Prodigy Quotes

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 started rapping when I was young, like 12, 11. But I wasn't really talking about nothing and it didn't really get me nowhere.

I was 17 when I first started rapping and 18 before I started taking it seriously - when I really knew I could rap and have fans and be a trendsetter.

I think if you pick up a microphone and you rap, you're a rapper.

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

I've been trying to nail it into everyone's heads that I feel like I am the most versatile rapper.

Rapping is the only time I'm serious.

I was rapping at eight.

A friend of mine encouraged me to try rapping, so I started experimenting with it, writing verses, seeing if I could fit an extra word or syllable into each line without tripping myself up.

I knew I could rap a little bit, which is not the most unique way for being funny. The more I did it, the better I got at rapping, and then I fell in love with the craft of it, and the possibility that I was a good rapper was very intriguing.

To me, rapping is an art.

Ever since I was a kid I've been rapping.

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

A lot of the younger kids now can rap, but they're scared of the crowd. Mastery of that stage is an MC. I don't know if you've seen any great MCs on stage but when you do it's like wow, this is more than the words to rhymes.

There's a guy on YouTube named Mac Lethal - he spits hot fire.

I came up in hip-hop, where people value the ability to tell it straight.

Being a student of hip-hop in general, you take technical aspects from places. You may take a rhyme pattern or flow from Big Daddy Kane or Kool G Rap.

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

All rappers are princesses like me.

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

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

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.

I've been rapping since I was 13.

The cats that are doing they thing, you have to search to really find them, to find rappers that can actually rap and speak messages in the music. That's not a good thing at all.

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