Rap Quotes
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Back in the day, when the D.J. would be playing a record, I'd be on the mic trying to hype up the crowd. So once Public Enemy became a rap group, I decided that that's the role that I wanted to take on. I wanted to be the one that was hyping, because I've always been good at it. I can hype up any crowd.
Flavor Flav
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When people say to me 'what do you think of rap music?' my answer is there's no such thing. There's rap and there's music.
Irwin Thomas
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Our music attracts the people that we rap about and make music about, and they come out and actually do it.
Quavo
Migos
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For me, I like old-school rap music. There was a time when music was so, so rich overall, and the content of what people talked about was so deep on every level, song-for-song, pound-for-pound, and on radio, there was so much content. I gravitate more towards that type of music, to be honest.
Ciara
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My earliest memories of defying my parents were through music. I remember rap being banned in my house, and then getting a Cam'ron album.
Kerby Jean-Raymond
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I think rap music is brought up, gangster rap in particular, as well as video games, every other thing they try to hang the ills of society on as a scapegoat.
Ice Cube
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There's always a time when you think you've done your last song or you've written your last rap or, you know, people are not checking for you.
Betty Wright
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If I didn't have a girlfriend, I'd have 10 girls at the studio, and they would make me not rap.
Young Thug
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Life without knowledge is death in disguise.
Talib Kweli
Black Star
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You don't really gotta rap no more; you can just say the verse with a swag now.
Fetty Wap
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I am the manifestation of study,
NOT the manifestation of money.
Therefore, I advance through thought,
NOT what's manufactured and bought.
Lawrence "Kris" Parker
Boogie Down Productions
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I look at WorldstarHipHop in the morning, Bossip, Global Grind, and everything in between, but it's all so quick, I don't even think about it. And I've never been a fan of lyrical or socially conscious rap music.
Harmony Korine
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Make a right down 7th Ave to 4th St Park, feeling the whole ghetto vibe and set my mark
Corey Brent Penn
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When I see things that are inspiring, I must write a song about it. Some people make a t-shirt or slap something on a wall with paint, but I must make music and freestyle rap.
Flula Borg
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The watch everybody rap about, I have in real life.
Offset
Migos
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Being young and female in America, you watch a lot of T.V., and you grow up on false images of what love truly is. We think the man with the best rap will protect and save us, about it's not usually that way. Then you learn love is something deeper and purer in form.
Lauryn Hill
Fugees
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I own the night...the heat's my receipt.
Ka
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Yeah, I record on voice memos. I got like 1,000-something memos. If I'm in the middle of something and I can't get it done, I'll jot it down, but I never write a rap out, ever.
Big Sean