Wale Quotes

A good rapper is an amazing thing to me. It's like a 17th-, 18th-century poet.

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

I still very much appreciate the storytelling of the best rappers.

I think that rap is narrative, when it's done right.

Hip-hop is not all '2 Chainz' - although '2 Chainz' is awesome. How he does that with metaphors, I don't know.

Everything is organic. I got the wordplay, I got the vocabulary to really, really rap.

When I was in fourth grade, I started writing a lot of poetry, and eventually, someone in the church was like, 'You should switch this over to rapping.' I went home and did that - started putting my poems over rap.

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

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

With the super duper flow, I created that one word rhyme style.

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.

I don't have to work on it. I'm naturally a writer. The rapping and writing, they can go hand-in-hand - but rapping is an art that you have to practice and master, so I worked at it for a long time.

I was rapping at eight.

Rap lyrics are really the only thing I've ever written.

I definitely am the best rapper alive, mark my words.

What inspires me about rap is that it's written in an almost poetic way. I just think it's so cool.

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 used to print out lyrics from Nas songs and write my own lyrics in the same syllable count but with different words and different rhymes.

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 you rap, you're using all of yourself.

I'm not just a great white rapper. I'm a great rapper.

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

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.

There's a guy on YouTube named Mac Lethal - he spits hot fire.