Quotes About Rap

I'm not really interested in rappers who talk about rap. I don't talk about it, and I don't like listening to other people talk about it. So I stick to the things that I know. You know, things like cars, ultimate fighting. I have a lot of songs about cars, because they're a big part of my lifestyle.

I don't like rap music at all. I don't think it's music. It's just a beat and rapping.

I'm influenced by like, 50 Cent and Chief Keef 'cause they were rapping about the same things I was living.

I believe being honourable lasts longer than rapping good.

Rapping is my dream, but my kids make me happy.

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.

When I first started rapping, I was like, 'I'm gonna be, like, the female Eminem.'

It's mad to think I was just a kid from south London, rapping in parks with friends.

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.

I started rapping when I was about 12 or 13, just playing around with it.

I'll be honest with you: before I heard Nicki rapping, I probably wouldn't have thought to rap myself. Just to see a female doing it and being in there with the guys, it was motivation.

You don't have a lot of women doing things for women, so when I'm rapping I gotta talk all this mess so the women can feel as confident and empowered as the men.

I hate English kids rapping - complete crap.

I used to be the class clown. I was the funny kid. That's why it was so hard for people to understand that I rap, because for a long time, they didn't take me seriously for who I was. By, like, eighth grade, I was really rapping.

I accept who I am. Rapping is not my forte.

Rapping is competitive. Even someone who is not particularly fond of my music, may claim to be my fan only because he hates Honey Singh.

I can't look at TV without seeing something that's been influenced by rap. Even commercials for cereal. When I was small, I was a fan of cartoon characters - now the cartoon characters are rapping!

I'm not completely at ease at rapping, I can't do it well yet.

I started rapping before anybody had ever bought a car from it. It was truly about the art form and the culture, more so than now, where it's a successful way to make money. Back then you had to be doing it because you liked it.

I had written rap songs in the early '90s and even did a couple homemade rap songs with my brother in like '88 or '89, but it was just like... I don't even know how to say it. Just plain rap. I was just rapping about whatever, there was no real style or direction, it was just semi-braggadocious rhymes that probably imitated 100 other rappers.

If you tell somebody that you make music they're all interested. But when you say you rap, they just start rolling their eyes at you. It would've taken me a lot longer to get my foot in the door if I'd continued rapping all the way.

I first started rapping when I heard the Sugarhill Gang in 1979, when I was 11 years old in seventh grade.

I'm rapping in English but in an African way. I'm not trying to sound like an American.

I was rapping in 1939. It's old. The roots are complex. And kids don't know.