Kool Moe Dee Quotes

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

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

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

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

When I was 16, I was rapping just to rap.

My freestyling ability is nonexistent. I can't even write a verse if I tried to sit anywhere and write one. Being a good rapper is hard to do. I'm a good Rapaport, but that's about it.

I said Yo Jay, I can rap. And I spit this rap that said I'm killin' ya'll *****s on this lyrical sh*t, mayonnaise colored benz, I push miracle whips.

Some kids my age experiment with drugs, I experiment with music.

I like the whole laid-back rapping. I wish I could rap! I wish I could wrap like Azealia Banks or Lil Wayne or someone like that.

Half the rhymes you write, you're saying that you're better than the other MC. That's how we keep the craft sharp.

If you want to say something profound, writing from your heartbeat is different than writing from the loud voices you get from music. If they're rapping from noise, it's about robbing people. It's that simple.

If I don't write, I begin to feel unsettled and uneasy, as I gather people do who are not allowed to dream.

From my vantage point in writing a story, I can't and don't and have no interest in thinking about the level of sophistication of the audience. I can only think about what interests me, and maybe what I would want to see if I were watching the movie. To me, that's the key to writing something that's not pandering.

Writing is not just a job. It helps me to pray. It's a way of being.

The lives great artists live and the books they write are two very different things.

I started freestyling with friends about eight or nine years ago. I started writing also around the same time, but didn't meet blockhead until about '94. I started making beats not until about '96.

Form is never more than an extension of content.

While I was an addict, I didn't write anything. I didn't have the attention span or the will.

Writing is a strong easement for perplexity. My life is a map, spread out with all the rivers and hills showing.

Nothing can injure a man's writing if he's a first-rate writer. If a man is not a first-rate writer, there's not anything can help it much. The problem does not apply if he is not first rate because he has already sold his soul for a swimming pool.

Writing is the thing that props me up.

Why does one begin to write? Because she feels misunderstood, I guess. Because it never comes out clearly enough when she tries to speak. Because she wants to rephrase the world, to take it in and give it back again differently, so that everything is used and nothing is lost. Because it's something to do to pass the time until she is old enough to experience the things she writes about.

I try not to focus on what people say too much because there's nothing I can do about it. All I can do is focus on staying true to the style of music I write and sing because that is the only way it's going to come off as honest.