I was always into the West Coast rap, the production and the flows were always more appealing to me. I think my rapping days are over though.
This is going to sound ridiculous, but I read in an interview with Lil Wayne that he recorded a mixtape of something like 50 straight minutes of him rapping all of his material because he felt like he could never move on to the next phase of his musical exploration if he didn’t get it down on tape.
Gibberish rap is – I freestyle all the time, just hangin’ out with friends. And sometimes when I’m freestyling, I’ll lose my flow, you know, but I’ll still wanna – I don’t wanna just stop rapping because I lose my flow. So I’ll just put in nonsense words till I can bring in regular words again.
I always knew that I would be some type of public figure, but I never knew that it would be rapping, ’cause my dad sang: I saw him deal with the ills of the music industry, just on the outside looking in.
Before I was rapping, I was always around the rap game, even though I was in the streets. I would be at all the parties and all the events, and I was pretty hard to miss. I was one of the few Spanish cats sitting there with jewelry on, Dapper Dan suits. It was pretty hard to miss me.
To be rapping in a musical on Broadway is just – that sentence doesn’t make any sense in my brain.
I just don’t want to be rapping forever. I love it, but sometimes you got goals for yourself.
It’s mad to think I was just a kid from south London, rapping in parks with friends.
I’ve been rapping since I was 13.
Before I was rapping, I was an interior designer and decorator.
I’ve been rapping since 1979.
I don’t plan to restrict myself to rapping in the future, and I didn’t want to come off as too aggressive, which is why I thought about changing my name.
I started rapping because I wanted people to hear what I have to say, I want as many people to hear me as possible, and I do everything in my power to make that pop.
I don’t want to just be fully rapping my whole life.
When I first started making music, I was all about wordplay and how fast I could rap, but over the years, I’ve really gained an appreciation for melody. What’s cool is that when you’re singing, you have to be concise, and when you’re rapping, you have the opportunity to be really detailed with your lyrics.
I wanna keep rapping, I intend to. It’s good to mix it up, but I’m still gonna stay true to rapping.
