Lil Durk Quotes

I've been rapping since I was 13.

I was real serious when it came to rapping. I still do, but even more so when I was real young.

I was a rapper who was 13 or 14 years old at one point, and it was a dream. I used to see videos of other rappers around the world, and I used to hope that I could be like that one day.

One thing that I do want to say is Drake, as an artist, anybody has to respect him. He's in the game, and he's been in the game - he has longevity, even if he doesn't write or writes his music.

I never wanted to be no rapper.

I've always been rapping before I was making money off of it. Before I made a profit, I had always been rapping.

I always wanted to be one of the hottest rappers.

I think the greatest hip-hop artist of all time is Jay-Z, without a doubt. He just keeps amazing me with his performance, and since '96, that guy has been producing at least one hit every summer and every winter. That's a pretty good resume.

I've been rapping since I was 18 years old, with a crew called Blades.

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

I started rapping towards the end of middle school. In high school, with a lot of my friends, we would make beats and just start rapping - beating on the wall, beating on the table and freestyling.

When I began to rap, I wasn't taking it real serious. As I start seeing good things, it's getting serious.

I want to be a rap icon.

I always envisioned myself being a rapper and being in the game and having success, but you never know what it feels like or how you're going to be when you're there.

But I've been freestyling and messing around with rhyming since I was 13. That's when I really started listening to hip-hop music.

The weird thing about rap is that you don't get compared in the same way that athletes do, even though it's probably the most competitive sport in music. In basketball, they look at a player and say: 'This guy was the best in his prime at this sport.' But in rap it's not until you're dead or retired that people think about it like that.

Back in the day, when the D.J. would be playing a record, I'd be on the mic trying to hype up the crowd. So once Public Enemy became a rap group, I decided that that's the role that I wanted to take on. I wanted to be the one that was hyping, because I've always been good at it. I can hype up any crowd.

The rappers have gone in and created a lot of hit music based upon my influence. And they'll tell you if you ask.

I used to MC a bit when I was young - 14 or 15 years old.

I haven't done rap... I can't do that too well.

All rappers are princesses like me.

And I just pray that god gives me longevity in the music industry.

When I get asked for advice for a young person starting in the music business, I tell them, 'Play every chance you get, and be real lucky.'

I'm headed towards greatness. I think I'm making history in hip-hop.

Rapping was something I always wanted to do, so after school, my friends and I would catch the bus to my house and just sit there writing songs, every day.