Rap Quotes
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I said Yo Jay, I can rap. And I spit this rap that said I'm killin' ya'll *****s on this lyrical sh*t, mayonnaise colored benz, I push miracle whips.
Kanye West
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Nobody wants to hear me rap.
Joe Mauer
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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.
Kirsten Dunst
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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.
Derek Luke
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When I first used Auto-Tune, I never used it to sing. I wasn't using it the way T-Pain was. I used it to rap because it makes my voice sound grittier.
Future
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Rap is just somebody getting something off his chest. That's all it is.
Ice Cube
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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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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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Jiyong hyung's mind can go wild and think a lot of things. This was my first time writing my own lyrics so I only thought about myself, but Jiyong hyung won't do that. He'll think, 'Ah, this type of rap suits T.O.P., this part suits Seungri.' That's how he writes lyrics, but I can't do that yet.
Lee Seung-hyun Big Bang
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You named them: hustlers, killers, fiends, ex-cons.
Ka
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I'm very proud of what I was able to do during the '90s, when baggy pants were in and East/West rap was relevant and all these different things.
Jaleel White
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I generally don't use an iPod for track work, as I'm focusing on heart rate and times. When I'm in the gym or running alone, there's always music. If I'm in the weights gym, I usually go for rap or rock music; for running, it's dance or cheesy pop.
Laura Robson
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I could never rap, personally. I can't even wrap presents.
Chris Colfer
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I think that hip-hop should be spelled with a capital "H," and as one word. It's the name of our black people culture, and it's the name of our identity and consciousness. I think hip-hop is not a product, but a culture. I think rap is a product, but when hip-hop becomes a product, that's slavery, because you're talking about people's souls. To me, that's the biggest problem.
Lawrence "Kris" Parker Boogie Down Productions
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I know some very political people who rap, and they say very political things and they'll never get a deal.
Sean Paul
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I seen her on the ave, spotted her more than once. Ass so fat that you could see it from the front.
Yasiin Bey Black Star
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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
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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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Satisfaction, I have the right tactics... And if you need em I got crazy prophylactics.
Kamaal Ibn John Fareed A Tribe Called Quest
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By the late '80s, I was already giving up on rap music.
Chuck Eddy
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Rap is poetry set to music. But to me it's like a jackhammer.
Bette Midler
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I don't rap like nobody, I don't try to sound like nobody.
Yasiin Bey Black Star
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You were put here to protect us. But who protects us from you?
Lawrence "Kris" Parker Boogie Down Productions
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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