Daveed Diggs Quotes

I had written rap songs in the early '90s and even did a couple homemade rap songs with my brother in like '88 or '89, but it was just like... I don't even know how to say it. Just plain rap. I was just rapping about whatever, there was no real style or direction, it was just semi-braggadocious rhymes that probably imitated 100 other rappers.

When I did rap and rhyme, it wasn't just a word that rhymed with another one.

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

The best rappers I know are, like, air-conditioner men.

I'm not very good with rap and things like that.

I just love working with Eminem. He's just one of my favorite rappers, and his lyrics - he's a true poet, and I enjoy that about him.

As far as rapping goes, as long as you are telling the truth and you have a good flow, then you win.

Everybody was always telling me to rap and freestyle. I used to go to the park and spit on the mic. If I go to the park, they always gonna give me the mic.

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

I was just trying to fit into a certain spectrum. Just like, basic rap.

I'ma sound like all your favorite rappers.

I think everybody has their own inner rap spirit animal.

I love rap lyrics, I love hearing people rap, I love molding a thought or idea into the shape that fits on a rap beat.

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

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

I'm into the lyrical side of rap. I listen to some old Eminem songs and think, 'Wow, he's a genius.' He's one of the greatest poets of our time. Even when he's out of control, like on 'Cold Wind Blows,' it's incredible.

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.

It's bad poetry executed by people that can't sing. That's my definition of Rap.

I'm pretty sure people thought I was like a dope rapper.

I guess I am a rapper. It's weird to be called that, or tell someone that's your profession.

Nobody wants to hear me rap.

All rappers are princesses like me.

I started rapping since, like, 14. But I've been obsessed with rap from when I was 11. I heard 'Baby Don't Cry,' I'll never forget.

I am obsessed with rap music - it's such a big part of my life.

I'm not really a rapper!