Rap Quotes
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Straight from the heart, I represent hip hop I be three albums deep, but I don't wanna go pop Too many candy rappers seem to be at the top Too much candy is no good, so now I'm closing the shop.
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Time flies, dreams die, people lose faith,
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I want to be able to say that a rap career could be ten albums.
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You named them: hustlers, killers, fiends, ex-cons.
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I don't rap like nobody, I don't try to sound like nobody.
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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 want the feuds to come back - there aren't enough rap feuds anymore. I want a serious rap-off.
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Just knowing how to rap doesn't necessarily mean that you're a good songwriter.
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Government workers often get a bad rap, but it's rare for them to receive much appreciation when government works.
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For you to be able to rap fast and fit many words into a bar, that's what rap is about, the showmanship. That's the thing we're kind of losing now. I'm not saying that the music now is horrible. I mean, I don't listen to it. The showmanship and creativity in rap is what made it special and what made it different.
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I tell people that the Clipse were the first Internet rap darlings.
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Cough up a lung where I'm from marcy son, aint nothin nice
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A lot of rap songs don't usually have a lot of melody per se.
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Listening to all these different musical genres from all over the world and listening to my father's record collection, the Irish folk influences from home. Of course they're all in there somewhere hiding within the lyrics and melodies. But rap music was the biggest influence on my way of writing and my performing.
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MC's they retreat cause they know I can beat 'em, And eat 'em in a battle and the ref won't cheat 'em. I'm the best takin' out all rookies, So forget Oreos...eat Cool J cookies.
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Every little boy wanna pick up the mic, And try to run with the big boys and live up to the real hype. But that's like pickin up a ball, playin with Mike, Swingin at Ken Griffey or challengin' Roy to a fight.
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My whole thing is to inspire, to better people, to better myself forever in this thing that we call rap, this thing that we call hip hop.
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I can't do too much musical movement with a lot of MC's, because they don't know how to follow me. But with Souls of Mischief, I could go anywhere because they are musicians - they rap as musicians, and they play instruments and produce, so they get that.
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T to the R-uh-O-Y, how did you and I meet?
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The writing process, the way I go about it is I do whatever the beat feels like, whatever the beat is telling me to do. Usually when the beat comes on, I think of a hook or the subject I want to rap about almost instantly. Within four, eight bars of it playing I'm just like, 'Oh, OK. This is what I wanna do'.
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Millennials get a bad rap sometimes about their grit and perseverance.
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Rap is poetry set to music. But to me it's like a jackhammer.
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I guess, like, I've always listened to rap, and I remember I specifically started listening to, like, pop-rap when I was, like, 11, you know, like Shaggy. I love Shaggy. And then I discovered, like, underground rap when I got to high school, and really, that's when it kind of blossomed. I don't feel like my love for rap blossomed off of Shaggy.
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You know, jazz is the mother of all American music. R&B and pop and rap and everything are the branches on the main tree of the life of music, American music, which is jazz.
