Rap Battles Quotes

Hip-hop is really standoffish. It's really competitive and it's really about who's number one all the time. Sometimes it gets out of hand.

I started rapping when I was about 12 or 13, just playing around with it.

I'm really like a rat in the rap game. I just drop stuff when I feel like it.

I always wrote poems when I was a little girl, and I loved hip hop music, and I kind of just started writing poems over beats, and that's when I started rapping.

When I was a kid, hip-hop had that effect on me, it was escape and it showed me a different way of life.

Аfter all the beats and rhymes, I felt like everybody around me was rapping and so I was like.

I first started rapping when I heard the Sugarhill Gang in 1979, when I was 11 years old in seventh grade.

I started freestyling with friends about eight or nine years ago. I started writing also around the same time, but didn't meet blockhead until about '94. I started making beats not until about '96.

Nothing has more words and performance than rap music.

When I started listening to rap music, I loved the fact that there were stories being told in 16 bars.

I look at old performers like James Brown: back in the day when you actually had to work hard to get poppin'. I look at all those types of performers. Even like Kid n' Play and the Fresh Prince and Jazzy Jeff and Salt-N-Pepa. That era where they had to perform. You couldn't just rap. It had to be an entire performance.

Ultimately, I really like to rap, and seeing what I can do to keep it fresh for myself has lent itself to tailoring over time.

The great thing about Eminem is, he's just hysterical. You forget, people like Eminem because he is riotously funny. And he's a great actor.

The only time I ever really got into rap was back in the early '90s, and bands like A Tribe Called Quest, De La Soul, Gang Starr. Musically, they were really interesting. But when hip-hop acts start sampling Sting or Phil Collins, then I just don't get it at all.

Rapping was something I always wanted to do, so after school, my friends and I would catch the bus to my house and just sit there writing songs, every day.

Gangsta rap was the most important movement since the beginning of rock n' roll.

I never was a person that said, 'I'm gonna be a rapper.' I thought I would be a doctor. I just knew how to rap, and it was a cool thing to do, so I started doing it for fun.

Hip-hop is an instant gratification, winners and losers circle, and often those who are losing give up after three or four, five years.

Hip-hop is more than music, it's a culture. It's bigger than hit songs.

I was real serious when it came to rapping. I still do, but even more so when I was real young.

I was trying to be the best rapper in the world. I wasn't thinking about acting.

Well before I was rapping. I was just a regular kid in school. I just liked to chill my friends and play games and stuff like that. One day at school my friends were freestyling at the lunch table and thats where it all started.

I can't stand rap....people who can't sing do rap....you can sing rebellion as well as talk it....Hitler would have been in a rap band.

When I was 16, I was rapping just to rap.