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Rap is from the streets and I'm from the streets. That's why a lot of people accept me.

With rap, it's a funny thing. You can say things, and people can take 'em the way they wanna take 'em.

When you've been raised in care, rap music isn't just about guns and sexism. They're talking about real things you can hang on to, problems of identity that you have sympathy with. It's not just about the music, with rap: when I was in care, it meant a whole lot more than that.

It's bad poetry executed by people that can't sing. That's my definition of Rap.

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!'

Rap is poetry set to music. But to me it's like a jackhammer.

The roots of rap are originally ghetto-ised or extremely working class. So when you're an artist who's making something which isn't how its mainstream appearance should be, there's always these strange questions of authenticity and what you have to do to be 'real' as a rapper.

This is hip-hop. If you've got something you want to rap about, just rap about it, man.

Rap is supposed to be about keeping it real and not relinquishing your roots in the community. Without that, it's just posturing. Somebody who claims to speak for the 'hood don't need no private jet.