Ajay Naidu Quotes

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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

Rap - it's a childhood passion. Writing rhymes, it's something that I was doing before rap records even existed. And I will continue to write until I can't write anymore.

When I was in fourth grade, I started writing a lot of poetry, and eventually, someone in the church was like, 'You should switch this over to rapping.' I went home and did that - started putting my poems over rap.

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

I don't sing melodically. Rhyme pattern is how I sing. I also write like a lyricist or an MC because that's what I was before I was a singer. I just took those elements and put them into music.

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.

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

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'm serious; I don't, I don't rap. I flow; I'm a flow-er. You've got rappers, you got MCs, and then you got flow-ers, I'm a flow-er.

You don't have to be a good singer any more if you can rap well.

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

And to turn it into rap wasn't too difficult besides just rhymin' the last words of each line.

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

I was rapping at eight.

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.

Nas' storytelling was just fire.

Longevity always come from lyricism. From the people who can actually rap.