Rap Quotes
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It don't make sense: either you a soldier from the start,
Alvin Nathaniel Joiner
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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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They say that love is powerful as cough syrup and Styrofoam. All I know is I fell asleep and woke up in that Monte Carlo With the ugly Kardashian... Lamar, oh, sorry. Yo, we done both set the bar low.
Marshall Bruce Mathers III Bad Meets Evil'
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I was reading a lot of European history, and I thought Attila the Hun had gotten a bad rap.
Katherine Dunn
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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 could have easily got T-Pain or anybody like that, but let me just get somebody very left. That'll wake them up. Gaga. She's never done a rap record before. Pay attention. It's a method to my madness.
Wale
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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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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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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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know the feelin, when you feelin like a villain, You be havin good thoughts but the evils be revealin'. And the stresses of life can take you off the right path, Jealousy and envy tends to infiltrate your staff... We gotta hold it down so we can move on past All adversities, so we can get through fast.
Kamaal Ibn John Fareed A Tribe Called Quest
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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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I didn't think of rap with that type of south feel and that look and the hay and all that.
Keith Matthew Thornton
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Y'all get crimey crimey, grimy grimy. But those with a tiny hiney thay get whiny whiny
Cam'ron
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By now, you should know what you're getting with Pusha T. I've been in this game since 2002, and my name says it all. You know I'm only moved by a certain style of rap. Not that many other styles move me. You have to really be a rapper's rapper for me to like it.
Terrence LeVarr Thornton
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I think America just needs to get real when it comes to the way our kids speak and communicate. They need to understand what happens in rap.
Kanye West
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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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Moms in fiction and memoir get a bad rap.
Kelly Corrigan
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Your mom's in our business...she's in our business...
Kevin Madison
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If you're true to the upliftment of people and the unity of people, raising the self-worth of people, then you live within your means. But the problem is that we're looking at the grass on the other side, saying, "That's greener. I want to be in the thug market, but I want to be a conscious rap artist." It doesn't work like that.
Lawrence "Kris" Parker Boogie Down Productions
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My life after childhood has two main stories: the story of the hustler and the story of the rapper, and the two overlap as much as they diverge. I was on the streets for more than half of my life from the time I was thirteen years old. People sometimes say that now I'm so far away from that life - now that I've got businesses and Grammys and magazine covers - that I have no right to rap about it. But how distant is the story of your own life ever going to be? The feelings I had during that part of my life were burned into me like a brand. It was life during wartime.
Jay-Z
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I always loved rapping ever since Snoop said "1-2-3-4," I was repeating lines, but I didn't start writing my own lyrics until I was twelve.
Santiago Leyva
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Rap music was a savior to me.
Jason Reynolds
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I like to make music, I like rap music. Even if I'm white, I support that music. If I want to support it or any other white kid wants to support it more power to them.
Robert James Ritchi
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I had a cigarette for breakfast, just for beginners, Cried for my lunch, and sleep for dinner.
G. Dep