Drake Quotes about Rap

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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

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 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

Rap is stress, but it pays great.

Drake

Stress, Rap, Humble

Song: Free Spirit, Album: You Welcome

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

Drake

Rap, Humble, Cocky

Song: Successful

Without me, rap is just a bunch of orphans.

Drake

Rap, Orphan, Bunch

Song: 5AM in Toronto

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.

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.

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.

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