Rap Quotes
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Since the 1960s, mainstream media has searched out and co-opted the most authentic things it could find in youth culture, whether that was psychedelic culture, anti-war culture, blue jeans culture. Eventually heavy metal culture, rap culture, electronica - they'll look for it and then market it back to kids at the mall.
Douglas Rushkoff
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Keep my planets in orbit,
Never forfeit or quit,
Move forward...
I talk with the awkward slang,
I walk with the Wu-Tang.
Robert Fitzgerald Diggs
Achozen
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Some guy was just like, 'You rap fast, man. Like a little machine gun,' and from that moment, I was Lil Uzi.
Lil Uzi Vert
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Rap music is really good when you're traumatized.
Kim Gordon
Sonic Youth
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Being known as a writer did change the relationships I had with directors. The rap on actors is that they always want to inflate their parts. But when directors know you write screenplays and have a different view of things, you really get invited into the huddle in a much fuller way. And those collaborations end in friendships.
Matt Damon
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The poor get worked, the rich get richer,
Jean-Jacques Cadet
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What I see, what I went through, what a friend of mine may have went through, whatever - I rap about it.
Kevin Gates
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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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When I found Freestyle Fellowship, I started getting into the construction of rap. You get better at it the more you do it; you figure out the science and the math behind it.
Chance The Rapper
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If you ain't using all the talents God provided you with
For the betterment of Man, understand,
You ain't nothing but a waste.
Talib Kweli
Black Star
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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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Sometimes I feel like rap music is almost the key to stopping racism.
Marshall Bruce Mathers III
Bad Meets Evil'
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Ayo, shout out to Mobb Deep, the Extra P
Busta Rhymes, De La, the J Beez, so don't sleep
Kamaal Ibn John Fareed
A Tribe Called Quest
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You have film actors doing TV, rap stars doing TV, with everyone kind of crossing the line.
Anthony Michael Hall
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I think that rap is narrative, when it's done right.
Ajay Naidu
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I started singing to this one John Legend record; it was called 'Each Day Gets Better,' or something like that. I started to realize, 'Wow, I really sound like this dude. If I keep doing this, maybe I can sound dope like John Legend and still rap.'
Daystar Peterson
