Freestyle Rapping Quotes

Nothing has more words and performance than rap music.

I don't know how to be a rapper. I just know how to be me.

Originally, nobody knew John Cena rapped. It was just something he did in the car. I told Bruce Prichard, and that's how the whole 'Thugonomics' run began.

So with the freestyles, I just do it for fun. If I hear something that I like, I'm rapping on it.

You can never be too old for hip-hop.

I was just rapping as a pastime and I became good at it. So much so that by the time my Def Jam contract was in front of me, I didn't have a rap name.

I was part of a group called Casanova Fly, doing bouncer work, attending college and working in a pizza shop when I first met producer Sylvia Robinson who came into the pizza shop where I was flipping the dough. I was rapping in the park in Englewood, and she heard about what I was doing.

Rap is just to me very annoying.

I just sing over hip-hop beats, you know. That's what I've been doing. That's what I started in '09 in my dorm room.

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

I used to make demo tapes with cats that rocked with Russell Simmons and people like that. The history goes so far back; I've always been really focused on writing dope rhymes.

As long as I'm around the cats in the hip hop scene, they'll throw me a track and I'll write a rap over it.

I guess I did go through my phase where I wanted to be a rapper. I made music, but I was never really good at it.

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

I will say, I can definitely throw down a sick beat once in a while and provide an amazing backup track for somebody who can really, actually freestyle.

When I first started rapping, I was like, 'I'm gonna be, like, the female Eminem.'

I'm a total hip-hop geek. That's my favorite kind of music to listen to while getting ready.

I will definitely drop bars, but that's, like, a few minutes of my show. I do a part of my set where I do that, and then I'll get back to the jokes. All the older people will look like, 'What the hell is happening?' The younger people are cheering, and the older people are like, 'I'm scared. I don't know what's going on.'

It's natural. I freestyle, meaning that I just rap. I might put words on paper, but I just put a beat on my rap, and go off the top of my head. It's something I've been able to do for a long time.

A lot of our earlier material was freestyle tunes.

I know about hip-hop culture, whether it's graffiti writing or DJ-ing or being an MC.

I was MCing in the playground, spitting lyrics over mobile phones - Sony Ericsson, Walkmans, W810s, the Teardrop Nokia phones, all of that. Vital equipment! I never even had a DJ set where a DJ's playing vinyl, and I'm spitting.

Some songs I rap before the beat even play and I enjoy doing that. I like walking the beat down.

I used to record but just in my own studio or in my friend's back when I toyed with the idea of being a rapper.