Rap Quotes
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We culture. Rap is the new rock 'n roll. We the rockstars. It's been like that for a minute, Hedi Slimane!
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By the late '80s, I was already giving up on rap music.
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Just knowing how to rap doesn't necessarily mean that you're a good songwriter.
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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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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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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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Time flies, dreams die, people lose faith,
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My first rap name was Ralo. Because my first name is Carlos. I likened myself to what Busta Rhymes was doing when he first came out. And what Onyx did when they first came out - they reminded me of me.
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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.
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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.
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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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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.
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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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Back in the days when I was a teenager, Before I had status and before I had a pager, You could find The Abstract listening to hip-hop, My pops used to say, it reminded him of be-bop, I said, well daddy don't you know that things go in cycles, The way that Bobby Brown is just ampin' like Michael, It's all expected, things are for the lookin', If you got the money, Quest is for the bookin'...
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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.
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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.
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You started rapping when you wasn't good at basketball. I started rapping because I needed Adderall.
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It's not about a salary, it's all about reality.
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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.
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T to the R-uh-O-Y, how did you and I meet?
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Satisfaction, I have the right tactics... And if you need em I got crazy prophylactics.
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I could never rap, personally. I can't even wrap presents.
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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 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.
