You could take away the singing, and I am fine. But don't take away my gift of writing. It is the best way I can relate and express what I am feeling and what I am going through.
Music lives in me. Life is a song to me. I have the gift of rhyme, and I'm always trying to write and rhyme. Music is just natural everyday occurrence with me.
From the outside-in, Atlanta is kind of perceived as like popcorn. People don't respect it as having artists such as myself and EarthGang and other lyrical talents and album-worthy artists.
We all knew how talented K.Dot is. We knew how dope he was lyrically.
I've always been in love with Howard McGillen's voice, ever since I got wind of him.
Hunter can write a melody and stuff like that, but his forte is lyrics. He can write a serviceable melody to hang his lyrics on, and sometimes he comes up with something really nice.
I always knew I could rap, and in a sense I always rapped. And I've always behaved like a rapper. But I started to take it seriously when I recorded with the people of Brick when I started to receive some money.
I definitely have a gift for language that is rhythmic and attractive to the ear, and I have interesting [verbal] imagery which I guess is a poetic touch.
I'm lyrically driven, I'm not musically driven.
I never really told anybody that I'm a rapper. I wasn't walking around being like, "Yo, check out my mixtape!" It was more of a secret grind.
I may not be as lyrically adept as Jay-Z and Morrissey, but at least I can sing what I feel.
Since I was a kid, I'd wake up every morning hearing a voice say, 'You're the greatest rapper ever.' I'm trying to prove that voice right.
I think the biggest thing, for me, was just to be recognized as a songwriter.
Our poets are men of talents who sing, and not the children of music.
People often talk about me as a singer, but they don't often talk about you when you're a woman as a songwriter.
With my gift, I can pretty much write a song out of anything.
