Quotes About Art

I'm not really a rapper!

I think if you pick up a microphone and you rap, you're a rapper.

I am not a rapper. And I believe people in India are not even clear with the whole idea of rap or what it signifies.

A good rapper is an amazing thing to me. It's like a 17th-, 18th-century poet.

That's something I can never lose: my love for the art of rap. As I grew older and became more interested in song writing, it just pushed my possibilities further. I always have to have a foot firmly on the floor as a rapper, because that's how I started.

All rappers exaggerate.

A lot of times, when people say hip-hop, they don't know what they're talking about. They just think of the rappers. When you talk about hip-hop, you're talking about the whole culture and movement. You have to take the whole culture for what it is.

There are not many people that I respect more than rappers. I'm a huge fan of hip hop. It's incredible, one of the most influential things to me. It takes real genius to be able to do well. It's a very deep art form.

I don't like rap music at all. I don't think it's music. It's just a beat and rapping.

I always wrote poems when I was a little girl, and I loved hip hop music, and I kind of just started writing poems over beats, and that's when I started rapping.

I started rapping when I was about 12 or 13, just playing around with it.

I started rapping before anybody had ever bought a car from it. It was truly about the art form and the culture, more so than now, where it's a successful way to make money. Back then you had to be doing it because you liked it.

I don't have to work on it. I'm naturally a writer. The rapping and writing, they can go hand-in-hand - but rapping is an art that you have to practice and master, so I worked at it for a long time.

I started rapping since, like, 14. But I've been obsessed with rap from when I was 11. I heard 'Baby Don't Cry,' I'll never forget.

I started by producing, and the rapping came second to that, because I wanted to fill out the beat.

To be rapping in a musical on Broadway is just - that sentence doesn't make any sense in my brain.

When I'm rapping, I become very emotional, and people can feel it through my face.

Rapping was a joke, but the music helped me break out of my shell.

With rapping, that's just another form of expressing your music. Whether you're going to rap, you're going to sing, it's whatever you want.

I always loved music, and really, I've been rapping since I was, like, 12.

I have 'Very Rare' tatted on my face.

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I'm without a doubt a producer first. The lyrics happen towards the tail-end of the process, mainly because they're more stream-of-consciousness. It's very rare that I'm going to tell a really concrete story.