Rap Quotes
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'Gangsta rap' is a derogatory label.
Artis Leon Ivey Jr.
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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
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Jay-Z is like a rap-savant, he doesn't have to write the rhymes down, he can create complex raps in his head. I mean he does memorize it, he just doesn't write it down on paper. He doesn't freestyle onto the track, it's all thought out.
Ice T
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Rap is poetry set to music. But to me it's like a jackhammer.
Bette Midler
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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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'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
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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
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Grew up in Stapleton House village, where blood flood the waters in the streets like oil spillage
Robert Fitzgerald Diggs
Achozen
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In America, an acquittal doesn't mean you're innocent, it means you beat the rap. My clients lose even when they win.
F. Lee Bailey
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Time flies, dreams die, people lose faith,
Alvin Nathaniel Joiner
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Infinite was me trying to figure out how I wanted my rap style to be, how I wanted to sound on the mic and present myself. It was a growing stage. I felt like Infinite was like a demo that just got pressed up.
Marshall Bruce Mathers III
Bad Meets Evil'
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When I was in south Sudan, people used to rap in my village. But the rapping was more in the mother tongue, Nuer.
Emmanuel Jal