Nothing has more words and performance than rap music.
I was trying to be the best rapper in the world. I wasn't thinking about acting.
I don't know how to be a rapper. I just know how to be me.
I'm not an advocate of true rhymes, I don't think. I think that everyone who writes musical theater needs to know how to do true rhymes, because that's the tradition of it, but I do think that in order for the art form to grow, it's important to not let tradition get in the way of innovation.
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.
Rhyme patterns are nothing without meanings to the words. A lot of rappers can do those flows, but the raps aren't really about anything - which is cool sometimes, but to have the flow and the message is one of my favorite things.
The fundamentals of hip-hop still play an important role, cause it's about those similes, those metaphors, those parallels. And to some people it's just about, "Man, I'm really relating to the lifestyle."
I liked Big L's wordplay with the multi-syllable rhymes he hit so clean.
Hip-hop is a perfect mix between poetry and boxing.
Rap - so many words, so little said.
I feel like there's a lot of rappers that could out-rap me and I wouldn't want to face any of them.
I rap for listeners, blunt heads, fly ladies and prisoners
Rhyme to kill, rhyme to murder, rhyme to stomp, Rhyme to ill, rhyme to romp, Rhyme to smack, rhyme to shock, rhyme to roll, Rhyme to destroy anything, toy boy. On the microphone: I'm Poppa Large, big shot on the East Coast.
English poetry begins whenever we decide to say the modern English language begins, and it extends as far as we decide to say that the English language extends.
Rap is like a set-up...a lot of games, A lot of suckers with colorful names. 'I'm so-and-so,' 'I'm this, I'm that.' But they all just wick-wick-wack.
It is not just shameful for a contemporary American poet to use rhymes, it is unthinkable. It seems banal to him; he fears banality worse than anything, and therefore, he uses free verse - though free verse is no guarantee against banality.
I came to the Unites States and realised I had a knack for coming up with rhymes and lyrics.
Somehow the rap game remind me of the crack game
I hate rap music, which to me sounds like a bunch of angry men shouting, possibly because the person who was supposed to provide them with a melody never showed up.
I dribble rhymes like basketball... People call me 'E.T.' What's that, Shaq man? 'Extra Tall.'
Rap music... sounds like somebody feeding a rhyming dictionary to a popcorn popper.
Soap opera rappers, all these niggas sound like 'All My Children'.
I like the whole laid-back rapping. I wish I could rap! I wish I could wrap like Azealia Banks or Lil Wayne or someone like that.
I have some things that I've been workin' on, such as delivery, wordplay, breath control, just a lot of other things that artists work on, that the listener may not be listening for.
