Mike Will Made It Quotes

Tupac was real and honest about every question I asked.

I believe that my work has been well-received because it is authentic. All people really want are authenticity and truth.

I think Ye is important to hip-hop.

I'm a big believer in playing truth and not doing things for effect. It's not about whether you look pretty or glamorous. It's about whether people connect.

OK, so truth hurts - but what else does truth do?

Songwriters tell the truth.

When humor works, it works because it's clarifying what people already feel. It has to come from someplace real.

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

Although rap is about boasting, it's also about honesty and expressing your emotions.

I came up in hip-hop, where people value the ability to tell it straight.

Lyrics are kind of the whole thing; it's the message. Something might have a beautiful melody but if it's not the truth coming out of your mouth, it's not appealing.

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.

Look at music: I've always loved hiphop and rap, and now there's this whole progressive movement, with De La Soul and Mos Def, Common. It's some of the best stuff around.

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

People's passion and desire for authenticity is strong.

Day to day and doing the work and getting to that honest point - that, for me, is always about - and always will be as long as I do this - refining and refining and refining and refining the truth... constantly being as truthful and honest and raw and real as you can be.

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.

One thing about America is Americans are real people. So it's like, if they see that you're real, this is real, then they're gonna relate to it.

We gotta keep our sound alive, that dark hip-hop.

I always wanted to operate at the highest altitude, just in terms of hip-hop and the music.

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

I'm the best SoundCloud rapper.

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

People so obsessed with being real in hip-hop because they don't want people to think that they're lying.

With 'HUMBLE.,' I knew that beat was going to capture a moment. It just felt real urgent.