Rap Quotes
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When you're a rapper, just a rapper, you have to kind of settle for whatever comes your way - if a beat is hot, you wanna rap on it, period.
J. Cole
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I'm blacked than midnight on Broadway and Myrtle
Yasiin Bey Black Star
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I try to keep the music fresh in my head. And I don't always listen to rap; I listen to a little bit of everything: R&B, rock.
Hakeem Seriki
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In rap, as in most popular lyrics, a very low standard is set for rhyme; but this was not always the case with popular music.
James Fenton
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The average rap life is two or three albums. You're lucky to get to your second album in rap!
Jay-Z
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With 'Acid Rap,' I allowed myself to be really open-minded and free with who I allowed into my musical space. I wanted to make a cohesive product, but I also just want to make a bunch of dope songs inspired by whatever sounds I liked.
Chance The Rapper
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Why did one straw break the camel's back? Here's the secret: The million other straws underneath it.
Yasiin Bey Black Star
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Took two drags off the blunts, and started breaking down the flag: The blue is for the Crips, the red is for the Bloods, The whites for the cops, and the stars come from the clubs Or the slugs that ignite, through the night, By the dawn early light, why is sons fighting for the stripe?
Robert Fitzgerald Diggs Achozen
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I used to let the olde english 8- suds bubble in the last car of the Franklin Avenue shuttle
Lawrence "Kris" Parker Boogie Down Productions
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We ain't speak, clicking heat is our Morse code.
Ka
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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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"Dark Fantasy" was my long, backhanded apology. You know how people give a backhanded compliment? It was a backhanded apology. It was like, all these raps, all these sonic acrobatics. I was like: "Let me show you guys what I can do, and please accept me back. You want to have me on your shelves."
Kanye West
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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 ain't Mary, so ain't a damn thing Poppin'.
Alvin Nathaniel Joiner
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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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A lot of rap songs don't usually have a lot of melody per se.
Weird Al Yankovic
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I actually grew up break-dancing. When you break-dance you listen to hip-hop and rap, so I've been listening to that music since I was a kid.
Matthew Morrison
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Beef is not what Jay said to Nas; Beef is when the working folks can't find jobs.
Yasiin Bey Black Star
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I have tried... believe me, I have tried to like rap music. It makes me feel so very, very old. I have tried to get home with the downies.
Dylan Moran
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Do the math: You never settle for less than the whole if you knew the half.
Talib Kweli Black Star
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I think, British food, it's had a bad rap.
April Bloomfield
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I write poetry, and I put it to a beat - I mean, that's what they call rap.
Keith Stanfield
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I don't like calling it Christian rap. Titles are so limiting. It's hip-hop. I'm a rapper.
Andy Mineo
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I got Soul Power, never took a cold shower,
James Anthony Robinson