Slick Rick Quotes

I mean, when it's time to rhyme rhyme, I can get down for mine.

Usually, my rhymes are just in my head. I start off with a theme, and once I start rapping and writing and singing, the chorus and all that, it just starts flowing. Then it's done in about an hour! I write a lot of songs.

A lot of the hip hop artists don't write music. They write words.

I don't know how I started rapping. The first I did was at school. I tried writing one. I liked it. People started to like it. It was what I wanted to do.

I still to this day get the most inspiration from rap lyrics.

I love rap, and I try to write a bit like a rapper, to have a flow.

With the super duper flow, I created that one word rhyme style.

I write poetry, and I put it to a beat - I mean, that's what they call rap.

The record Clef and I did was just sitting there. So I said, Clef, I got a record, hit a verse on it. He just went in, messed around and ended up doing the hook too.

I think that rap is narrative, when it's done right.

I've been thinking of trying my hand at rap. I've been recording snippets on my BlackBerry.

Pac get busy. People can't take nothing from him. On the lyrics, he get busy, straight up.

Kendrick Lamar is not a whack rapper, not at all. Do I think he's a super-mega-lyricist? Not really.

Rap - it's a childhood passion. Writing rhymes, it's something that I was doing before rap records even existed. And I will continue to write until I can't write anymore.

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

My raps be crazy, and my hooks are nasty.

Drake is damn near the best with melodies.

I think everybody has their own inner rap spirit animal.

If you're really a rapper, you can't stop rapping.

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

Toasting is basically what you call rapping. It came off of playing the beats at the parties, however it be. You find a space in the beat, and you have somebody live just basically saying rhymes over the beat.

My girlfriend is rap. Music and albums and records and my kids.

Although rap is about boasting, it's also about honesty and expressing your emotions.

If I could rap, that would be a sensation, but I can't, you see, I'm just a Caucasian.

I am obsessed with rap music - it's such a big part of my life.