Melodic Flow Quotes

I don't like pre-written raps; I think it makes the song better if you listen to the beat first. In a sense, you have to make a marriage with the beat. I ride the beat, hear the flow of the drums, get the melody of my flow, and then from that point, it's a process of what I want to say.

Nothing I do is ever void of melody. I know it might seem like I'm doing a lot of rapping, but I'm always utilizing tone and trying to find a key signature. So, I don't look at myself as a rapper.

I may not be as lyrically adept as Jay-Z and Morrissey, but at least I can sing what I feel.

When I write a song, I get the melody right first, and then hopefully I can back it up with a lyric that has to respect the melody.

I see myself like what Drake did in the game. I came with melodies and different lyrics, from a different place - reggaeton is from Puerto Rico; Drake is from Canada.

I wanted to write songs that would play themselves on stage, songs that sweep you through their current.

I grew up listening to T-Pain and The-Dream, and they were doing that thing, rapping and singing at the same time. That's where I get it from.

I never write a song before I get the track because I just feel that I have to make a marriage with that track with my raps. And if it's something that's already there, it ain't gone really fit, I don't think.

I would find myself, not necessarily always assigning these little bits of music for here or there, but all of a sudden something would fall into place and it would be exactly that.

The people need to feel the music.

The underlying process in Northern music tends to be slower and continuous, whatever's happening on the surface; in Southern music the underlying process is always faster.

I want the audience to be so involved in the sweep of the music.

Your cadence is your music.

I find it harder to write the lyrics afterwards because then you're just trying to fit them into something that's already there.