A Quote by Ezra Koenig

I still to this day get the most inspiration from rap lyrics.

Ezra Koenig

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Ezra Koenig
American - Musician
Born: April 8, 1984

I didn't get into rap to be no lyrical genius. I got into rap to feed my family and help the people in need around me, that's it. A lot of people say, 'Man, Waka Flocka ain't go no lyrics,' so I was like, 'Yeah, you right!'

Waka Flocka Flame

I love rap lyrics, I love hearing people rap, I love molding a thought or idea into the shape that fits on a rap beat.

Aesop Rock

But, Eminem... No, I've loved rap for a long time, especially when it got out of its first period and became this gangsta rap, ya know this heavy rap thing? That's when I started to fall in love with it. I loved the lyrics. I loved the beat.

Alan Vega

First we start with the lyrics. Most of the lyrics are done by Stefan Kaufmann and me. When we have enough lyrics and enough stories we have the lines to make titles. Then we collect all the ideas of everybody in the band and see which ideas fit together the best with the lyrics to get the right atmosphere. That's the way we compose.

Udo Dirkschneider

I just want everybody to have fun. When I came into rap, that was my whole inspiration. That's what rap used to be about.

Mase

By no means am I excusing homophobic rap lyrics, but as a product of the same environments that birthed hip-hop, I fully understand why those lyrics existed.

Karamo Brown

My most revered hero is Robert Johnson. His lyrics are so consistent with rap: the danger, the boldness, the creativity.

Fantastic Negrito

I don't spend afternoons practicing my guitar to get better. I do read, though, to get inspiration for my lyrics.

Mat Kearney

I loved writing lyrics for rap when I was in junior high. I loved studying, but somehow I wanted to be a rapper who can write and rap.

Lyrics are coming to you all the time. I get inspiration in the middle of the night.

Rod Stewart

Rap music is amazing, it's beautiful. But the problem is the lyrics. The person who writes the lyrics - that's the problem.

Emmanuel Jal

Rap is still an art, and no-one's from the Old School Cuz rap is still a brand-new tool

KRS-One

You can still make music that people love, but there won't be more innovation. I started listening to electronic music a long time ago. But mostly I listen to rap. I think rap is the most interesting.

Harmony Korine

Inspiration comes from everywhere. Obviously, my lyrics are what I most care about in the moment and what I feel like I need to say.

Sophie Hawley-Weld

I would say I'm a fan of late '90s to early 2000s rap. That's where I get all my inspiration from.

Tyga

I usually start with a guitar riff or some little pattern of chords, and then I kind of go from there. Usually my lyrics are the last thing to go onto a song. For years and years I only ever did instrumental, so I'm still trying to get confidant with my lyrics and find the right balance. I'll generally get inspired from the music. I'll have a guitar line, and then I'll have a melody line, and I hook the lyrics up to fit that rhythm. So, my lyrics to tend be very rhythmic as well. They work with the music rather than the music works around them.

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