Quotes About Rap

I stick to Hindi rap. That is my USP. It gives an Indian essence to my music despite the foreign influence of the genre.

Lisa 'Left-Eye' Lopes in TLC, she stood out a lot with her rap. It was so different, the way she would flow.

Sometimes I feel like rap music is almost the key to stopping racism.

When I started listening to rap music, I loved the fact that there were stories being told in 16 bars.

I wanted to write a book like a rapper would write it - I didn't want to hold back. Rappers catch a lot of slack; I'm not going to be cursing up a storm, but when I look at Nas... his first album is one of my favorites. I want to tell stories like that.

Usually, when I'm rappin', I'm creating a big story or a concept song that sounds like a movie to me.

2Pac made me want to rap, he made me want to speak my ghetto story and not be ashamed of it.

When Slick Rick first hit the scene, I had to practice that British accent. There's no other storyteller like this man.

I still very much appreciate the storytelling of the best rappers.

While writing a normal song, we just pen four lines and then we have a chorus and some lines again. But rap is about storytelling and requires extra effort to write.

I've always been jealous of rappers, because they can fit so many words into a song and tell a story with lots of details. But when you're a songwriter, you have to fit the words to the melody and you can't fit as much in. I'm just a big fan of storytelling.

I was lucky enough to see the original cast of 'In the Heights.' This one blew my mind. The infusion of Latin, hip hop and rap with musical theatre, great storytelling and talent was a powerful combination to me during a time when I'd not been moved by much!

Nas' storytelling was just fire.

I've never been the straight rapper that is going to stand in a cipher and battle all day. I started off battle rapping, but to me, making songs became more important than freestyles... I've met many rappers who can freestyle but can't make a record.

My take on rap is driven by straightforward American southern rock and blues.

The roots of rap are originally ghetto-ised or extremely working class. So when you're an artist who's making something which isn't how its mainstream appearance should be, there's always these strange questions of authenticity and what you have to do to be 'real' as a rapper.

It's a funny thing about rap, that when you say 'I' into the microphone, it's like a public confession. It's very strange.

This is going to seem odd, but I love Eminem because he has so much conviction and emotion in the way he raps. Every word that he raps, you feel it.

We work pretty fast. I might be working, and I might knock out two, three songs. Quavo might come in two, three himself. Offset might come and do the same.

You don't need a band to do hip-hop; you only need a DJ.

Being an emcee onstage is mostly about crowd control, about monitoring energy levels.

I openly share music with Drake, especially when it's time for him to have a project.

Timeless, so age don't count in the booth When your flow stay submerged in the fountain of youth

If you're 30, 40 years old, you're not getting listened to by minors. Like, Jay Z has some of the sickest lyrics ever, but I would never buy his CD, just because of my age and because of his age.