Rap Quotes

• What inspires me about rap is that it's written in an almost poetic way. I just think it's so cool.

  

  Billie Eilish
  • Cool
  • Rap

• People don't want rap to be anything other than it is. But genres expand. My contributions, no matter how they sound, will always be rap, because they'll always be black.

  

  Chance The Rapper
  • People
  • Black
  • Rap

• I think 'Country Girl' is one song that can veer into country or hip-hop or rap. You can listen to it and enjoy the humor and the fun in it.

  

  Luke Bryan
  • Country
  • Fun
  • Song

• A lot of times black folks look for love in all the wrong places. You're always looking for somebody to love you, be accepted, and there's the insecurities that are even transmitted through rap. Everyone is trying to aim to please too much.

  

  Chuck D
  • Trying
  • Black
  • Rap

• When I was going out and trying to fully give glory to God, in my setting, I feared that people would be dismissive of it, like, 'This is Christian rap. I'm not trying to hear it.' But it's the total opposite: People were very accepting of it.

  

  Chance The Rapper
  • People
  • God
  • Trying

• K-pop is a weird term because K-pop has everything - rap records - it's very pop-sounding; there are really boy-band-sounding records.

  

  Diplo
  • Band
  • Boy
  • Weird

• I'm a singer and a writer first. I started to rap by accident, being playful.

  

  Kesha
  • Rap

• Just because no one can understand how you speak, Don't necessarily mean that what you be sayin is deep.

  

  Talib Kweli Black Star
  • Mean
  • Speak
  • Rap

• 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
  • Good
  • She
  • Bad

• The whole point of 'Acid Rap' was just to ask people a question: does the music business side of this dictate what type of project this is? If it's all original music and it's got this much emotion around it and it connects this way with this many people, is it a mixtape? What's an 'album' these days, anyways?

  

  Chance The Rapper
  • People
  • Music
  • Business

• 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.

  

  Malik Izaak Taylor A Tribe Called Quest
  • Music
  • Heart
  • Hip Hop

• What is feminism? We are just asking for equal opportunities, nothing beyond that. It doesn't mean that you cannot be pretty or you cannot cook or you can't do a whole lot of things. Feminism's got a bad rap; that's it.

  

  Twinkle Khanna
  • Bad
  • Pretty
  • Rap

• 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.

  

  LL Cool J
  • Up
  • Live
  • Real

• Now here's a funky introduction of how nice I am Tell your mother, tell your father, send a telegram.

  

  Malik Izaak Taylor A Tribe Called Quest
  • Mother
  • Father
  • Nice

• When I get up I still check the rap blogs before I check any kind of dance stuff.

  

  Alain Macklovitch
  • Up
  • Dance
  • Rap

• For a while, I was working on transcribing rap lyrics and then converting them into rhythmic patterns on the piano. And so in my mind, when I was taking a solo, I would be saying the lyrics and trying to play actual notes to their rhythms. Now, the influence just comes in and out in my playing.

  

  Jason Moran
  • Mind
  • Trying
  • Lyrics

• I want the feuds to come back - there aren't enough rap feuds anymore. I want a serious rap-off.

  

  Phoebe Tonkin
  • Serious
  • Rap

• I've done movies where I've had to cast actors and teach them to rap, and cast rappers and teach them to act.

  

  Craig Brewer
  • Done
  • Actors
  • Cast

• The only time I ever really got into rap was back in the early '90s, and bands like A Tribe Called Quest, De La Soul, Gang Starr. Musically, they were really interesting. But when hip-hop acts start sampling Sting or Phil Collins, then I just don't get it at all.

  

  Paul Weller Incognito
  • Time
  • Soul
  • Interesting

• Nowadays rap artists coming half-hearted, Commercial like pop, or underground like black markets. Where were you the day hip-hop died? Is it too early to mourn? Is it too late to ride?

  

  Talib Kweli Black Star
  • Black
  • Artist
  • Hip Hop

• One of the fun things as an actor is to find a character that if you were to look up a rap sheet about them, you might say, 'I don't really necessarily want to hang out with this guy' or 'I would never be this kind of guy in my life.' I think it's part of an actor's job to say, 'Maybe you could be.'

  

  Jason Ritter
  • Life
  • Up
  • Character

• Rap is not pop, if you call it that then stop...

  

  Kamaal Ibn John Fareed A Tribe Called Quest
  • Rap
  • Hip Hop
  • Pops

• It seems other rap artists are trying to follow a "tradition", or something... I don't consider us [Migos] as weirdos, we just went the other way and didn't follow the rap tradition. We just killed it and made it our tradition.

  

  Quavo Migos
  • Trying
  • Artist
  • Rap

• I don't really listen to rap; I just like to rap.

  

  Tyler, The Creator
  • Rap

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