John Cena Quotes

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

Being a student of hip-hop in general, you take technical aspects from places. You may take a rhyme pattern or flow from Big Daddy Kane or Kool G Rap.

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.

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

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

I've been a fan of Bunji's freestyling since the first time I saw him perform, back in the early 2000s.

To me, rapping is an art.

Ever since I was a kid I've been rapping.

A lot of the younger kids now can rap, but they're scared of the crowd. Mastery of that stage is an MC. I don't know if you've seen any great MCs on stage but when you do it's like wow, this is more than the words to rhymes.

I haven't done rap... I can't do that too well.

I was rapping at eight.

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

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.

I was real serious when it came to rapping. I still do, but even more so when I was real young.

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 got a close friend who raps.

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.

There's a heavy hip-hop influence in my music, some trap influence, but it's always lyrical.

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

I never knew anything about rapping.

Rappers tend to use words sometimes that just rhyme and don't really mean nothing.

I'm a pretty terrible rapper. I always have been.

There's a guy on YouTube named Mac Lethal - he spits hot fire.

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

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