Cupcakke Quotes

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.

A lot of the music, and especially rap, I don't understand.

At the end of the day, you want to be always the one that's one step ahead of everybody, and when it comes to hip-hop, culture and art, you want to be that signature guy.

Writing a song is actually quite easy. Writing a good one is very, very difficult.

I'm here to sing.

We would turn everything into songs in those days.

I mean Gorilla was really our first sort of goes at songwriting.

There's nothing prettier in the world than a melody. I can get lost in a song with a melody. A lot of times I have, and the song wasn't that good, but I would get lost in that melody, and I'd want to do the song.

A rhyme doesn't make a song.

This is just rap. I'm not trying to make people think I'm some sort of scientific wizard or inspirational poet.

And I think as long as a song has beautiful lyrics, I'm so happy.

The beats are like scripts, and the raps are my monologue.

The beauty of a finely worked object points to the beauty of the craftsmanship. The beauty of the craftsmanship points to the beauty of the name which was the source of the craftsmanship. The beauty of the name of the craftsman's art points to the beauty of the craftsman's attributes manifested in that art.

I'm a hip-hop fan.

I sing about life.

The only time I ever really got into rap was back in the early '90s, and bands like A Tribe Called Quest, De La Soul, Gang Starr. Musically, they were really interesting. But when hip-hop acts start sampling Sting or Phil Collins, then I just don't get it at all.

I like hip-hop music.

The fact that my songs take a long time to write is no guarantee of their excellence.

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

'Sandinista!' is a masterpiece.

I think everybody enjoys a little bit of Drake.

I always capture one aspect or the other of Delhi in my raps.

I love songwriting, and rap is part of my songwriting, but I'm not a rapper.