Rap Quotes
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To me, it isn't tight sweaters. That's not what rap is. That's not hip-hop at all. Every phase went through changing up their dress styles and all that, but since Run DMC came out, it's been baggy jeans.
DMX
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I'm building my adult beverage empire the way I built my independent rap label. As my career.
Earl Stevens
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Rap is still an art, and no-one's from the Old School Cuz rap is still a brand-new tool
Lawrence "Kris" Parker Boogie Down Productions
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And to the rest of the world God gave you shoes to fit you So put 'em on and wear 'em Be yourself man, be proud of who you are Even if it sounds corny Don't ever let anyone tell you you ain't beautiful
Marshall Bruce Mathers III Bad Meets Evil'
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A flower that grow in the ghetto know more about survival than the one from fresh meadows.
Talib Kweli Black Star
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But, Eminem... No, I've loved rap for a long time, especially when it got out of its first period and became this gangsta rap, ya know this heavy rap thing? That's when I started to fall in love with it. I loved the lyrics. I loved the beat.
Alan Vega
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I always felt that rap didn't cause crime; it just reflected it.
John Roger Stephens
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Now there she goes again, the dopest Ethiopian, And now the world around me be gets movin in slow motion Whenever she happens to walk by, why does the apple of my eye Overlook and disregard my feelings no matter how much I try?
Derrick Lemel Stewart
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Keep bustin about where you rest, and what you own, and what you drive.
Alvin Nathaniel Joiner
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Who else is putting seven figures down for unreleased rap tracks?
Martin Shkreli
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I feel like I'm the last rap superhero. I really do. I feel like everybody else, they seem to be a bit victimized, and I don't feel like that's me.
Terrence LeVarr Thornton
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A trap lord is basically the lord of the trap, and my trap is rap.
Darold D. Brown Ferguson Jr. ASAP Mob
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I hope people listen to the music. Don't write it off because there is a Christian doing it and it's been labeled that way, because if I'm honest with you, Christian rap for the most part has been corny.
Andy Mineo
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I think being Shaquille O'Neal would be the most amazing thing. There's nothing I would have done differently in his life. Everything he's done I think is pretty spot on, even, like, the bad rap videos, the shoes, the movies, everything.
David Chang
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New York City pretty much reeked of music. Reeked of rap and hip-hop. As for me, growing up in a strict West Indian, Trinidadian household, and a Christian household as well, I had to fight for the right to go and actually be a part of it.
Malik Izaak Taylor A Tribe Called Quest
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You beefed cause you heard that I was cursing in my raps, 86, still you wanna run and get the straps.
LL Cool J
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Your whole appearance is a lie and it could never be true. And if you really loved yourself, then you would try and be you.
Malik Izaak Taylor A Tribe Called Quest
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I want a girl with extensions in her hair, Bamboo earrings, at least two pair, A Fendi bag and a bad attitude, That's all I need to get me in a good mood. She can walk with a switch and talk with street slang, I love it when a woman ain't scared to do her thing.
LL Cool J
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I'm into the lyrical side of rap. I listen to some old Eminem songs and think, 'Wow, he's a genius.' He's one of the greatest poets of our time. Even when he's out of control, like on 'Cold Wind Blows,' it's incredible.
Phoebe Tonkin
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I think it's important for people to understand that as a woman, I can only rap about the parts I have.
Nora Lum
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Rap actually took root in the Negro community, and then in the Hispanic community, long before it impacted on the larger American community as a whole.
Archie Shepp
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I just knew what I wanted to be since the third grade. And I always did well in school. I was the type to get good grades; I never really got below Cs or nothing like that. I always kept it A-B. But there's no school for rap.
Big Sean
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I wish I could rap! I wish I could rap like Azealia Banks or Lil Wayne or someone like that... Twista. He's super fast.
Charli XCX
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If we but give it time, a work of art 'can rap and knock and enter our souls' and re-align us - all our molecules - to make us whole again.
P. K. Page