Michael Beasley Quotes

I still to this day get the most inspiration from rap lyrics.

I think that rap is narrative, when it's done right.

I've been trying to nail it into everyone's heads that I feel like I am the most versatile rapper.

I think hip-hop does a very good job of infusing comedy and humor and wit into music, a lot more than other genres.

I feel like rap fit me better. I could hoop. I could have went and did that, but this is my lifestyle, my temperament, my mentality.

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

I was just trying to fit into a certain spectrum. Just like, basic rap.

I don't want people to confuse me as an MC that talk about nothing.

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

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

The difference between me as Brian Warner or Marilyn Manson is just words. Same personality, sensibility, sense of humor, behavior. He is me.

I feel like I changed hip-hop.

Biggie and Big Pun were the best storytellers of the '90s. I would get wrapped up in the narrative of what they were talking about.

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.

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.

With rap, it's a funny thing. You can say things, and people can take 'em the way they wanna take 'em.

I guess I am a rapper. It's weird to be called that, or tell someone that's your profession.

Rapping is the only time I'm serious.

Hip-hop is not all '2 Chainz' - although '2 Chainz' is awesome. How he does that with metaphors, I don't know.

I still wanna rap better than everybody else, and I wanna say important things.

I feel like with a lot of Madlib's beats, they are made for storytelling. I feel like when I'm working on stuff with him, I can really get into the storytelling aspect mode of my flow.

The cats that are doing they thing, you have to search to really find them, to find rappers that can actually rap and speak messages in the music. That's not a good thing at all.

Big Sean is one of the dopest rappers, of my lifetime for sure. Like, Big Sean is one of the best rappers. Period.

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