Lil Uzi Vert Quotes

I don't rap like nobody, I don't try to sound like nobody.

I'm not more or less conscious than any other rapper out there.

When I rap, it's just an extension of how I speak, and that's how I talk. If you don't like it, don't listen.

I couldn't possibly have lived all the things that Ice-T on the records lived.

Everyone has a little niche in rap, and I just wanted to carve a piece out of it for myself.

In 7th grade, I believe, I wrote my first rap song. It was about everything I was seeing, everything that was going on around me.

I've been rapping on some crunk beats and getting down on the South music for years. I feel like I can do it all.

For me, I'm not trying to be the flavor for everybody. But I'm just proud when people I respect or people that I want to be my fans are my fans.

I love rap, and part of hip-hop culture is being excessive and absurd, and I can't be excessive and absurd without sounding corny. So I have to do it in a very truthful, weird way.

We'll never change the fact that we are hardcore hip-hop and we make rebellious hip-hop music, and we're going to keep doing that and progress with our production, progress with our lyrical styles, be creative, and just have fun with it.

I am used to making people upset and uncomfortable with my lyrical content when it comes to music.

I just don't see myself as a songwriter or a country singer or any of those things anymore. It's more trying to express ideas and emotional textures.

I'm definitely one of them artists that loves putting the track on and having fun with it, but in my own way.

Hip hop's all about expression. That's why I got into it.

What I see, what I went through, what a friend of mine may have went through, whatever - I rap about it.

We were very deliberately not playing 12-bar structures, blues structures, which rock musicians turned into such a cliche. We tried to... listen to the rhythms within ourselves and take the normal words we used every day in our normal thoughts, which girls hadn't written about before.

I can't describe my sound. That's something I don't ever think about and I kinda don't want to think about it.

It's a bit cheeky as a rapper to make a singing album.

I'm happy that I don't have to do covers anymore, because that's not what I do.

I never have a clear goal or a theme when it comes to writing an album.

Big shout out to Nas: if you want to scream my name out again and put my name in your rhyme, I think it's funny. Let's make some money from it. Just don't take it so serious, man.

People don't really compare me to anybody. They just say I'm a mumble rapper. I'm fine with that. I don't really care.

The way I rap is very west coast.

Because I didn't think anyone would actually listen to my music, I thought I could say whatever I wanted.

We didn't want to change who we are. We're not going to sit there and go, 'Let's be a rap band now.'