Charlamagne tha God Quotes

I don't want people to confuse me as an MC that talk about nothing.

I like smart rappers who aren't necessarily trying to be deeper than you, like Danny Brown.

But I've been freestyling and messing around with rhyming since I was 13. That's when I really started listening to hip-hop music.

I still very much appreciate the storytelling of the best rappers.

I think that rap is narrative, when it's done right.

Big Rube was on my first album and some of my mixtapes. His words are so powerful. I want to speak every word he says into existence. I wanna be a part of that! I wanna be a part of greatness. His wordplay is great to me.

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

Hip-hop is not all '2 Chainz' - although '2 Chainz' is awesome. How he does that with metaphors, I don't know.

I still wanna rap better than everybody else, and I wanna say important things.

The MC that we love are usually the ones that we consider be kinda heartless, like 50 Cent. That's pretty much the prowess and power of an MC. That's what sells.

I feel like with a lot of Madlib's beats, they are made for storytelling. I feel like when I'm working on stuff with him, I can really get into the storytelling aspect mode of my flow.

The cats that are doing they thing, you have to search to really find them, to find rappers that can actually rap and speak messages in the music. That's not a good thing at all.

Nas' storytelling was just fire.

Nas is truly one of the greatest lyricists to ever come out of Queens, which has produced more great MCs than any other borough. He's one of the greatest MCs of my lifetime and in the world. He's also a friend.

I guess I only work with versatile rappers, chameleons like Guilty Simpson, J Dilla, and Doom.

Lil Wayne, that was one of my main influences, music-wise, because of his wordplay and metaphors.

Biggie was to me the guy who was the best at painting the picture and making you visualize something, Pac was the best poet, and I feel like Jay Z is all of the above. Then Rick Ross is just, every line he spits is just perfect, and he's one of my favorite MCs of all time.

When you get my 'Supreme Clientele,' it is straight bars.

My thoughts on Eminem have always been that he is one of the greatest lyricists ever. I've never been a fan because I can't relate to a lot of his world views and experiences, but I acknowledge that he's one of the greatest MCs.

When I started writing poetry, it was always in very hip-hop influenced spaces: Someone would teach a Nas song side-by-side with a Gwendolyn Brooks poem, and we'd talk about the connections between those things.

My favorite artist was probably Jay-Z. He's the one who inspired me to start writing music. He's a wordsmith. He's very clever. He uses a lot of similes and metaphors. He's a beast of a rapper.

I still to this day get the most inspiration from rap lyrics.

If you're really a rapper, you can't stop rapping.

Biggie and Big Pun were the best storytellers of the '90s. I would get wrapped up in the narrative of what they were talking about.

Not everybody is a great rapper; not everybody lives for the art of lyricism.