Rick Ross Quotes

To me, rapping is an art.

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

I love rap, and I try to write a bit like a rapper, to have a flow.

Being an M.C. is all about just going for the throat.

I'm not tryin' to come off as the best lyricist.

My first songs were energetic because I liked their energy. When I used to battle people every day, I had to go hard. If someone went harder than me, they left with the win. I haven't lost since I was 12 years old.

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

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.

Kendrick Lamar is not a whack rapper, not at all. Do I think he's a super-mega-lyricist? Not really.

I'm not the greatest writer or the great rapper.

Sometimes I want to be completely outlandish and funny, but sometimes I feel the need to prove myself as a rapper.

When you rap, you're using all of yourself.

I know I do swag rap also, but I also take it seriously. It's like 50-50.

With the super duper flow, I created that one word rhyme style.

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

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.

If you want to relate me to the newer cats, let's go. Let's go line for line and bar for bar. If it's all about spitting and metaphors and MCing and lyrics and entendres, I will eat 99 percent of you dudes up.

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

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.

I'm not completely at ease at rapping, I can't do it well yet.

If you know how to freestyle, you will never have writer's block.

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

First thing you have to understand is that freestyling is much different than making hip-hop music: there's another whole element to being a hip-hop MC.

I just love working with Eminem. He's just one of my favorite rappers, and his lyrics - he's a true poet, and I enjoy that about him.