Soulja Boy Quotes

Nothing has more words and performance than rap music.

I'm a B-boy at heart. I still like rhyming. It's just the radio game is like Chinese arithmetic. It's hard to know what nuts to crack. But I still love music, been dropping music. Never stopped, really.

Hip-hop is bigger than the South; hip-hop is bigger than New York.

Hip-hop is all over the planet.

Hip-hop is a cultural expression - it's embracing.

When break dancing was out, I break danced. When rapping was the thing, I freestyled rap on the street and battled and all that kind of stuff.

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

Hip-hop is too young to put a definition on it.

Rapping was something I always wanted to do, so after school, my friends and I would catch the bus to my house and just sit there writing songs, every day.

I was 17 when I first started rapping and 18 before I started taking it seriously - when I really knew I could rap and have fans and be a trendsetter.

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.

Rap, to me, is communal. It's something you do with your friends. So becoming a member of a group was the dream.

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

I ain't never did no sports. I just always wanted to rap.

I learned to MC over drum 'n' bass music.

New York hip-hop inspired me a lot.

I got into rap because I can't sing. If I could sing, I'd be a singer.

When I first knew that I wanted to rap I was seven years old and I lost the talent show. It was like spoken word or something. My mom made me do it. It was a Langston Hughes poem. The girl that came on after me, she wound up winning. She was a singer.

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 first started rapping when I heard the Sugarhill Gang in 1979, when I was 11 years old in seventh grade.

When I was 16, I was rapping just to rap.

My school had a radio show, and when I first decided to become a rapper, I was on there, and I would, like, freestyle.

Hip-hop is more than music, it's a culture. It's bigger than hit songs.

I grew up in the Bronx. I'm into rap music.