Awkwafina Quotes

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

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

When you rap, you're using all of yourself.

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

Indians have a huge misconception when it comes to rap. It isn't just about heavy beats; it is about poetry.

I mean, when it's time to rhyme rhyme, I can get down for mine.

I've always been jealous of rappers, because they can fit so many words into a song and tell a story with lots of details. But when you're a songwriter, you have to fit the words to the melody and you can't fit as much in. I'm just a big fan of storytelling.

Not everybody is a great rapper; not everybody lives for the art of lyricism.

I write poetry, and I put it to a beat - I mean, that's what they call rap.

I still very much appreciate the storytelling of the best rappers.

I love the feeling of creating pictures in someone's mind just by spelling out the right lyrical combination.

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

Although rap is about boasting, it's also about honesty and expressing your emotions.

I don't think I would change really anything about rap. Rap don't have no limits to it, and I like it like that.

Rap for me is like making movies, telling stories, and getting the emotions of the songs through in just as deep a way. And I grew up in rap and movies the same way.

Drake, I'd like to collaborate with. He's a phenomenal lyricist. Probably the best rapper in the world at the moment. I love Kanye but there's something about Drake; he's more straight up, really clever and really poetic and metaphorical - I love that. He's just clever.

I was never just a 'fill in 16 bars on a beat' rapper. I was making real songs from the jump.

I don't think rap really fits in to 'American Idol' in the sense that I believe rap is an art form in itself more akin to poetry, more akin to drama, if you will.

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

It just happens to be that people like to associate poetry and rap music. I think that idea is kind of corny.

I don't really write any of my raps down. The same, Kanye don't write any of his raps down. Common. It's easy that way. For me, personally, I figure I will lose some of the inspiration in the time of me writing it down, or I'll say it a certain way because I wrote it a certain way.

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

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.

Rap lyrics are really the only thing I've ever written.

The fact that rap has a strict meter and stays to a click means that you have to make your thoughts concise.