Аfter all the beats and rhymes, I felt like everybody around me was rapping and so I was like.
I'm not rapping, I'm conversing. It's just a conversation between me and you.
To be hip-hop is much more than just rapping in the production. It is more in the attitude.
I'm not really interested in anybody, that's why I started rapping. I'm still a fan of Tupac. That's the only rapper that I'm still like, "Oh! Tupac!"
Not even battling but just really known for rapping. Like I had songs up on Soundclick first, take it back.
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'm not completely at ease at rapping, I can't do it well yet.
I don't think I'm more politically-based as much as socially-based. My grandmother died on February 29th, and she kept all of my magazine and newspaper scraps, every interview. I've been in the newspapers since I was about 15 - not for rapping, but for real substantive stuff I was doing in the community, organizing around gang violence in the schools. So I had already made my grandma proud before I was on TV. I've always been who I am.
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.
If you're really a rapper, you can't stop rapping.
Rapping is the only time I'm serious.
I was rapping at eight.
When I came out rapping on my record, a lot of people said, Oh, you just want to be like Puff.
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'm not longer rapping, I want to open up an ice cream parlor and call myself Scoop Dogg.
I've been rapping and writing since junior high school, just having fun with it as a hobby. Then I got signed to a label Poe Boy Entertainment four years ago, I started taking it serious about a year and a half, two years ago.
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.
When I began rapping, I only had one form at my disposal. All I had, all I needed was a rhyme verse; sixteen bar, thirty-two bar, whatever it was. If I had an idea it came out as a rhyme. When I challenged myself to think beyond that, my first thing other than a rhyme that I wrote was a play.
I got a liberal education. A white guy, rapping as Bugs Bunny, on a quintuple-platinum album.
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.
