Alessia Cara Quotes

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

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

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

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.

The first rap CD that I had, it was so different for me. The energy, the wordplay, all that caught my attention, and I liked it.

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

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.

I still very much appreciate the storytelling of the best rappers.

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

Being a student of hip-hop in general, you take technical aspects from places. You may take a rhyme pattern or flow from Big Daddy Kane or Kool G Rap.

Big Rube was on my first album and some of my mixtapes. His words are so powerful. I want to speak every word he says into existence. I wanna be a part of that! I wanna be a part of greatness. His wordplay is great to me.

I don't sing melodically. Rhyme pattern is how I sing. I also write like a lyricist or an MC because that's what I was before I was a singer. I just took those elements and put them into music.

Usually, when I'm rappin', I'm creating a big story or a concept song that sounds like a movie to me.

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

I listen a lot to rap, and I'm inspired to take it, to use it in another way, to get the message across.

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

A good rapper is an amazing thing to me. It's like a 17th-, 18th-century poet.

When you get my 'Supreme Clientele,' it is straight bars.

Ever since I was a kid I've been rapping.

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

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

With the super duper flow, I created that one word rhyme style.

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

Rap is poetry set to music. But to me it's like a jackhammer.

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