Stormzy Quotes

This is hip-hop. If you've got something you want to rap about, just rap about it, man.

No, I can't do rap music!

I will say, I can definitely throw down a sick beat once in a while and provide an amazing backup track for somebody who can really, actually freestyle.

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

Toasting is basically what you call rapping. It came off of playing the beats at the parties, however it be. You find a space in the beat, and you have somebody live just basically saying rhymes over the beat.

I know about hip-hop culture, whether it's graffiti writing or DJ-ing or being an MC.

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

I'm a huge hip hop fan going way back, like, back to '83. I had my Gemini mixer listening to Run-DMC and Kurtis Blow.

I remember rap music. We used to party and dance off of it. Today it's all about a whole different angle... Rappers are going against each other, and it's more of a bragging, boasting thing.

I love rapping. I do. My styling's similar to Missy Elliott - I think she's so dope. In a weird way, that's how I first learned the American accent: doing American rap songs.

I've tried to rap, and I cannot do it.

I'm not very good with rap and things like that.

Pac get busy. People can't take nothing from him. On the lyrics, he get busy, straight up.

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

I love hip-hop, and I like the beats the most.

I had written rap songs in the early '90s and even did a couple homemade rap songs with my brother in like '88 or '89, but it was just like... I don't even know how to say it. Just plain rap. I was just rapping about whatever, there was no real style or direction, it was just semi-braggadocious rhymes that probably imitated 100 other rappers.

We always do kinda like the bare bones representation or variation of the voice and drums, which is what we feel is the foundation or backbone of rapping and hip hop.

When I was a kid, I was just rapping about school and stuff like that.

Not anyone can rap to my beats.

I first started rapping when I heard the Sugarhill Gang in 1979, when I was 11 years old in seventh grade.

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

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

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.

I got into DJing and making beats when I was about 17. I was always fascinated by the four elements of hip-hop: you know, writing, rhyming, breakdancing and graffiti.

Hip-hop is when you have crowd participation; when you chant at the audience and they chant back at you; when you wave your hands in the air like you just don't care; or some breakdancing. Everything today is just low-beat, real bass-y, bass-y, good rap records.