Dizzee Rascal Quotes

I was raised listening to, like, Jay and Big and Pac, Cassidy, Ludacris, even some of Drake's stuff.

A lot of people in my generation, we use hip-hop as a tool to compose.

I started producing when I was listening to The Diplomats. The first time I heard Cam'ron was 'Dead or Alive.'

My friends put me on to Mobb Deep when I was a little kid. I've always been a big fan.

Tupac, Biggie, Jay. Your usual suspects. These were the people that was played in my household.

The original version of 'Nuthin' but a 'G' Thang' was made to a Boz Scaggs song; I can't remember the name of the song.

Biggie is my favorite rapper, for sure. No other artist has impacted me that much.

With L.A. it's like, yeah, there's Death Row and whatever. But I always wanted to know what those artists were sampling. It's how I fell in love with music.

I would say Tupac influenced me the most to start rapping, but as far as a female icon that I've looked up to since I was six or seven is definitely Gwen Stefani.

Around the time that I was in high school, a lot of rappers were coming out with mixtapes of them rapping over other people's instrumentals, specifically Young Money.

I love Drake and Future, and I gotta bump some Jay Z for that New York flavour too.

Drake has always been a huge inspiration of mine, and same with Lil Wayne.

Without Mac Miller, there would be no GoldLink.

I always argue with a lot of people. They ask me for my top rappers, and he's always on my list. I mean, the GZA inspired me.

Nas was a huge influence. That's probably my favorite rapper of all time.

Back in the day, rappers were 'bump bump bump ba bump ba bump.' They was rhyming like that, but I was like, 'bababa bump bump babum ba babump bababa bump.'

When I was a kid, my favorite rapper was 50 Cent. He was definitely a big influence on why I wanted to do music.

I was, like, in a rap gang. I loved rap, and it was all around me.

I must say, I've been in the studio with Jay Z, dog... I thought the freestyle thing was a myth. But, bro!

Skateboarding was my introduction to rap and the first rap song that I really liked was KRS-One 'Step Into A World.'

Look at Pusha-T. He makes a certain type of rap music. 'Daytona' is that on the highest level.

I listened to Lil Wayne a lot when I was kid.

Our talent and skill as rappers is clearly the first thing you notice. I don't know what we were thinking. We just really love rap and wanted to be rappers. Is that weird?

'Solja Rag' was designed for Juvenile. It wasn't one of them beats where I was gonna chop it and see who I was going give it to: it was Juvenile all over it.

Everything is organic. I got the wordplay, I got the vocabulary to really, really rap.