Mike Will Made It Quotes

Longevity always come from lyricism. From the people who can actually rap.

When I did rap and rhyme, it wasn't just a word that rhymed with another one.

To me, rapping is an art.

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

First thing you have to understand is that freestyling is much different than making hip-hop music: there's another whole element to being a hip-hop MC.

I had written rap songs in the early '90s and even did a couple homemade rap songs with my brother in like '88 or '89, but it was just like... I don't even know how to say it. Just plain rap. I was just rapping about whatever, there was no real style or direction, it was just semi-braggadocious rhymes that probably imitated 100 other rappers.

If you just freestyle, everybody is gonna go, 'Freestyle.'

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.

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

But I've been freestyling and messing around with rhyming since I was 13. That's when I really started listening to hip-hop music.

I came up in hip-hop, where people value the ability to tell it straight.

A lot of underground hip-hop will inspire me as far as rhyme patterns - really wordy, intelligent lyrics.

I was rapping at eight.

My first songs were energetic because I liked their energy. When I used to battle people every day, I had to go hard. If someone went harder than me, they left with the win. I haven't lost since I was 12 years old.

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

Nas' storytelling was just fire.

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

I'm living proof that there's no age limit to rapping.

A friend of mine encouraged me to try rapping, so I started experimenting with it, writing verses, seeing if I could fit an extra word or syllable into each line without tripping myself up.

When I began to rap, I wasn't taking it real serious. As I start seeing good things, it's getting serious.

When I was growing up, to be an emcee meant to write the most clever, intellectual, and wittiest rap. And that's what we did.

I knew I could rap a little bit, which is not the most unique way for being funny. The more I did it, the better I got at rapping, and then I fell in love with the craft of it, and the possibility that I was a good rapper was very intriguing.

Sometimes I want to be completely outlandish and funny, but sometimes I feel the need to prove myself as a rapper.

I could rap really good on accident. I talk tight and it just sounded... I don't know. It's just such a big genre for me. At the end of the day, rap is the language of the world.