Queen Latifah Quotes

I freestyled the hook to 'Target.' I got into cadence and then it sparked the idea.

Oh man, I think Damian Lillard makes good music. He has bars.

There are thousands of Eminems. Just listen to a song. There are thousands of them. It's just that he had the talent. It's like someone with a talent to hit a baseball. He had the talent to write lyrics.

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.

I'm really big into lyrics in my own songs, so I look up to Drake in that aspect.

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.

I want to be one of the most versatile rappers in the game.

That's something I can never lose: my love for the art of rap. As I grew older and became more interested in song writing, it just pushed my possibilities further. I always have to have a foot firmly on the floor as a rapper, because that's how I started.

The greatest MCs came out of groups; the greatest singers came out of groups. So you can't tell us we're not MCs.

I'm not the best rapper; I'm not trying to be the best rapper.

I've always been jealous of rappers, because they can fit so many words into a song and tell a story with lots of details. But when you're a songwriter, you have to fit the words to the melody and you can't fit as much in. I'm just a big fan of storytelling.

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.

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.

I'm a singer and a writer first. I started to rap by accident, being playful.

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

Being a student of hip-hop in general, you take technical aspects from places. You may take a rhyme pattern or flow from Big Daddy Kane or Kool G Rap.

If I could rap, that would be a sensation, but I can't, you see, I'm just a Caucasian.

I've been trying to nail it into everyone's heads that I feel like I am the most versatile rapper.

I was never just a 'fill in 16 bars on a beat' rapper. I was making real songs from the jump.

All rappers are princesses like me.

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

I listen a lot to rap, and I'm inspired to take it, to use it in another way, to get the message across.

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'm the top rapper in the world.

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.