Rap Quotes
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I understand what rappers are talking about. I think rap is less about educating people about the black community and more about making money.
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Real slow hits from the bong...
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Now here's a funky introduction of how nice I am Tell your mother, tell your father, send a telegram.
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One thing rap and rock have in common, a lot of it is focused on negativity. I like dark stuff.
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I think L.A. gets a bad rap. L.A. is the same as everywhere else.
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And when we holdin' a Tec, we put a hole in your neck. Equippin' you with a permanent T-Pain vocal effect.
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I got tired of the Ramones around the time I quit and I really got into rap. I thought it was the new punk rock. LL Cool J was my biggest idol.
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Maybe I need somebody that could save me From the parts of myself that keep making me crazy.
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Feeling mad hostile, wearing Aéropostale, Flowing like Christ when I speaks the gospel.
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I don't know where I fit in the spectrum of rap yet.
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The rap scene is so unique. Every rapper has to bring their own thing.
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If you're a conscious rap artist and you're worried about Billboard charts, you're gonna have a problem.
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No one raps about food like I do. I rap about fine dishes - like, all kinds of things that only real chefs and real foodies are going to know about.
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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.
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Cats be talkin', "Bobby I ain't feelin' ya." But I bet if I was peelin' your cap back with a two-shot Dillinger Hot lead released from my cylinder, You'd be talkin' 'bout, "Bobby I'm feelin' ya!"
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I could never rap, personally. I can't even wrap presents.
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Rap's conscious response to the poverty and oppression of U.S. blacks is like some hideous parody of sixties black pride.
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I can rap. Not openly in the world, but it's important that people know! I can rap for a very specific reason, which is that in college I was in an improv comedy group, and we did musical improv.
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I don't dislike rappers or hip-hop or people who like it. I went to the Def Jam tour in Manchester in the '80s when rap was inspirational. Public Enemy were awesome. But it's all about status and bling now, and it doesn't say anything to me.
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I look at rap as an opportunity to act. My head is full of different characters - in each song I'm auditioning a character.
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You got to have style, and learn to be original.
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When we were growing up, I got kicked out of Timbaland's house every day. He was the DJ for my brother's rap group in junior high school. So I was 7, and while Tim's DJ'ing and my brother's rapping, I'd be upstairs dancing.
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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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The current state of music journalism is not bad, but it's not great at all. Some of the hip-hop stuff people get into is exciting, because there's a passion and there's something to explain to a more mainstream audience, so you get these passionate writers who want to express their love for rap and hip-hop, which is cool. But there are too many magazines, and the access has been diminished, so the quality of profiles has gone way down. Internet stuff can be really good, though. I like the dialogue between fans on the Internet. I think that's the best rock writing that's going on right now.
