Quotes About Rap

Maybe my records might make the next Ja Rule or Jay-Z want to rap.

The battle thing is very important in hip-hop, but at the same time, I want to sit down and have a beer and listen to Rakim.

When I was young what made me really want to be a rapper was when I saw MC Lyte.

Earlier, I did sing for 'Kaante' and a couple of other films but I had never done rap before. Marathi rap is something new and I enjoyed it.

Sometimes I want to be completely outlandish and funny, but sometimes I feel the need to prove myself as a rapper.

When I wrote for Eazy, I wrote for the character. Everybody knew Eazy loved girls, so I would make him funny, even though it was somewhat misogynistic.

Although I have made my career on dirty raps, I have worked over the years to somewhat balance the content of my music with giving back to the community.

My son, O'Shea. He looks like me, and he can rhyme.

My 9-year-old daughter can recite every line from 'Easy Rider,' and that is not an easy song to do. She raps all of Nicki Minaj and everything; she's dope. She has my musical ear for sure. She sings, and she's beautiful. It's very powerful.

I look at rap as an opportunity to act. My head is full of different characters - in each song I'm auditioning a character.

I've got songs that'll make a gangster cry.

I'd like to do a completely off-the-wall collaboration. I would like one of my songs to be the hook to a rap song. That would be so much fun!

I don't think Flo Rida gets on just any song. If you look at the songs he has done - even The Saturdays one - was a hit. If it's not good enough, then he won't do it.

Just knowing how to rap doesn't necessarily mean that you're a good songwriter.

I love songwriting, and rap is part of my songwriting, but I'm not a rapper.

I grew up listening to a lot of rap music. My dad's a DJ from Brooklyn, and he's a very soulful guy, so he always spun a lot of hip-hop, and that's where I get a lot of my hip-hop influence.

Rap bores me, and all the glamour rock groups like Bon Jovi just amuse me. They obviously have a place, but they all sound like they use the same guitar player to me.

Of course, if you're gonna make a rap song, you're gonna want to sound like Melle Mel.

Now I listen to all kinds of music except rap, which all sounds the same to me.

When I am driving to an audition, I listen to the 'Hamilton: The Musical' soundtrack. It's super inspiring, but also, if I kind of sing-slash-rap along to it, it helps me with my pronunciation and dialect.

I've been rapping on some crunk beats and getting down on the South music for years. I feel like I can do it all.

Being from the South, I was really into Southern rap, but I listened to a lot of stuff from all over.

I'm a hip-hop fan, and I'm a Southern Cali girl.

I'm a female face for Atlanta and that's never been done before on a mainstream massive scale. That alone is my lane. And then, my Southern open flow with the bars, that separates me. And my authenticity.