Rap Quotes
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I'm already popular in my city. I was just trying to get rich. Man, I'm not gonna lie to you; I didn't really want to go back to school. I mean, my family was mad about that. Because, you know, you tell your family you want to rap, and they look at you like you're crazy.
Lil Uzi Vert
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What inspires me about rap is that it's written in an almost poetic way. I just think it's so cool.
Billie Eilish
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Rap comes from the oral tradition. The oral tradition gives voice to those who would've otherwise been voiceless.
Benjamin Zephaniah
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My take on rap is driven by straightforward American southern rock and blues.
Robert James Ritchi
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The literacy level at Mississippi prisons? Fifth grade. Can't read, what are you going to do? If you've got a conviction rap, what are you going to do? It's a real crisis.
Marian Wright Edelman
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I never really liked the idea of rap being a competitive thing. It's not.
Chance The Rapper
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Salad can get a bad rap. People think of bland and watery iceberg lettuce, but in fact, salads are an art form, from the simplest rendition to a colorful kitchen-sink approach.
Marcus Samuelsson
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I don't wear the see-through shirts or anything too glittery. I come from that '90s school of rap. Fitted caps, because I got a big head, so snapbacks don't fit me right.
Meek Mill
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When I get up I still check the rap blogs before I check any kind of dance stuff.
Alain Macklovitch
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I got a funny feeling like something was real wrong... Looked at her shoes and her feets was real long! Then it hit me, Oh please God no, Don't let this ho turn out to be a John Doe... He pulled a fast one on me, yo!
Derrick Lemel Stewart
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Once you find your lane, you can't cruise;
Ka
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What I don't do is try to like become whoever I'm rapping with. The people who go get an LL album want to hear LL.
LL Cool J
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Legions of young hip-hop fans are as against this as hip-hop's most fierce critics. There is a huge underground movement within hip-hop circles that against these representation. You can hear this message on tons of lyrics and rap songs produced by independent emcees. But they are fighting against a well-oiled and well-financed machine.
Bakari Kitwana
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No one said, 'This is the best female rapper.' It's more like, 'Lizzo can really rap.' I think its because I'm not that sexy girl. I'm that beast girl.
Lizzo
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They that will not be counseled, cannot be helped. If you do not hear reason she will rap you on the knuckles.
Gene Fowler
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I've been dancing since I was two, learning so many different styles. I like dancing to rap and hip-hop, but also the Strokes, the Hives, and the Vines with carefree randomness. There's always a way to move to something.
Jillian Hervey
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Think about it, if you was there standing looking at me. What would you do, if I hit your face with dog doo-doo?
Keith Matthew Thornton
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Rap is really just too conventional. Everybody does the same thing. No one ever pushes the box.
Tyler, The Creator
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Be a king? Think not. Why be a king when you can be a God?
Marshall Bruce Mathers III Bad Meets Evil'
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When I was 13 years old, I was dressing in a rap style. And then I changed schools, and the rap style became old-fashioned, so I changed it completely.
Louis Garrel
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Put me anywhere on God's green earth, I'll triple my worth. Motherf--. I, will, not, lose.
Jay-Z
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My focus is anything that allows me to express myself. Rap, dance, photography. Those are my forms of expression.
Keith Stanfield
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The rap on Obama has been that he is a little too cool and aloof. The rap on Romney may be that he is just plain callous.
David Horsey
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Either I'm listening to rap music, getting hyped up to go out and do something, or I'm listening to church music.
Hailey Rhode Baldwin