Waka Flocka Flame, some of his lyrics are, like, common sentences. But just the way he is, and the way he delivers it, makes it this crazy metal hip-hop.
'Bling Bling' was originally a Big Tymers song.
When people say to me 'what do you think of rap music?' my answer is there's no such thing. There's rap and there's music.
I did rap when I was a teenager - started rapping when I was nine, and started singing when I was 20. I kinda sing like a rapper would sing.
When I was 16, I was rapping just to rap.
I've never been a rap guy, I don't really know that much about rap music, to be honest. I like it, but I think what really happened was just my music seems to work so well with rap music.
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 people say to me, 'What do you think of rap music?', my answer is, 'There's no such thing. There's rap, and there's music.'
With Rage, we wrote riff rock and had rap vocals, so we didn't really concern ourselves with melody for the most part.
I don't really listen to rap; I just like to rap.
There's been people who've rapped and produced - like Kanye - but I don't feel like on the rapping side there's ever been a producer who can rap as good as I think I can rap.
I listen to my early Gang Starr interviews, I'm like, damn I was really trying to sound like a New Yorker then.
You know, Tupac would go into the studio and make like six or seven songs in one day. That's how he operated. He was real quick with his pen.
If we want to mumble rap, we can mumble rap.
Back in the day, rappers were 'bump bump bump ba bump ba bump.' They was rhyming like that, but I was like, 'bababa bump bump babum ba babump bababa bump.'
You don't really gotta rap no more; you can just say the verse with a swag now.
I started by producing, and the rapping came second to that, because I wanted to fill out the beat.
When I first used Auto-Tune, I never used it to sing. I wasn't using it the way T-Pain was. I used it to rap because it makes my voice sound grittier.
I started rapping when I was 18-19.
I'm kind of like a rapper trapped in a singer's body.
A lot people don't know that Mannie Fresh is one of my favorite producers because I used to just be fascinated with how he would be producing stuff. He'd be silly, too, when he raps.
I was always into the West Coast rap, the production and the flows were always more appealing to me. I think my rapping days are over though.
I will say this: Rapping-wise, there has never been anybody to match Tupac's energy when coming on a song, like when rappin'. It's unmatched. You can't duplicate it.
Bounce is a primarily call-and-response style of hip-hop over a 'Trigger Man' beat. It's a New Orleans-created hip-hop style that developed in the late '80s, early '90s.
A lot of rap songs don't usually have a lot of melody per se.
