Trick Daddy Quotes

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

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.

When I rap, I get to express myself in a way where putting words together is like poetry, and sometimes it's better to talk in certain expressions than sing, you know? So I love, I love to rhyme when I want to express certain things.

To me, rapping is an art.

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

Biggie and Big Pun were the best storytellers of the '90s. I would get wrapped up in the narrative of what they were talking about.

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

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

You know how a person is made for something? Eminem is made for hip-hop. The best rapper is a white man.

First thing you have to understand is that freestyling is much different than making hip-hop music: there's another whole element to being a hip-hop MC.

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

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

No shade, and shout out to Lil Pump, but on a track like 'Gucci Gang,' he's not really saying much.

I got a close friend who raps.

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

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

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

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

I don't think rap really fits in to 'American Idol' in the sense that I believe rap is an art form in itself more akin to poetry, more akin to drama, if you will.

I started rapping when I was about 12 or 13, just playing around with it.

I remember rap music. We used to party and dance off of it. Today it's all about a whole different angle... Rappers are going against each other, and it's more of a bragging, boasting thing.

Rhyme patterns are nothing without meanings to the words. A lot of rappers can do those flows, but the raps aren't really about anything - which is cool sometimes, but to have the flow and the message is one of my favorite things.

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.

My first songs were energetic because I liked their energy. When I used to battle people every day, I had to go hard. If someone went harder than me, they left with the win. I haven't lost since I was 12 years old.

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.