Top 30 ASAP Ferg Quotes

I’m really into simple things – things you could wear every day.

Mixtapes are always small scale to me – they never get taken seriously, and they’re always short-lived.

I used to listen to ‘Ready to Die’ around the time I dropped out of college. I was scrambling for work and money.

‘Illmatic’ was dope.

I used to do design before I was actually rapping. I went to art and design high school.

There’s no borders or lines you can’t cross anymore. Everything is getting blended with everything. That’s the dope thing about music now. Some people don’t like it, more of the older people. They want to, you know, go back to old-school New York hip-hop.

DMX was just one of the figures that I thought no one could ever be better than. I used to look up to him so much. The bikes, the dogs, that’s where I come from.

‘Going Back to Cali’ is one of my favorite songs because of all the East Coast – West Coast rivalry.

At the end of the day, you can’t take my love for my people away.

I don’t have a specific style. My style is unorthodox; that is my style. So you can’t really place me here, place me there, because my style is just to be anywhere, you know what I’m saying?

I got a lot of fans who are not even into fashion. So they look at me and wear what I wear because it’s cool or looks cool.

I’m sort of like Jean-Paul Goude, the graphic designer who used to style Grace Jones and shoot all her visuals, just meaning that I use all mediums in one – music, fashion, and art. I’m hitting it from all angles.

No city owns me, you know what I’m saying? I’m from New York, but no city owns me. Nobody can bottle up my sound and box me in. Yes, I am a rapper, but am I a New York rapper? No. I am from New York, I love New York to death, but I will not conform myself to one place, no.

I thought I was half white or something because I only know white people as Ferguson as their last name.

When I was growing up, I saw the Aaliyah shirts, the DMX shirts, or the collab shirts with DMX and Aaliyah when they had a single together. Those were the dope collage shirts with their faces all over it. They were doing cool things like that.

Andy Warhol’s art wasn’t that interesting to me. He was more interesting to me as a person. He was art himself. I don’t even think he was really into art, per se. He may have liked to do it, but I think he was more into people being into him.

I create art. It’s kinda abstract.

Jeremy Scott reminds me of Harmony Korine, mixing all worlds and making them into one – you just never know what he’s up to.

Me jumping on a song with Ariana Grande is just showing versatility, you know what I’m saying?

People who are scared don’t live life.

I always shout out my dad. My artistic roots come from him. He had his own T-shirt company and taught me the trade.

There’s no racism with the Internet.

I used to be a daredevil on BMX bikes.

I’m an animal lover.

With ‘Dope Walk,’ I wanted to bring back kids dancing and having fun again. That’s how it used to be in Harlem. I remember everybody Harlem-shaking and ‘Chicken Noodle Soup’-ing. Those were some of the most fun and memorable times in my life.

I’m not a manufactured artist. Nobody taught me how to be a proper artist.

I don’t have a problem with how people receive the music. I feel like it’s for everybody.

I’m happy, so I just want to project that happiness through my music to make other people happy.

Rapping can be repetition sometimes. Sometimes you gotta highlight your words in a certain kind of way. So I always was a fan of sing-rapping. It was always funny to me a little bit, and I think that being funny and being able to laugh, even at yourself, is a form of flattery.

Racism been over. It’s the old people that keep on holding on to it.