DaBaby Quotes

I feel like I changed hip-hop.

I like the way hip-hop is now. It's grown up enough so that it can get involved with politics if it feels like it.

Swag defines an artist, period. Lil Wayne has his super-tattooed pierces and dreads swag. Jay-Z has his New York, grown man, Beyonce and 40/40 Club swag.

My flow follows sometimes what's going on in the hip-hop industry even though I'm speaking Jamaican patois.

I also tried to avoid doing obvious dance records.

That's what my music... I'm working on a solo record right now, it's gonna be more hip-hop than anything, like electronic hip-hop, futuristic hip-hop. I'm probably gonna be rapping on it.

Waka Flocka Flame, some of his lyrics are, like, common sentences. But just the way he is, and the way he delivers it, makes it this crazy metal hip-hop.

You don't really gotta rap no more; you can just say the verse with a swag now.

A lot of the vocal music I've been doing recently has been quite clubby. But that's mainly because I've had more time to go to clubs, and that normally breeds that kind of influence.

I don't think I represent all things dubstep. I just like clubbing, so those are the sounds I've chosen to work with.

I can always tell if a band has a British rhythm section due to the gritty production.

It was important for the first piece of original music that I release to have a timeless feel because that's the type of music I want to make.

I'd love to do something with Bruno Mars because I love his voice and the playful and intelligent way he delivers a song.

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.

One of the secrets is, for us, we pick our demographic. If other demographics want to like it, then by all means. But essentially, we're making music for the party, for the club.

'Bitter Sweet Symphony' is one of the biggest hip-hop records of all time once you actually analyse it.

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

There's no other rapper that will drop a better album than me. No one.

I'm fascinated with the regionality of rap music.

I love mixing house and disco with anything bass.

There's a heavy hip-hop influence in my music, some trap influence, but it's always lyrical.

I hate rap music, which to me sounds like a bunch of angry men shouting, possibly because the person who was supposed to provide them with a melody never showed up.

Rap is the new rock 'n' roll. We the real rock stars, and I'm the biggest of all of them. I'm the No. 1 rock star on the planet.

Just because I don't sing about the normal country themes doesn't mean my songs aren't country. I'd rather sing about having fun.