Curtis Jackson Quotes

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.

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

Rappers tend to use words sometimes that just rhyme and don't really mean nothing.

I am a hip-hop artist, as you probably know. My hip-hop name is Big Smalls.

Being a student of hip-hop in general, you take technical aspects from places. You may take a rhyme pattern or flow from Big Daddy Kane or Kool G Rap.

I'm not really a rapper!

I've been known to drop a spoken-word bit into a song from time to time. But not straight-up rap. I don't know that I have that gift.

Anyone can rap if you've got brains. So I just went with it.

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

If we want to mumble rap, we can mumble rap.

I really like hip-hop and rap; that's my main influence. I really wanna be more of a hip-hop artist.

I like lyrical rappers and turn up rappers.

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 got a close friend who raps.

I've been a fan of Bunji's freestyling since the first time I saw him perform, back in the early 2000s.

Of course, if you're gonna make a rap song, you're gonna want to sound like Melle Mel.

My own rapping skills are quite good, actually. You get this thing, I think it's called Songify or AutoRap, and you talk into them, and they auto-tune it and make it into a quite interesting musical number. And I got one where it builds it into a rap.

What sets 'Some Nights' apart from anything we've ever done is the hip-hop influence. Not so much the actual sound of hip-hop, but more the vibrato and the artistry that comes with it. Right now, the artists that seem to be pushing to be the greatest artists and are trying to change the world are hip-hop artists.

A lot of the younger kids now can rap, but they're scared of the crowd. Mastery of that stage is an MC. I don't know if you've seen any great MCs on stage but when you do it's like wow, this is more than the words to rhymes.

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.

I've been rapping since 1979.

All rappers are princesses like me.

Rap is hardcore street music but there are women out there who can hang with the best male rappers. What holds us back is that girls tend to rap in these high, squeaky voices. It's irritating. You've gotta rap from the diaphragm.

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.