ASAP Rocky Quotes

I feel like a lot of people in the hip hop world don't take me seriously as a rapper, and I feel that first-and-foremost I came up as a rapper before I started singing. All a lot of people know from me is 'Cupid's Chokehold,' and they don't scratch the surface and see beyond that dude who sings the song about his girlfriend.

I'm from Atlanta, but I don't really consider myself an 'Atlanta rapper.'

I'm pretty sure people thought I was like a dope rapper.

I don't consider myself a gangsta rapper. But I'm probably more qualified to be a gangsta rapper than people who call themselves that. I've been through that life.

What I don't do is try to like become whoever I'm rapping with. The people who go get an LL album want to hear LL.

Rap is from the streets and I'm from the streets. That's why a lot of people accept me.

I love what Drake does, but I don't want to be called the Drake of country.

Hip-hop is so saturated with the same old same old that people always expect the guy to actually be the guy. They want you to be real and straight from the streets and all that.

The way I rap is very west coast.

I felt like I related to East Coast lyricism a little more. Because I couldn't be super gangsta.

I'm not just a great white rapper. I'm a great rapper.

I never really considered myself super hip-hop, ever in life. I don't think anything that I've done reflects that.

I'm not ever going to - ever going to be able to put on chains and become the Migos.

I'm still an outsider in the hip hop community. I don't even know if I'm making hip hop anymore.

I can show these folks I can do more than just the 'trap.' But what I realized is the trap is what they really recognize me for - that's what they want to hear.

I listen to all kinds of music and sometimes I try to do something that's referential to an era or a genre, but it still sounds like me.

We've always imagined ourselves as a rock band. We've always been a rock band playing the wrong instruments.

A lot of rap music can get repetitive.

I feel like Black Milk has found his way of putting his life into his music. I feel like, lyrically, he is a beast; a lot of people sleep on Black Milk. Black Milk is a monster. He from church. He from the street. He get down how I get down. He's a soulful cat, and I love how he get down.

I'm a real rapper.

My dad raised me on metal, but my first serious love was hip-hop.

There's Jay-Z, who morphs a certain street hustler's cool and indifference into CEO extravagance. But for all his prominence, Jay-Z hasn't written a lot of crossover hits.

Every generation wants that real hip-hop. And I've always been able to bring that.

You can listen to the records and know: We're really street.

When my time is up in hip-hop, it's going to remain what Afrika Bambaataa thought it was supposed to be. It's going to remain what Kool Herc thought it was supposed to be; what Wu-Tang Clan sees it as; what Outkast sees it as; what Snoop Dogg sees it as. People are trying to forget that brand of hip-hop.