Quotes About Evolution

Once upon a time Americans didn't want to listen to Canadian rap and now Drake's the biggest rapper in the world.

I grew up in the '90s. My goal isn't to be a '90s rapper, but I have little hints of '90s influence in my music. It's a modern approach to classic rap.

I'm a rapper trying to be an actor.

'Law 3' shows my growth as a rapper. I don't really like maintaining, so on every project, I'm going to show you my growth.

Curren$y used to be my favorite rapper.

I've always wanted to make that change from a rapper into an artist.

Hip-hop is getting to the point now where they are going to start sounding like Al Jarreau or Bobby McFerrin or some of the other poets. Some of the better rappers can rap real fast without even melodies. It'll get to that same point.

I think that's what most of us rappers do too often. We put too much information in some of our albums that could actually be on the next ones.

I feel like when you listen to music, it's almost like the same thing over and over, but of course as time goes on, rappers evolve, lyrical play evolves.

People in rock had this idea that rappers aren't talented. In my opinion we're better writers, we think deeper, and our concepts are harder - Rap evolves faster than any other genre.

I never knew anything about rapping.

I had written rap songs in the early '90s and even did a couple homemade rap songs with my brother in like '88 or '89, but it was just like... I don't even know how to say it. Just plain rap. I was just rapping about whatever, there was no real style or direction, it was just semi-braggadocious rhymes that probably imitated 100 other rappers.

When break dancing was out, I break danced. When rapping was the thing, I freestyled rap on the street and battled and all that kind of stuff.

I was rapping in 1939. It's old. The roots are complex. And kids don't know.

I always laugh when I listen to my old stuff. I was just trying way too much back then. Doing too many harmonies and too many runs and all the crazy stuff. Rapping all funny and animated.

I've learned that we all change constantly. It's rare to find that person who is growing with you in the same way at the same time, who encourages you to grow.

Blue and green eyes will be so common that dark brown will become the rare and newly desired eye color.

Older people may have always existed throughout history, but they were rare.

Plenty of entrepreneurs can start a company. What is more rare is to evolve it and to scale with it over time.

A 'serious' scientist in 1992 or 1993 had to admit the possibility that planets were really rare, that most stars might not have planets. We've gone from there to here - where most stars have planets.

Change is rarely comfortable.

I still like to play the guitar, but I rarely have anything to do with the music business these days. I mean, there is no music business anymore, is there?

When I first started to cook, I would cook these elaborate meals, but I rarely cook at home now.

Rarely do you walk down the street doing anything that my grandparent's generation did. And half of that comes with the technology advances.