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"There's no way I can compete with someone who can write rap or rock and roll. Nor do I wish to. But I've always kept up to date with music changes. I worked very hard not to type myself."
"I'm certainly not a f**king fashion consultant. Don't call me if you want to know how to dress. I just rap. That's all I really know how to do."
"Now who is the king of these lewd, ludicrous, lucrative lyrics; who could inherit the title, to put the youth in hysterics; using his music as spirit"
"Spit fire from my hammer like I wasn't God's child."
"But I still rap like I'm on my Pharoahe Monch grind."
"Infinite was me trying to figure out how I wanted my rap style to be, how I wanted to sound on the mic and present myself. It was a growing stage. I felt like Infinite was like a demo that just got pressed up."
"We just wanted to get as far away from the rap-rock scene as possible, because its been done and other bands do it better than us anyway."
"I left my Phillie at home, Do you have another? I wanna get blunted, my brother."
"I said 'Whoa, little hottie, I'm not DeLorean, Gambino or Gotti. I don't deal coke, And furthermore you're making me broke. I'll put you in a rehab and I won't tell your folks.' And what do you know, In 18 months she came home, And I let her back in... And now she's sniffing again."
"Sometimes I rhyme slow sometimes I rhyme quick, I was on 125 and St.Nick"
"I got into music via the competitions; the first time I ever performed was in a kind of rap battle, competing for money."
"There is no better education than rap battling in terms of performance. It makes you fearless."
"I never gave up rapping - it gave up on me. There was no industry and no appetite for UK rap back then and I had a daughter to feed. I couldn't keep doing something full time that didn't pay the bills."
"No, I can't do rap music..."
"When I finish writing a rap verse. It's a lot like sex: You start off slow with ideas, like foreplay, and then you put your all into it. When you end it with the perfect thought, it's like that perfect last stroke."
"There's two elements to rap: having the thoughts, and then being a great rapper."
"It's about finding what's next. I'm hesitant to let people know what producers I'm f---ing with, what I'm rapping about. I'd rather drop that winning hand out of nowhere."
"I saw Nicki for the first time and, like, literally fell in love. She had this snap-back hat on that said 'Minaj.' She used to wear that every single day. She was like a theater student and she was so cold at rapping."
"I would love to collect art at some point, but I think the whole rap/art world thing is getting kind of corny."
"I have tried... believe me, I have tried to like rap music. It makes me feel so very, very old. I have tried to get home with the downies."
