Jay Pharoah Quotes

To me, rapping is an art.

I never knew anything about rapping.

I used to MC a bit when I was young - 14 or 15 years old.

I've been rapping since 1979.

I've been rapping since I was 18 years old, with a crew called Blades.

I was 17 when I first started rapping and 18 before I started taking it seriously - when I really knew I could rap and have fans and be a trendsetter.

I got a close friend who raps.

I'm a real rapper.

I could rap really good on accident. I talk tight and it just sounded... I don't know. It's just such a big genre for me. At the end of the day, rap is the language of the world.

I'm not ever going to stop rapping. I love rap.

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

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

I've always been rapping before I was making money off of it. Before I made a profit, I had always 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.

Nobody wants to hear me rap.

I haven't done rap... I can't do that too well.

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 was rapping at eight.

I love rapping. I do. My styling's similar to Missy Elliott - I think she's so dope. In a weird way, that's how I first learned the American accent: doing American rap songs.

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

I started rapping when I was young, like 12, 11. But I wasn't really talking about nothing and it didn't really get me nowhere.

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.

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.

The rap scene is so unique. Every rapper has to bring their own thing.