Astro Quotes

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.

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

I think if you pick up a microphone and you rap, you're a rapper.

I was real serious when it came to rapping. I still do, but even more so when I was real young.

I like smart rappers who aren't necessarily trying to be deeper than you, like Danny Brown.

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

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

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

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.

All rappers are princesses like me.

You don't have to be a good singer any more if you can rap well.

Rapping is the only time I'm serious.

Rap is only one end of a whole spectrum of verbal play and virtuosity. Rap is geared for aural pleasure.

I was rapping at eight.

When you're looking for good lyrics, you turn to Kendrick Lamar, you turn to J Cole, you turn to Wale, you turn to Chance the Rapper, you turn to Rapsody. You don't turn to Post Malone.

Big Sean is one of the dopest rappers, of my lifetime for sure. Like, Big Sean is one of the best rappers. Period.

Nas' storytelling was just fire.

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

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

I wanted to explain that just because I'm rapping in this funny way doesn't mean that I'm not worthy of actually being evaluated as a rapper.

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

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 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.