Cheryl James Quotes

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'm the best SoundCloud rapper.

I always wrote poems when I was a little girl, and I loved hip hop music, and I kind of just started writing poems over beats, and that's when I started rapping.

I think Ye is important to hip-hop.

I listen to a lot of Biggie, he's so lyrical.

Hip-hop is not all '2 Chainz' - although '2 Chainz' is awesome. How he does that with metaphors, I don't know.

I like anything by 50 Cent and Snoop Dog. I love the way they mouth their way around words.

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.

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.

I knew that it's typical for a black kid to say, 'I'm just going to rap.' I was like, 'I'm going to rap, but I'm going to study, I'm going to figure out what this is and how to put it together.'

It took me a while to like Wu-Tang's style.

Juicy J was always one of my favorites. For one, he was a producer and I just used to love how he came on his verses every time.

'Hood Rich' was super important to Cash Money.

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.

I just want to put my stamp on all kinds of music. Everything I do is going to be gangsta rap, street-based, street-oriented.

I loved writing lyrics for rap when I was in junior high. I loved studying, but somehow I wanted to be a rapper who can write and rap.

No one will ever be able to come against me on the beats.

Kendrick Lamar is not a whack rapper, not at all. Do I think he's a super-mega-lyricist? Not really.

I know I'm going to be the next big hip-hop artist. I just want to save hip-hop... that's my job.

If we want to mumble rap, we can mumble rap.

With rapping, that's just another form of expressing your music. Whether you're going to rap, you're going to sing, it's whatever you want.

Hip hop minus plugged sounds can be a very different experience.

I have very little thoughts on Lil Xan. I think his music is very unique.

The point of '777' is for the world to hear adult Key. Your favorite new rapper's favorite rapper, grown up. My job was to lay any canvas he needed at any given moment.

Lyrically and melodically, Drake was definitely a big influence of mine.