Rap Quotes
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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.
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I don't know if I'll ever make rap music, but I just like people who are like, 'I am going to just find the medium that's best for this idea and master it and do that.'
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Nobody wants to hear me rap.
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Hip-hop was my first audience - I would rap in the mirror, walk down the street and listen to my Walkman.
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I don't know how the rap game is, because I'm a fan of reality, and the rap game's entertainment.
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I would never challenge any rapper to a rap-off. It's weird, I'm not that type of rapper.
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This rap game is just WWF; everybody wants points off somebody else.
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In high school I had a boyfriend who was super into rap, so I was into Too $hort and Wu-Tang for a little while. And my best friend's older brother would sometimes drive us home in this pimped-out truck, and he'd play all his dirty rap music. We thought we were really cool.
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I loved rap, especially in the early days. But I wasn't trying to shove it down anybody's throats.
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Time flies, dreams die, people lose faith,
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'Gangsta rap' is a derogatory label.
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I always felt really alone because no one wanted to talk about the things that I enjoyed, and that was really rap music and hip-hop as a culture. You know, having the shoes, using the words, buying the magazines, seeing the videos. And I had nobody to share it with, so I feel like I lived a lot online.
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It wasn't until I hung out with Dead Prez and understood how to make, you know, raps with a message sound cool that I was able to just write "All Falls Down" in 15 minutes.
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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.
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The bar is so low in rap - mediocrity is king!
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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.
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I listen to a lot of music, and I listen to some rap, and I do like listening to Biggie Smalls.
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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.
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I get imaginative with a mouth full of adjectives, A brain full of adverbs, and a box full of laxatives, Shittin' on rappers, causin' hospital accidents.
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Grew up in Stapleton House village, where blood flood the waters in the streets like oil spillage
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I could never rap, personally. I can't even wrap presents.
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Rap is poetry set to music. But to me it's like a jackhammer.
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People are so confused about race and hip-hop that people didn't even consider the Beastie Boys one of the greatest rap groups of all time because they were white.
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By the late '80s, I was already giving up on rap music.
