rap quotes

No, I can’t do rap music!

Compton got such a legacy in hip-hop.

The first rap CD that I had, it was so different for me. The energy, the wordplay, all that caught my attention, and I liked it.

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 pay attention to lyrics and I know what rap fans care about. I try to write for the average listener and I’m conscious of the mainstream without selling out.

From the moment I started writing raps, I was always aware of the pressure. I always wanted to live up to how huge Snoop got, how huge Dre got, how huge Pac got. I was always aware.

Tupac, Biggie, Jay. Your usual suspects. These were the people that was played in my household.

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

My fans love me for me, my beats, my rhymes.

I really appreciate the moments that I was able to win rap album of the year or whatever.

The writing process, the way I go about it is I do whatever the beat feels like, whatever the beat is telling me to do. Usually when the beat comes on, I think of a hook or the subject I want to rap about almost instantly. Within four, eight bars of it playing I’m just like, ‚Oh, OK. This is what I wanna do‘.

My whole thing is to inspire, to better people, to better myself forever in this thing that we call rap, this thing that we call hip hop.

I don’t just listen to rap.

I want to keep making records as long as I can, but I don’t know how long you can be taken seriously in rap.

Rap was my drug.

Biggie Smalls, Jay-Z, Nas, Eminem, Big L, Tupac. That was, like, my top five, generally.

Rap was more of a release for me, a journal.

I don’t even listen to rap. My apartment is too nice to listen to rap in.

They say you can rap about anything except for Jesus, that means guns, sex, lies, video tapes, but if I talk about God my record won’t get played Huh?

We came up with TDE. As competitive as rap is, and as much as we’re trying to exceed the standards we set for ourselves, we take their wins as our wins, too.

Honestly, I’d love to be remembered as one of the best to ever pick up a mic, but if I’m doing my part to lessen some racial tension I feel good about what I’m doing.

I would say that I’m more moved by melody, even though I love to rap.

My only scheme was to be a rapper.

You know, there are artists who are 35 and up that still make rap and that still works for them. I don’t know if I want to be that guy.

I definitely think, generally, rap is misogynistic.

I don’t know how the rap game is, because I’m a fan of reality, and the rap game’s entertainment.

When I’m writing, I’m thinking about how the songs are going to play live. Fifty bars of rap don’t translate onstage. No matter how potent the music, you lose the crowd. They want a hook; they want to sing your stuff back to you.

There were people who incorporated melody before me, but I would deem myself the first person to successfully rap and sing.

What inspires me about rap is that it’s written in an almost poetic way. I just think it’s so cool.

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

Dropkick Murphys get me going, Red Hot Chili Peppers, Nirvana… plus, all the regular hip-hop stuff.