Raftaar Quotes

"I think rap is all about what you feel about a situation and not just about cars, alcohol and women."

"What is offensive is different for everyone."

"I come from an extremely modest background. So now I have way more than what I'm used to."

"My mom's not working, my dad doesn't want to stop working because he likes to be engrossed, so everybody is happy."

"Being a Malayali, I had to learn Punjabi and Haryanvi to be able to jump into the music scene."

"I do rap and speak in Malayalam but only to save my life as my vocabulary in the language is not as good as it is in Hindi."

"Living in Delhi, I head to the mountains or the seaside at every chance I get. I like bungee-jumping and rafting in Rishikesh."

"If you try to sound like somebody else, it will never work because we already have that person. You are noticed when you try to be an original sound."

"If you have another actor like Ranveer Singh, same energy and same vibe, you probably won't look at that person. There are a lot of people who can rap, it's just a different personality or sound that gets noticed."

"I am my own parent when it comes to rapping and do impromptu stuff. Being a rapper, you have to be good at improvising, like you give me a word and I have to rhyme it quickly and then make sense out of the rhyme."

"I hate it when people in India throw in an American or English accent while rapping without even a passport in possession."

"While writing a normal song, we just pen four lines and then we have a chorus and some lines again. But rap is about storytelling and requires extra effort to write."

"I want to be like Chris Brown meets Jay Z. Chris is a singer, a dancer, a complete powerhouse on stage and Jay Z is not just a popular musician, but also a lyrical genius, a business mogul, who knows how to be classy."

"Growing up in the north, it was natural for me to absorb the Punjabiness around me. I like their way of living, their large-heartedness. I know no other way."

"I knew I had a sharper mind than most others and I had a sense of rhyme. One didn't even need to sing melodies. It felt like the perfect way to make my way out of the gutter."

"Rapping is competitive. Even someone who is not particularly fond of my music, may claim to be my fan only because he hates Honey Singh."

"All my hits in Punjab and Haryana are about heartbreak."

"When we are making our independent music, we know our directors and what's happening around as we are paying for it. When it's a movie song, it's not you who is doing everything it's the creative heads and production house."

"I like to live life in a way that I understand, it's satisfying. I understand you have to reach a mark where everyone likes you but in reality they don't like you, they like your work."

"I don't want to just make music as I want to be legendary. I understand it has to be commercial as I have to feed my family. I am in between these two marks and they are not many people in this space. I want my work to my valued even if my face is forgotten."

"You can't stop an artist from expressing his views through art."

"When I rapped for 'Manto', I used cuss words and no one objected because it was an adult movie. I feel cuss words are also a way of expression."

"I feel instead of censorship, we need to self-regulate ourselves while producing any kind of content."

"Delhi gives you a lot of love. Bombay people don't care much because it's usual for them to see a TV serial guy or a movie actor."

"Outside my house in Delhi, you will find at least 10 guys waiting to catch a glimpse of me."