Top 55 Goldlink Quotes

The thing is, Mac Miller wrote all of ‘Divine Feminine.’ That was a great album.

Soundcloud is the best thing that ever happened to me honestly.

I’m gonna find creative ways to connect with people that actually matter and exist. That’s kinda like my goal, like, how can we creatively do things in a different way so that we can actually get people and talk to them?

I just simply rap about my life.

I just like a beat that grabs me. And then I’ll come up with a concept after. I like to take my time with music.

I love meeting people, I love seeing faces.

When I write songs, I write from a lot of perspectives.

In black culture, you know, we used to go swing dancing. We used to go out to go dance and actually have fun.

My mom and I weren’t that close when I was growing up because she was gone seven days of the week; she was always in church.

I just love home. I just attached to it since I grew up there my entire life.

Edgar Allan Poe is amazing because he was so dark. He’s from Baltimore and so cynical that you can feel it when you’re reading, it feels so honest.

There wasn’t any one particular moment where I realised, you know what, I’m going to be a musician. The decision more came from a lack of options.

My biggest influence is my city. There’s so much there. We have our own lingo, food, music and culture.

With ‘At What Cost,’ I was basically reliving a time in my life during the go-go era. I remember when it was popping for my generation and how that felt and what it looked like.

One of my friends is serving 33 years. Armed robbery. Those are the things you should rap about. I don’t think you should glorify it at all. I don’t really glorify it. I just talk about it. There’s nothing special about that life.

Do you know what kills me? The cropped hats. The beanies that are rolled up past your ears, in the summer as well! There’s no function to it.

I’m into literally all types of music man. I love music.

I read slowly, I watch movies slowly, because I retain everything.

I’m not really a big Internet fan.

If I’m everybody’s hero from Canada all the way down to Australia, but I’m not able to come home? Then I failed.

I used to do push-ups every morning from 6:00 to 8:00.

I don’t have a hip-hop goal but I want to headline Bonnaroo one day.

My mother was into church so she listens to gospel music. I like the way gospel is composed… the great vocalist chord and the way they make you feel.

I prefer owning something and partnering with other people, instead of like joining something.

I won an ASCAP award two years in a row – that was sick.

Looking back, I made my mistakes and I understand and learned from them.

I went to my first go-go when I was in, like, sixth grade.

I’m very self-aware.

In order for me to sell D.C., I have to have people understand us.

Black History in 2019 and beyond is all about inclusivity.

With ‘Opening Credit,’ we were trying to establish a certain tone and put people in a specific mood.

I like back-stories to music.

When I started soul-searching, I tapped into the old me and what I grew up around. I learned a lot about myself, and it really made me appreciate my upbringing.

I grew up with go-go music. We wasn’t really hip-hop fans.

When you’re a teenager, you think you’re invincible. You don’t listen to anyone.

I never imagined myself being a rapper.

As cliche as that sounds, Maya Angelou is one of the best writers I’ve ever read. She’s very wise and to the point.

Balance is good. You should always have balance… you need it to survive.

Dark skin women are so beautiful and I feel like people forget. Real talk.

We’re all people at the end of the day.

I think for men and women, there’s a different dynamic when it comes to love. Because I feel like a man who falls in love with a woman falls harder than a woman falling for a man. We’re not emotionally as accepting as women are.

I used to sing in a choir when I was young. My mom forced me hardbody. I was hella young, like 5 years old.

I like being on my own, building on my own, and standing on my own.

I guess I’m kind of a sucker for the emotion of music. I guess it’s kind of odd, but it’s the way I appreciate music. I present my stuff that way as well.

Sober Thoughts’ is a song about an unhealthy relationship I was in with a girl, where we would continue to mistreat each other, to spite each other. We were bad for each other, yet we always came back together, because we thought we ‘loved each other.’ It was a young love, not a forever love.

I just wear the uniform of the city I’m from.

I just wanna make more music, legit music as opposed to keeping the same constant thing. I wanna show growth in the music, pretty much.

I’m very complex and complicated. I like a lot, a lot.

I always tell people, when I was growing up I was really into getting money – I didn’t really care about anything else.

Black culture is pop culture, Black History Month is every month, and that’s something they want us to forget. What better way to remember than to highlight all of our differences as a singular people across the globe?

I don’t talk a lot.

I’m a private person.

Black women, dark skin women are the original beautiful people to me.

Love to me has no bounds.

Go-go is so drum and Congo based. It’s almost like music from Africa. The drums like on ‘Planet Paradise’ are deeply African-rooted. It’s really bouncy and the same speed as go-go music. That’s an example of the influence go-go had on me.