Awkwafina Quotes

I think hip-hop is really fun right now... and that's why people are using dance beats and singing more.

I make up stories in my head all the time, but I've never written them down. But I write a lot of story songs. Any song I'm singing, I sort of see it like a movie in my head. That's why a lot of times I close my eyes when I'm singing.

I look at rap as an opportunity to act. My head is full of different characters - in each song I'm auditioning a character.

I don't know how I started rapping. The first I did was at school. I tried writing one. I liked it. People started to like it. It was what I wanted to do.

I've always been a writer. I've always done writing or spoken-word, hip-hop stuff with my friends.

As soon as I get the chance, I'll be back spouting nonsense on the microphone.

I always like spoken word records.

Nothing has more words and performance than rap music.

I hadn't really thought about the kind of music I wanted to make. I was just making raps and stuff. I thought that was the coolest thing in the world.

It's my job to have ups and downs because it makes good music.

For me, the choreography always comes from the music.

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.

I would write down the lyrics to 'C.R.E.A.M.' in Korean - not translating it, but phonetically writing out each word. I didn't know what they were saying, so I would just write everything down as I heard it. I would recite it and imitate it like that. That's how I started to write my own raps.

I was already writing poetry, so I transitioned from writing poetry a cappella to writing over beats, and it was way more exciting to me that way.

Writing is very much perceived as something distinct from performance. I don't see it like that.

If I gotta do a Jay-Z beat I want to stop everything. Tell everybody hold my calls, everything.

If the script doesn't excite me, there's no point working on the music.

A lot of our earlier material was freestyle tunes.

A lot people don't know that Mannie Fresh is one of my favorite producers because I used to just be fascinated with how he would be producing stuff. He'd be silly, too, when he raps.

Tales of Tacobella' showed that I can rap.

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

I freestyled the hook to 'Target.' I got into cadence and then it sparked the idea.

Hip hop's all about expression. That's why I got into it.

A lot of people's favorite rappers will literally get in the booth and just make sounds.

Growing up, Tina Turner was definitely one of my influences, and, um, I take things from different artists, and I put them in my music, and I put them in my persona and my - they help me form into the artist that I am, so - for people to actually hear that come through the music is exciting.