a battle Emcee.

I'm always giving life lessons in my music.

I'm glad I had kids young because we have a strong bond and listen to the same music.

If you just freestyle, everybody is gonna go, 'Freestyle.'

I was writing rap at 12 years old and began writing songs as a 20-year-old. I think I wrote my first song in the winter of 2008-2009, when I was in Buenos Aires. I was writing about growing up and my boys back home.

Earl Sweatshirt is very wise.

My main influence is Kool G Rap and Cam'ron, pretty much. If you were to mix those two people up, I wish that would be me... This is my voice. I sound like nobody; I sound like me.

Other female rappers are overly sexual, have no wit, and their lyrics are so generic. I want to change the game to make rap that shows I'm not a normal female rapper - it's not about how rich I am, how much sex I have, or how many boyfriends I have. That's just not me.