Drake Quotes About Rap

Quotes about: Rap

• When I'm writing, I'm thinking about how the songs are going to play live. Fifty bars of rap don't translate onstage. No matter how potent the music, you lose the crowd. They want a hook; they want to sing your stuff back to you.

  Drake

  Song, Rap, Writing

  "How to Drake It in America" by Michael Paterniti, www.gq.com. June 18, 2013.

• There were people who incorporated melody before me, but I would deem myself the first person to successfully rap and sing.

  Drake

  Rap, People, Firsts

• When I leave I always come right back here. The young spitter that everybody in rap fear.

  Drake

  Rap, Humble, Cocky

  Song: Successful

• Rap is stress, but it pays great.

  Drake

  Stress, Rap, Humble

  Song: Free Spirit, Album: You Welcome

• I would say that I'm more moved by melody, even though I love to rap.

  Drake

  Rap, Melody, Moved

  "On the Cover: Drake". Interview with Claire Hoffman, www.gq.com. April 13, 2012.

• There's two elements to rap: having the thoughts, and then being a great rapper.

  Drake

  Rap, Rapper, Two

  "Drake: I Remain Calm (Cover Story)". Complex Interview, www.complex.com. January 25, 2010.

• 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.

  Drake

  Rap, Winning, Hands

• Without me, rap is just a bunch of orphans.

  Drake

  Rap, Orphan, Bunch

  Song: 5AM in Toronto

• 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.

  Drake

  Love, Rap, Saws

  "Drake, Nicki Minaj open up about his 'Crush' on her" by Mawuse Ziegbe, www.mtv.com. June 14, 2010.

• I would love to collect art at some point, but I think the whole rap/art world thing is getting kind of corny.

  Drake

  Art, Rap, Thinking

  "Drake: High Times at the YOLO Estate" by Jonah Weiner, www.rollingstone.com. February 13, 2014.

• 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.

  Drake

  Sex, Rap, Writing

• Me being biracial, me being from Canada but having success in the States, I have all these moments in my life where I'm jumping roof to roof. Black to white. Singing and rapping.

  Drake

  Rap, Jumping, White

  "Drake: I Remain Calm (2010 Cover Story)". Interview with Damien Scott, www.complex.com. February, 2010.

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