Daryl Hall Quotes

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

The first album was 99 percent hard core to show you I was the best rhymer in the world.

Nobody wants to hear me rap.

All rappers are princesses like me.

I started rapping since, like, 14. But I've been obsessed with rap from when I was 11. I heard 'Baby Don't Cry,' I'll never forget.

Rap is only one end of a whole spectrum of verbal play and virtuosity. Rap is geared for aural pleasure.

I was rapping at eight.

I really want to learn how to rap. I know it sounds utterly ridiculous!

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

A friend of mine encouraged me to try rapping, so I started experimenting with it, writing verses, seeing if I could fit an extra word or syllable into each line without tripping myself up.

When I was growing up, to be an emcee meant to write the most clever, intellectual, and wittiest rap. And that's what we did.

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.

I could rap really good on accident. I talk tight and it just sounded... I don't know. It's just such a big genre for me. At the end of the day, rap is the language of the world.

I never knew anything about rapping.

To me, rapping is an art.

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

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

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.

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

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

I have to be able to rap. I don't have the look. I don't have the typical slim-dude, fancy-clothes look. That's not me. I have to be able to rap - there is no other choice, or else I get eaten alive.

I've been trying to nail it into everyone's heads that I feel like I am the most versatile rapper.

I've been rapping since 1979.

I'm serious; I don't, I don't rap. I flow; I'm a flow-er. You've got rappers, you got MCs, and then you got flow-ers, I'm a flow-er.

I'm not completely at ease at rapping, I can't do it well yet.