Method Man Quotes

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

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

I was rapping at eight.

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

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

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.

I'm not a mumble rapper.

To me, rapping is an art.

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

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

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.

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.'

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

Nobody wants to hear me rap.

I started rapping since, like, 14. But I've been obsessed with rap from when I was 11. I heard 'Baby Don't Cry,' I'll never forget.

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

I'm not really a rapper!

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'm the top rapper in the world.

I really want to learn how to rap. I know it sounds utterly ridiculous!

People compare me to Kendrick. I've seen comparisons with Jay-Z, with Nas, with Chance The Rapper. I get a lot of Eminem comparisons.