Wyclef Jean Quotes

I write poetry, and I put it to a beat - I mean, that's what they call rap.

Ultimately, I really like to rap, and seeing what I can do to keep it fresh for myself has lent itself to tailoring over time.

Rappers tend to use words sometimes that just rhyme and don't really mean nothing.

First thing you have to understand is that freestyling is much different than making hip-hop music: there's another whole element to being a hip-hop MC.

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

To me, rapping is an art.

I freestyle everything.

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

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.

Hip-hop was my first audience - I would rap in the mirror, walk down the street and listen to my Walkman.

I've always loved rhyming. I love language.

This is hip-hop. If you've got something you want to rap about, just rap about it, man.

I've been known to drop a spoken-word bit into a song from time to time. But not straight-up rap. I don't know that I have that gift.

When I first spit my first rhyme in public on my school bus, I had an audience.

I could rap really good on accident. I talk tight and it just sounded... I don't know. It's just such a big genre for me. At the end of the day, rap is the language of the world.

I just do hip-hop because I love to do it.

My own rapping skills are quite good, actually. You get this thing, I think it's called Songify or AutoRap, and you talk into them, and they auto-tune it and make it into a quite interesting musical number. And I got one where it builds it into a rap.

Lyricists play with words.

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

A poet is, before anything else, a person who is passionately in love with language.

A lot of the hip hop artists don't write music. They write words.

I don't think rap really fits in to 'American Idol' in the sense that I believe rap is an art form in itself more akin to poetry, more akin to drama, if you will.

I've been thinking of trying my hand at rap. I've been recording snippets on my BlackBerry.

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.

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