Damian Lillard Quotes

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

I listen to a lot of music, and I listen to some rap, and I do like listening to Biggie Smalls.

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

For me, I put Mac Dre right up there with Biggie and 'Pac as legends who have since passed on.

Biggie was to me the guy who was the best at painting the picture and making you visualize something, Pac was the best poet, and I feel like Jay Z is all of the above. Then Rick Ross is just, every line he spits is just perfect, and he's one of my favorite MCs of all time.

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

Biggie and Big Pun were the best storytellers of the '90s. I would get wrapped up in the narrative of what they were talking about.

I like Biggie. Like 'Pac, he was one of the best rappers in the business. Why would I try to do something to him?

When you go back and really listen to the legendary rappers, this is timeless music. Guys like Biggie, guys like Pac, timeless music.

I listened to Tupac and a lot of Biggie Smalls.

I listened to a lot of Jay Z and Nas, stuff like that, so I was always New York-influenced. I think I have that New York flow.

Nas' storytelling was just fire.

I'm better than Tupac and Biggie. I say that so now you know where my head at.

I got no problem with Nas.

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

My favorite rapper of all time is Jadakiss - hands down, no question.

Emceeing has always been about making the most intellectual, most creative, wittiest rhyme as possible regardless of any subject. It was always about bringing the best out of yourself.

I was always into the West Coast rap, the production and the flows were always more appealing to me. I think my rapping days are over though.

The way I rap is very west coast.

Nas is like King Queensbridge: he's the man out there.

I felt like I related to East Coast lyricism a little more. Because I couldn't be super gangsta.

I listen to a lot of Biggie, he's so lyrical.

I grew up listening to a lot of 2Pac and a lot of East Coast, West Coast rap; Bad Boy, Lil Kim, Foxy Brown, Biggie, 2Pac. Super hip-hop, super listening to that raw era of music.

With 'Ready to Die,' that was some of the most honest rhymes of all-time. There's some real dark material on there that Biggie was going through.

I knew I could rap a little bit, which is not the most unique way for being funny. The more I did it, the better I got at rapping, and then I fell in love with the craft of it, and the possibility that I was a good rapper was very intriguing.