Quotes About Rap

My cousin put me on Three 6 Mafia and Playa Fly. My other big cousin put me on 8Ball and MJG.

I was, like, 12 or 13; the first hip hop song I tried to rapping to was Macklemore's 'Thrift Shop,' and my English was so bad, but learning to rap to different songs really helped me with my pronunciation, and looking at the lyrics on Rap Genius and stuff like that.

Being an M.C. is all about just going for the throat.

I loved rap, especially in the early days. But I wasn't trying to shove it down anybody's throats.

I hate it when people in India throw in an American or English accent while rapping without even a passport in possession.

Jay-Z was huge. I was like 2 years old throwing up my diamond, rapping. I know all of 'The Blueprint.' I've heard that album 1,000 times. And 'Reasonable Doubt.'

Consciousness rap - a term that I don't think exactly exists but gets thrown around a lot - is not exactly popular.

Alex Tumay is a recording engineer who works a lot with Young Thug and a load of other rappers, like Quavo. I'm just a fan of his work.

Future's like an older brother to me, and Thug's more like a brother my age.

I like to put people on my record who will fit in with me. I like thug girls like Trina who look good and talk nasty.

Slim Thug and Z-Ro can make a record together, and even Flip and T.I. can make a record together, but there's a difference between that and Flip and T.I. holding hands and being friends. When people say they want these records, they mean that they want us all to be friends.

I think Lil Uzi is dope. Future is dope. I love Young Thug. I'm a huge Young Thug fan.

I'm a thug and I rap.

I love playing Rick Ross' 'Port of Miami' album. Jeezy's 'Thug Motivation 101' is a classic in my opinion, and I still listen to that album to this day. I'm a big fan of OutKast, so pretty much any album they put out is great in my opinion, but I find myself listening to 'Aquemini' a lot. Anything Kendrick Lamar does is great.

Working with Thug and working with Future feels the same. They don't sound like each other, but their creative process and their level of talent is the same. Anybody who knows both of them would agree.

I like that the hard-core ruffians, the street thugs come up to me and say, 'Man, you killed it with Adele.'

Bone Thugs is one of my favorite rap groups of all time. I listened to them all the time when I was a kid.

You know, Slick Rick was tight at telling stories.

I could rap really good on accident. I talk tight and it just sounded... I don't know. It's just such a big genre for me. At the end of the day, rap is the language of the world.

When you've been raised in care, rap music isn't just about guns and sexism. They're talking about real things you can hang on to, problems of identity that you have sympathy with. It's not just about the music, with rap: when I was in care, it meant a whole lot more than that.

People are so confused about race and hip-hop that people didn't even consider the Beastie Boys one of the greatest rap groups of all time because they were white.

Instead of of being so metaphorical with the rhyme, I was encouraged to go straight at it and hit it dead on and not waste time trying to cover things.

I'm Eminem's AA sponsor. Whenever I ring to check in on him, he always greets me the same way: 'Hello, you cunt', which I guess is very Eminem.

I don't know how the rap game is, because I'm a fan of reality, and the rap game's entertainment.