Chanel West Coast Quotes

Rapping was something I always wanted to do, so after school, my friends and I would catch the bus to my house and just sit there writing songs, every day.

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.

Some MCs don't take the time to take a beat home or just vibe with it and just figure out, 'How do I attack this track?'

Ever since I was a little kid, I would always rap. I just loved it. But when I really got into it seriously was when I saw 'Kill Bill.'

I am my own parent when it comes to rapping and do impromptu stuff. Being a rapper, you have to be good at improvising, like you give me a word and I have to rhyme it quickly and then make sense out of the rhyme.

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

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

I've always been rapping before I was making money off of it. Before I made a profit, I had always 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.

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

It was a little at a time but I broke out my Walkman and my lyric pad and started writing.

You know how a person is made for something? Eminem is made for hip-hop. The best rapper is a white man.

I started rapping when I was about 12 or 13, just playing around with it.

I was rapping at eight.

I listen a lot to rap, and I'm inspired to take it, to use it in another way, to get the message across.

When I found Freestyle Fellowship, I started getting into the construction of rap. You get better at it the more you do it; you figure out the science and the math behind it.

I've been known to drop a spoken-word bit into a song from time to time. But not straight-up rap. I don't know that I have that gift.

I started rapping when I was young, like 12, 11. But I wasn't really talking about nothing and it didn't really get me nowhere.

Rap lyrics are really the only thing I've ever written.

Ultimately, I really like to rap, and seeing what I can do to keep it fresh for myself has lent itself to tailoring over time.

I was 17 when I first started rapping and 18 before I started taking it seriously - when I really knew I could rap and have fans and be a trendsetter.

No one will ever be able to come against me on the beats.

When I first started making music, I was pretty drawn to hip-hop beats wrapped together with super-good lyrics. The most important thing in that is wordplay, so that stayed with me when I started writing songs.

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.

You always hear rappers say they don't write, but they're not really talking about anything.