Manika Quotes

I like Jay-Z. I love Luda. I love Ledisi. I like Beyonce, of course. I think she's just brilliant. She's a triple threat. But my favorite - my all-time rapper is Tupac. See, I could have been Tupac's girlfriend.

I know all the words to 'I'm on a Boat.'

I rap on 'Front Porch Junkies' and 'Whatcha Got in that Cup.' I try to channel my inner Lil Wayne and Drake. It's fun to be able to freestyle over a country melody and say country words over a rap song.

'iRun' is just a fun turn-up song, me and Yachty.

My game is like a cross between karaoke and rap: crap.

This is the industry that wants [music], the rap industry.

I don't like rap music at all. I don't think it's music. It's just a beat and rapping.

You don't want me to sing. I could do a really bad karaoke scene, if I had to, but I'd probably choose to rap.

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 listen to a lot of music, and I listen to some rap, and I do like listening to Biggie Smalls.

I'm really a singer, so I love songs and I love singing. I like rap music, but I didn't grow up freestyling.

I'm a tremendous believer and supporter in hip-hop and rap.

Back in the day, if someone said that hip hop and rap was a fad, that was a joke to me because they just didn't know what they were talking about. In reality, there were so many people who didn't know what they were talking about it.

My character is meant to know nothing about rap, and not to like it very much, but I know about it, because my kids make me listen to it. There's some rap I do like very much. I like Eminem, Blackalicious.

That's something - you laugh about Eminem... It's funny, man, because I didn't like him when he first came out, ya know. It seemed like a big joke. But I think the guy's for real, and I like his lyrics!

The beats are like scripts, and the raps are my monologue.

I think hip-hop does a very good job of infusing comedy and humor and wit into music, a lot more than other genres.

I love listening to Lil' Wayne, Drake, and Eminem to get me fired up!

I would say I started rapping because my friends were doin' it.

I have so many playlists full of Rihanna, Nicki Minaj, Lil Wayne, Chris Brown.

I just love working with Eminem. He's just one of my favorite rappers, and his lyrics - he's a true poet, and I enjoy that about him.

I was doing jokey rap stuff in high school. But it was never serious. It was always, like, 'It'd be cool to do this as a form of comedy.'

Even 'The Inevitability of Death' is kind of a funny song more than anything. I mean, I thought it would be funny imagining radio deejays cueing it up and announcing it as people are driving off to work.

You might remember me from Eminem's rap lyrics.

Drake makes some dope songs.