Nellie McKay Quotes

I hate serious rap. It's boring.

I've never been a rap guy, I don't really know that much about rap music, to be honest. I like it, but I think what really happened was just my music seems to work so well with rap music.

When Nas and AZ send you a track, you know it is serious business. Same with Styles P and Jadakiss - then it is serious business. But when you get a trap music track, you know it's time to dumb it down.

I hate rap music, which to me sounds like a bunch of angry men shouting, possibly because the person who was supposed to provide them with a melody never showed up.

But, Eminem... No, I've loved rap for a long time, especially when it got out of its first period and became this gangsta rap, ya know this heavy rap thing? That's when I started to fall in love with it. I loved the lyrics. I loved the beat.

When people say to me 'what do you think of rap music?' my answer is there's no such thing. There's rap and there's music.

I don't really listen to rap; I just like to rap.

I listen to a lot of music, and I listen to some rap, and I do like listening to Biggie Smalls.

Rap music is amazing, it's beautiful. But the problem is the lyrics. The person who writes the lyrics - that's the problem.

My favorite rappers are, I can't really say. I like Kanye because he's so creative. He'll just do anything. I like what Kanye's bringing to the game. Lil Wayne. I like Wayne.

When people say to me, 'What do you think of rap music?', my answer is, 'There's no such thing. There's rap, and there's music.'

In my mind, not in real life. My rap name will be Optimus Rhymes. Or the Notorious B.o.B.

You have this ability in hip hop to be invincibly cool, and that is a part of G-Eazy.

I never liked socially conscious rap. I like rap that's physical, that's about a beat and bass and repetition.

Back in the day, rappers were 'bump bump bump ba bump ba bump.' They was rhyming like that, but I was like, 'bababa bump bump babum ba babump bababa bump.'

Lil Boat 2' people liked, but it was all rap. Some thought it was too much.

There's no other rapper that will drop a better album than me. No one.

I do like Drake's 'Forever.'

Look at Pusha-T. He makes a certain type of rap music. 'Daytona' is that on the highest level.

Earlier in our country, rapping was not considered as a proper art form, as it is not a song. But now, incorporation of rap in Bollywood songs, is giving rappers a chance to show their talent and it is coming to the mainstream.

There was so much music growing up. But definitely Lil Wayne was a big influence because I had more of an understanding of what I was listening to when I was getting older.

I loved Lil Wayne growing up; he was like the king when I was growing up. I remember 'Fireman.' That was one of my favorite songs.

Rap is the only super-current music. If you're into reggae or dancehall, and you don't know Bob Marley, then you don't really know what you're listening to. But if you're listening to rap, and you're 15, you're like, 'Grandmaster Flash? Who's that? Public Enemy? Yeah, my dad told me about them once.' And that's just how it is.

I liked rap from a young age, from listening to MC Hammer and Vanilla Ice.

My taste for rappers is very high. I've only worked with, like, Pac and Jay-Z and Scarface.