Quotes About Rap

I was born in San Francisco. I was raised in Oakland, so I'm, like, super Bay Area born, and, you know, it's just really multicultural up there, and there's a lot of subcultures just from, like, anything, like from rockabilly to, like, crazy punk scenes to, you know, a huge rap scene, and there's just all kinds of things you can do out there.

Rap is rhythm and poetry. Hip-hop is storytelling and poetry as well.

I love Jay personally and as an artist; I think he's incredible.

I met Kendrick, and we were in the studio. He picked a bunch of beats out; that was great. He's a great guy - we vibed out for the day.

I'm cool with Dr. Dre, I have his phone number, and he picks up when I call.

I still wanna rap better than everybody else, and I wanna say important things.

Pete Rock, CL Smooth, all this East Coast stuff - that's kind of, like, the rappers I first admired. I wanna rap just like them because I just thought they were so hard. I thought their delivery was so crazy.

Eminem heard my music, and he didn't wanna take a meeting with me.

I wanna make more songs than anybody, I wanna be the oldest rapper who is active.

I really like hip-hop and rap; that's my main influence. I really wanna be more of a hip-hop artist.

Gibberish rap is - I freestyle all the time, just hangin' out with friends. And sometimes when I'm freestyling, I'll lose my flow, you know, but I'll still wanna - I don't wanna just stop rapping because I lose my flow. So I'll just put in nonsense words till I can bring in regular words again.

I was never really like, 'Oh, I wanna be famous,' you know, 'I wanna be a big rapper.' I mean, I love rap, but it wasn't just fame.

I wanna do a song with Macklemore. I really wanna do a song with him.

I wanna keep rapping, I intend to. It's good to mix it up, but I'm still gonna stay true to rapping.

Back in the day, when the D.J. would be playing a record, I'd be on the mic trying to hype up the crowd. So once Public Enemy became a rap group, I decided that that's the role that I wanted to take on. I wanted to be the one that was hyping, because I've always been good at it. I can hype up any crowd.

I always wanted to be one of the hottest rappers.

Obviously, Jay Z definitely got my attention. I thought it was pretty cool that he wanted me on the team.

I looked at the rap community like street kids wanting their own brand. But now I look at that period with the rappers in the 90s as a trend of the moment. What it taught me was never to follow a trend, because trends move on.

I feel like when it comes to rap - like, real rap music - and knowing the pioneers of rap, I feel like there's no competition for me in the NBA. Other guys can rap, but they're not as invested or as deep into actual music as I am and always have been. I think that might be what the difference is. I'm more wanting to be an artist.

While also, importantly, not wanting to dumb it down or pretend the days of 'difficult' poetry are over, because we live in a pluralist culture and there's room for 'difficult' poetry alongside rap and everything else. And poetry won't be for everyone, but everyone should have the choice.

I came from the South Side of Chicago wanting to be a rap artist and make videos.

As a poet, I would always hear emcees come up to me and say, 'Yo, you should rap,' and I was like, 'No.' You know, the label was tough for me. I'm a poet. I was proud of that distinction between the two, not wanting to be the other.

When 'G' Thang' was created, I was living in Agoura Hills, and Snoop and Warren G were living with me.

Before 'Panda,' I had a buzz already.