Stephen Malkmus Quotes

Not anyone can rap to my beats.

To me, rapping is an art.

I love rap, and I try to write a bit like a rapper, to have a flow.

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

I mean, when it's time to rhyme rhyme, I can get down for mine.

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

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 was rapping at eight.

I'm not very good with rap and things like that.

Pac get busy. People can't take nothing from him. On the lyrics, he get busy, straight up.

As far as rapping goes, as long as you are telling the truth and you have a good flow, then you win.

I had written rap songs in the early '90s and even did a couple homemade rap songs with my brother in like '88 or '89, but it was just like... I don't even know how to say it. Just plain rap. I was just rapping about whatever, there was no real style or direction, it was just semi-braggadocious rhymes that probably imitated 100 other rappers.

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.

When I was a kid, I was just rapping about school and stuff like that.

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

I still to this day get the most inspiration from rap lyrics.

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.

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

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

This is hip-hop. If you've got something you want to rap about, just rap about it, man.