Rap Quotes
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Your mom's in our business...she's in our business...
Kevin Madison
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For underground metaphors, you can scrape an inch below the turf. For what it's worth, my style's been developed in the core of the Earth. The exhale's volcanic, the inhale is seismic.
Jean-Jacques Cadet
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By no means am I excusing homophobic rap lyrics, but as a product of the same environments that birthed hip-hop, I fully understand why those lyrics existed.
Karamo Brown
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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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I'm cold gettin' paid cause Rick said so.
LL Cool J
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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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We want to challenge Marilyn Manson and the rap people with the bad lyrics to write some positive songs.
Gary Rossington Lynyrd Skynyrd
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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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A lot of the rap shows I saw as a kid were boring, but if you went to a Rage show or a Justice show, the kids were losing their minds.
Donald Glover
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I think that hip-hop is more of an individual effort. That means you're an artist from the streets, they expect you to rap about the streets, because that's what happens there.
Conor Oberst Bright Eyes
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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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Yo Premier, why these rappers so soft? They corny ass raps be makin me doze off.
Lawrence "Kris" Parker Boogie Down Productions
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You grow up listening to Eminem; your parents don't let you listen to it - you gotta sneak into a car to listen to this guy rap. He changed my whole life, my whole perspective on music, so to more or less co-sign something that I've done is the ultimate childhood goal.
Jon Bellion
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I tried to make a 'When Doves Cry' in a rap version. I used a lot of instruments and I broke it down like I thought Prince would do, and that's the song I sent to Big Boi.
Evan Ingersoll
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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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I can drink a whole Hennessy fifth.
Alvin Nathaniel Joiner
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I used to rap as a kid and people were impressed by it, so it gave me the drive to keep going. Everybody has at least one talent. I guess this is my talent.
Daniel Dewan Sewell
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When you talk about rap you have to understand that rap is part of the Hip-Hop culture.
Afrika Bambaataa
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Anything that's of any use, famous people get hold of it and take it for themselves and it gets a bad rap.
Noel Gallagher Oasis
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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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Rap music is really good when you're traumatized.
Kim Gordon Sonic Youth
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Crack mothers, crack babies and AIDS patients Youngbloods can't spell, but they could rock you in PlayStation.
Yasiin Bey Black Star
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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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My focus is anything that allows me to express myself. Rap, dance, photography. Those are my forms of expression.
Keith Stanfield