Wrong guy Quote by Cypress Hill

Sometimes, when people stop making records with the four-tracks and go into the studio, they lose the edge and the craziness and the DIY…

— Josh Freese

I don't know where these rap guys get off trying to act so hard.

— Ivan Moody

An archetypal gangster is always at a remove. We can't get into his mindset.

— Jacques Audiard

I look at rap as an opportunity to act. My head is full of different characters - in each song I'm auditioning a character.

— Nicki Minaj

Ego is my career. Rap music is all ego.

— Earl Sweatshirt

When you do rap albums, you got to train yourself. You got to constantly be in character.

— Tupac Shakur

I'm trying to bring gangster rap back to the forefront, like in the early '90s.

— Freddie Gibbs

I'm a real gangster rapper and I'm a rapper. I just think my music takes different directions. I don't think you can pigeon hole…

— Freddie Gibbs

The personal antics have overshadowed the music. I never wanted that but I knew what I was getting into when I got into everything…

— Kid Rock

Live my life through some film, man I ain't acting out shit, I be packing out shows cause' they know that they don't know…

— Kendrick Lamar

It takes a certain type of rapper for me to really get into the album.

— Shawn Mendes

By the end of the writing process, which is about 80 songs per album, I look at the material and think, what's going to…

— Jason Mraz