I don't even think I'm that good at rapping, but I think what makes a great rapper - what CAN make a great rapper - is someone who wants to be better.
Rapping about a surgery is something that makes sense for me to do.
I would say I started rapping because my friends were doin it.
Appeasers will always try to get the least dangerous person to bend to the most dangerous person. This is one of the main problems in dysfunctional relationships. The more mature and rational you are the more you are victimized because, they are aware that you're not going to be as aggressive, destructive, or possibly as abusive and so you are the one who has to bend. You're the one who has to change and this constant rapping of rational people's souls around the prickly irrationalities of other people are what appeasers are constantly doing.
You see somebody rapping and you're like, "Nah, my cousin can do that. " You're spoiled by the experience. Overseas, it's still something that people can appreciate.
When I came out rapping on my record, a lot of people said, Oh, you just want to be like Puff.
When I started Fool's Gold and producing consistent records that were like electro beats with rapping on it that was experimental and weird. I made a mixtape called Dirty South Dance where I put rap vocals over dance music. That was literally an experiment. Now all these rappers are rapping on dance music. This is something I've been trying to build for a while.
If you're really a rapper, you can't stop rapping.
I'm not rapping, I'm conversing. It's just a conversation between me and you.
I've always been rapping before I was making money off of it. Before I made a profit, I had always been rapping.
Two things happened. The creative side of my career was harmed. When I'd sit down and write under the influence of coke, the ratio of pages kept to pages thrown out declined drastically. But onstage, when rapping about a feeling I already owned, I would sometimes get a burst of eloquence.
Writing was something I always did but that turned into singing and rapping. That something that came out of my writing.
That's what my music. . . I'm working on a solo record right now, it's gonna be more hip-hop than anything, like electronic hip-hop, futuristic hip-hop. I'm probably gonna be rapping on it.
I just don't want to be rapping forever. I love it, but sometimes you got goals for yourself.
SK La'Flare's a legend. It was me, him and Vince, and Frank would come through sometimes and s - - and he was, like, fully rapping. N - - s was on it.
There are a lot of new sounds I've gone for, which I may not have been ready to go for in the past, especially moving away from just rapping. I really tried to push my songwriting side on this one. I think that, for better or worse, people have definitely been able to tell. Changing style is always gonna be a lovehate thing for people, but I love it all, and I can't please everyone so that's all that matters.
Not even battling but just really known for rapping. Like I had songs up on Soundclick first, take it back.
When I first came back into the booth, I starting rapping.
I would challenge more hip hop artists that are rapping about what it`s like to be real and the social ills that we face, if you aren`t backing Bernie Sanders, I have to question your credibility in terms of do you mean the songs you`re writing.
Аfter all the beats and rhymes, I felt like everybody around me was rapping and so I was like.