BJ the Chicago Kid Quotes

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

As far as rapping goes, as long as you are telling the truth and you have a good flow, then you win.

Rap music deserves truth, and it deserves spontaneity.

I'm just a Harlem dude that can rap, and people dig my style and persona.

Hip-hop is the last true folk art.

In the past it seemed like I was making fun of rap a little bit. But it was more me making fun of myself, since I'm not technically a rapper, whatever that means.

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

I started rapping before anybody had ever bought a car from it. It was truly about the art form and the culture, more so than now, where it's a successful way to make money. Back then you had to be doing it because you liked it.

It's bad poetry executed by people that can't sing. That's my definition of Rap.

I like rap. I like anything with soul. I like anything you can feel, anything that makes you think that the artist had to make that song, or they were going to go crazy.

I'm pretty sure people thought I was like a dope rapper.

Hip-hop is all about impact, baby. You can sell records, you can be two-times platinum, you can be gold... but if you lame, you lame, man. We try to provide the exact opposite of that. It's style, individuality, confidence. We exude that.

They keep the song as street as it needs to be. It's got a good catchy hook where it can do what it needs to do on the radio, but they keep the song street where it will keep credibility in the hood.

Big Rube was on my first album and some of my mixtapes. His words are so powerful. I want to speak every word he says into existence. I wanna be a part of that! I wanna be a part of greatness. His wordplay is great to me.

The first album was 99 percent hard core to show you I was the best rhymer in the world.

When I'm not in the booth, I'm one of the most laid-back guys. But growing up, I liked DMX, Jay-Z, 50 Cent, and T.I. - dudes that went all out on the track. My first songs were energetic because I liked their energy.

I'm obviously not a rapper, and I don't have any claims to be one, really.

Rap is only one end of a whole spectrum of verbal play and virtuosity. Rap is geared for aural pleasure.

Nas is one of my favorite rappers because you don't get any of that flashy stuntin'; you get the real, just raw bars. The way he tells stories and his vibe, I think we would make great music together.

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.

They say I'm the Hottest MC in the Game. If you label me that, I will live up to it. Trust me.

The MC that we love are usually the ones that we consider be kinda heartless, like 50 Cent. That's pretty much the prowess and power of an MC. That's what sells.

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

Biggie was a lyrical genius: he was a musical painter with words. As he rapped, you would see the picture come to life as you heard his story. You hear a lot of rappers rap; you hear a lot of singers sing, but you don't see the movie in your head the way you do when you hear Biggie rap.