Freestyle Rhyming Quotes

Hip-hop is when you have crowd participation; when you chant at the audience and they chant back at you; when you wave your hands in the air like you just don't care; or some breakdancing. Everything today is just low-beat, real bass-y, bass-y, good rap records.

That's the reason why I'm making albums. That's the reason why I love hip-hop: It's a challenge every time.

When you do rap albums, you got to train yourself. You got to constantly be in character.

When I was younger, I was addicted to the idea of becoming a rapper.

The first rhymes I wrote, I was 9. It was Kool Moe Dee-style.

Rap, to me, is communal. It's something you do with your friends. So becoming a member of a group was the dream.

I like hip-hop music.

I started off as a rapper from Thunder Bay, Ontario, believe it or not. There was a little group of 10 or 12 of us that would get together and copy each other's cassettes. So I was a rapper first, and it was that music that got me into this great entertainment world and got me out of Thunder Bay.

I was probably like 13 years old, 14. And I used to walk home doing the beatbox from school. That's how I created it. There was no walkmans back then, no iPods, no CDs. There was just me. Back then there was the boom box.

As I was sitting there, the deejay was playing music and talking over the music, and the kids were going crazy. All of a sudden, something said to me, 'Put something like that on a record, and it will be the biggest thing.' I didn't even know you called it rap.

Hip hop's all about expression. That's why I got into it.

It's mad to think I was just a kid from south London, rapping in parks with friends.

I think hip-hop is really fun right now... and that's why people are using dance beats and singing more.

My definition of hip hop is taking elements from many other spheres of music to make hip hop. Whether it be breakbeat, whether it be the groove and grunt of James Brown or the pickle-pop sounds of Kraftwerk or Yellow Magic Orchestra, hip hop is also part of what they call hip-house now, or trip hop, or even parts of drum n' bass.

I started with me as Awkwafina reciting 'Othello' monologues, and I'd send those to my friends. It started like that, and then it went into more music-y stuff.