Quotes About Rap

People know, lyrically, I go in, and you should never take me lightly on any record.

Being a new artist, I was trying to make a good album and hope that people like Kool Moe Dee and Melle Mel and some of the firstborns appreciated it. I was being influenced by them brothers there. That's where I got my start and my first listen.

Everyone has a little niche in rap, and I just wanted to carve a piece out of it for myself.

A lot of Friday nights, Guru and I would go kick it with Biggie, since he was just three blocks down from us.

Nineties hip-hop in particular really shaped what became the common pop cultural language that we all speak.

Nineties hip-hop was a big influence for me; it still is. I love '90s everything. And it's when I was born, too. I'm a '90s kid for sure.

I got no problem with Nas.

I didn't feel like there was anything incompatible with my love of gangster rap and my spiritual aspirations.

A homeless man once told me that dancing to rap music is the cultural equivalent of masturbating, and I'd sort of fell the same way about playing John Madden Football immediately after filing my income tax: It's fun, but - somehow - vaguely pathetic.

I do think musical-theater actors can get a bad rap, and I see why. There is a certain slickness - there's nothing better than an amazing musical, but an okay musical can be one of the worst times you've ever had.

sharp rap at the door, followed by an extremely welcome: "Police!

I think most music provides the same messages - whether it be 'I'm unhappy' or 'I love a girl.' I just liked the package of rap music.

When I first got into the rap game, I had an early dream of unifying rappers.

I look at Puff Daddy as somebody that gave me a chance to prove the whole world wrong. Cause when I used to think about rap, everybody would say, 'Well, you talk too slow,' or, 'You rap too slow,' when in reality, that was my uniqueness.

With me being form the South, I wanted to make this album like a G Unit.

I signed with Kanye back in 2003, and at that time, 'The College Dropout' hadn't even come out, so he was still relatively unknown compared to where he is now. He wasn't a household name; people were still calling him 'Kane.'

I can't remember 16 bars. Unless you write it, you can't. I just do it bar for bar.

The myth of black women profiting at the expense of black men is the oldest rap around.

Religion has gotten a bad rap for good reasons. Often, there are a lot of people - women, LBGT, and others - you know, hierarchical monotheism has been a real source of a type of oppression.

Rap is supposed to motivate, humours, address societal issues & personal feelings, and also liberate me through art, not insult our women.

Celebrity is ridiculous and silly and it's mad that people like me are listened to - you know, rap stars and movie stars.

When I found Freestyle Fellowship, I started getting into the construction of rap. You get better at it the more you do it; you figure out the science and the math behind it.

I have no idea about the state of rap. I don't pay attention. I just listen to old music that I have.

I remember going backstage on a random night and Kanye goes, 'Ayo Premier, I'm about to drop an album called 'College Dropout' and I'm rapping on the whole thing. And as I soon it drop it's gonna go double platinum.' I looked at him like, 'That's a bold statement to make if you never rapped before.'