Rap Quotes
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Just knowing how to rap doesn't necessarily mean that you're a good songwriter.
Daniel Dewan Sewell -
When I got into rap I didn't exactly win any popularity contests. I called myself Dee Dee King, after B.B. King, to the total dismay of my fellow Ramones.
Douglas Glenn Colvin Ramones
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When you look at a guy like a Jay-Z or look at a guy like a Nas, you don't necessarily qualify them as conscious rap purely, although they are extremely conscious of the social inequities that prevail.
Michael Eric Dyson -
Usually when I make a record, I know what the potential is going to be, but I didn't know that 'Just A Friend' was going to be that big. 'Just A Friend' opened a world up where I never knew the difference between being a pop star and a regular rap star. It was crazy.
Marcel Theo Hall -
I used to be the class clown. I was the funny kid. That's why it was so hard for people to understand that I rap, because for a long time, they didn't take me seriously for who I was. By, like, eighth grade, I was really rapping.
Chance The Rapper -
So pay attention, it's not hard to decipher, And after the horns, you can check out the Phifer
Kamaal Ibn John Fareed A Tribe Called Quest -
I listen to all the top 20 songs, and top 20 albums, even the rap albums. But I don't like negative messages. If somebody is putting a lot of ego out there, I don't like it. When I make my records I want it to be sincere.
Kenneth Bruce Gorelick -
With rap, it's a funny thing. You can say things, and people can take 'em the way they wanna take 'em.
Young Jeezy
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Girl I don't wanna share you
Mac Miller -
Only two to three per cent of an audience is interested in words and pays attention to lyrics; most of the rest of it is about image or the beat or the sound, or else it's a tribal thing - country & western, rap, heavy metal, with historical folk rock off in some kind of cult.
Al Stewart -
I've been called everything. Gangsta rap. I've been called conscious rap. You know, everything. Whoever feels like calling it whatever they want to call it, that's on them.
Nas -
I did rap when I was a teenager - started rapping when I was nine, and started singing when I was 20. I kinda sing like a rapper would sing.
Mike Posner -
I don't rap like nobody, I don't try to sound like nobody.
Yasiin Bey Black Star -
Rap is poetry set to music. But to me it's like a jackhammer.
Bette Midler
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I don't have to put out another rap record. I can do it at my casual pace.
Ice T -
One thing rap and rock have in common, a lot of it is focused on negativity. I like dark stuff.
Lil Uzi Vert -
Times were changing. Clothes were changing. Morals were changing. We went from romantic loves songs like I used to do to rock 'n roll. Now that has changed to rap. So, there's always a new generation with new music.
Stanley Robert Vinton -
I want to be able to say that a rap career could be ten albums.
Ice T -
I'm really a singer, so I love songs and I love singing. I like rap music, but I didn't grow up freestyling.
William Broad Generation X -
I would never challenge any rapper to a rap-off. It's weird, I'm not that type of rapper.
Donald Glover
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Brainwashed from rock and rap.
Eminem -
'Paper Planes' by M.I.A. is very catchy. I like that, but I listen to everything from rap to Lenny Kravitz to Coldplay, depending on my mood. And my favorite song of all time is 'Always and Forever' by Heatwave.
Keshia Knight Pulliam -
I couldn't do rap. I was trying. I don't know how. I'm not good enough to know.
Douglas Glenn Colvin Ramones -
I'm in R&B/Soul, and I feel like all my music is R&B driven. Even some of the songs that are more rap have an R&B feel, so I'm with that.
Bryson Tiller