Ty Dolla Sign Quotes

When I found Freestyle Fellowship, I started getting into the construction of rap. You get better at it the more you do it; you figure out the science and the math behind it.

Gunna ain't never wrote no song for me. He just showed me how to rap.

You know that I can make hits. You know I can do all these rap records.

I guess rap has such a bad name, because everybody can do it now, and that's probably why people don't want to be considered as rappers anymore, they're not taken seriously anymore. But yeah, rap is definitely the core of what I want to do. But I'm also an artist so I try to do as many things as I can, but I always keep rap in the equation.

No one will ever be able to come against me on the beats.

You hear what Thug says in his songs - the musical level of it is so crazy that it doesn't register with some people, so they call it trash. But anybody who loves music can appreciate what he's doing.

I say if you don't write your lyrics, then you can't be the best rapper alive. Not at all. You can be one of the best artists, especially in rap, you gotta write everything yourself.

There are not many people that I respect more than rappers. I'm a huge fan of hip hop. It's incredible, one of the most influential things to me. It takes real genius to be able to do well. It's a very deep art form.

I would say my dream collaboration would probably have to be with Drake. I think he is an amazing artist.

A lot of the hip hop artists don't write music. They write words.

The rappers have gone in and created a lot of hit music based upon my influence. And they'll tell you if you ask.

I think that Eminem is very talented and remarkably bright, and I actually do like a lot of his music.

It's bad poetry executed by people that can't sing. That's my definition of Rap.

Look at music: I've always loved hiphop and rap, and now there's this whole progressive movement, with De La Soul and Mos Def, Common. It's some of the best stuff around.

Common would come to my house and give me a freestyle verse. I'd make a new beat for it and put it with something else. That's how I met Eminem - he came to my house back when he first started. He gave me a bunch of freestyles, and that's how we built a relationship. Everyone came to my house.

I don't feel that rap has been respected as an art form. Because people have seen rappers rap off the top of their heads, they don't think it is difficult.

I've been thinking of trying my hand at rap. I've been recording snippets on my BlackBerry.

I'm obviously not a rapper, and I don't have any claims to be one, really.

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 known to drop a spoken-word bit into a song from time to time. But not straight-up rap. I don't know that I have that gift.

I'm the best SoundCloud rapper.

When I first started making music, I was pretty drawn to hip-hop beats wrapped together with super-good lyrics. The most important thing in that is wordplay, so that stayed with me when I started writing songs.

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

I think Post Malone makes great records, but I don't think he's a good rapper at all.

With rapping, that's just another form of expressing your music. Whether you're going to rap, you're going to sing, it's whatever you want.