Joyner Lucas Quotes

I don't think I'd call myself a rapper.

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

I'm serious; I don't, I don't rap. I flow; I'm a flow-er. You've got rappers, you got MCs, and then you got flow-ers, I'm a flow-er.

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

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 have to be able to rap. I don't have the look. I don't have the typical slim-dude, fancy-clothes look. That's not me. I have to be able to rap - there is no other choice, or else I get eaten alive.

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

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

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.

I was rapping at eight.

I've never considered myself a rapper. I know how to do it. I know how to make my voice project, and I know how to stay on beat and what have you, but I've never considered myself a rapper.

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

I'm living proof that there's no age limit to rapping.

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.

When I was growing up, to be an emcee meant to write the most clever, intellectual, and wittiest rap. And that's what we did.

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

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.

I think that rap is narrative, when it's done right.

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

Rapping for me is more about being entertaining and giving something back to the fans. I want people to say, 'There goes Pooch holding his own with Consequence, Rick Ross, and Drake.'