Freestyling Quotes

Since I was a kid, I was listening to hip-hop.

Hip-hop was fast, originally. It was always fast music.

Hip-hop was started on groups.

Rap is very competitive. I just think I'm light years better than anybody.

I'm a different type of rapper. I work more than the average rapper.

Hip-hop is a worldwide culture. We have permeated every urban environment.

Hip-hop is bigger than the South; hip-hop is bigger than New York.

I was into hip-hop, growing up early, so I loved Run DMC, LL Cool J, rappers.

I've never considered myself a rapper. I know how to do it. I know how to make my voice project, and I know how to stay on beat and what have you, but I've never considered myself a rapper.

Oh man, I think Damian Lillard makes good music. He has bars.

While a lot of hip-hop was inspired by jazz or James Brown samples and was made to be played live in the clubs, I made hip-hop that was made for MCs to eat the mic up. It was an aggressive form of hip-hop. It was made just for hip-hop. It's not made to sing or dance to, though you can if you want.

A lot of the younger kids now can rap, but they're scared of the crowd. Mastery of that stage is an MC. I don't know if you've seen any great MCs on stage but when you do it's like wow, this is more than the words to rhymes.

Hip-hop started with street poets with great lyrical skills, and that's what hip-hop has always been about for me.

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

Hip-hop is a vehicle.

After I started based freestyling. Just spending a lot of time learning about myself and entering a higher level within my mind. I was exploring my mind, and I ended up finding the Based God.

The greatest MCs came out of groups; the greatest singers came out of groups. So you can't tell us we're not MCs.

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.

I fell in love with hip-hop at an early age as a culture, as a sound, both from the perspective of a fan and a creative outlet.

I come from a traditional hip-hop background.

I guess I am a rapper. It's weird to be called that, or tell someone that's your profession.

I'm a B-boy at heart. I still like rhyming. It's just the radio game is like Chinese arithmetic. It's hard to know what nuts to crack. But I still love music, been dropping music. Never stopped, really.

In the past it seemed like I was making fun of rap a little bit. But it was more me making fun of myself, since I'm not technically a rapper, whatever that means.

I've been trying to nail it into everyone's heads that I feel like I am the most versatile rapper.

The beautiful thing about hip-hop is it's like an audio collage. You can take any form of music and do it in a hip-hop way and it'll be a hip-hop song. That's the only music you can do that with.