Cupcakke Quotes

If you're really a rapper, you can't stop rapping.

Not everybody is a great rapper; not everybody lives for the art of lyricism.

I think that rap is narrative, when it's done right.

Rap - it's a childhood passion. Writing rhymes, it's something that I was doing before rap records even existed. And I will continue to write until I can't write anymore.

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

I mean, when it's time to rhyme rhyme, I can get down for mine.

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

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.

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

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

Rapping for me is more about being entertaining and giving something back to the fans. I want people to say, 'There goes Pooch holding his own with Consequence, Rick Ross, and Drake.'

The first album was 99 percent hard core to show you I was the best rhymer in the world.

You don't have to be a good singer any more if you can rap well.

Rap is only one end of a whole spectrum of verbal play and virtuosity. Rap is geared for aural pleasure.

I was rapping at eight.

Hip-hop is getting to the point now where they are going to start sounding like Al Jarreau or Bobby McFerrin or some of the other poets. Some of the better rappers can rap real fast without even melodies. It'll get to that same point.

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 feel like with a lot of Madlib's beats, they are made for storytelling. I feel like when I'm working on stuff with him, I can really get into the storytelling aspect mode of my flow.

Nas' storytelling was just fire.

I definitely am the best rapper alive, mark my words.

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

What inspires me about rap is that it's written in an almost poetic way. I just think it's so cool.

A friend of mine encouraged me to try rapping, so I started experimenting with it, writing verses, seeing if I could fit an extra word or syllable into each line without tripping myself up.

When I was growing up, to be an emcee meant to write the most clever, intellectual, and wittiest rap. And that's what we did.

I used to print out lyrics from Nas songs and write my own lyrics in the same syllable count but with different words and different rhymes.