J Dilla Quotes

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

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

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.

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

A lot of the younger kids now can rap, but they're scared of the crowd. Mastery of that stage is an MC. I don't know if you've seen any great MCs on stage but when you do it's like wow, this is more than the words to rhymes.

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

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.

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

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.

Rap - it's a childhood passion. Writing rhymes, it's something that I was doing before rap records even existed. And I will continue to write until I can't write anymore.

I'm living proof that there's no age limit to rapping.

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 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.

To me, rapping is an art.

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

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

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

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.

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.'

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.

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