Gza Quotes

I first started rapping when I heard the Sugarhill Gang in 1979, when I was 11 years old in seventh grade.

I've never considered myself a rapper. I know how to do it. I know how to make my voice project, and I know how to stay on beat and what have you, but I've never considered myself a rapper.

Even in this podcast media lane, sometimes you still have to wear your MC hat and let people know how you feel about yourself as an MC, which is very confident.

I'm just a Harlem dude that can rap, and people dig my style and persona.

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.

Back in the day, when the D.J. would be playing a record, I'd be on the mic trying to hype up the crowd. So once Public Enemy became a rap group, I decided that that's the role that I wanted to take on. I wanted to be the one that was hyping, because I've always been good at it. I can hype up any crowd.

I came up in hip-hop, where people value the ability to tell it straight.

I mean rappin' to me is easy, it's something you can do over a week.

It would be pretty funny to see a Beverly Hills white girl with mad rap skills.

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

I've been rapping since 1979.

All rappers are princesses like me.

I'm a huge hip hop fan going way back, like, back to '83. I had my Gemini mixer listening to Run-DMC and Kurtis Blow.

Rapping is the only time I'm serious.

I consider music to be storytelling, melody and rhythm. A lot of hip-hop has broken music down. There are no instruments and no songwriting. So you're left with just storytelling and rhythm. And the storytelling can be so braggadocious, you're just left with rhythm.

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'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.

The cats that are doing they thing, you have to search to really find them, to find rappers that can actually rap and speak messages in the music. That's not a good thing at all.

Hip hop has been an integral part of my life and my whole career. I started off doing videos with Ice Cube and Dre and Mary J. Blige and TLC.

Tales of Tacobella' showed that I can rap.

Back in the day, rappers were 'bump bump bump ba bump ba bump.' They was rhyming like that, but I was like, 'bababa bump bump babum ba babump bababa bump.'