Rap Quotes
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If I'm boxing, I'll probably have rap on, or something a little more angry. If I'm lifting, maybe some rock 'n' roll. If I'm doing some cardio, something fast paced.
Steven R. McQueen
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I grew up with park jams. That's how I knew about rap... The local MCs would grab the mic and start rapping. I just used to be so in awe and fascinated and like, 'Wow, this is amazing!' But I would never, ever touch the mic. Heck no.
Pepa
DJ Spinderella
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Why give you the cure when the disease makes money?
Talib Kweli
Black Star
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Complainin' to my lawyer how this rookie tried to frisk me...
Jealous of my jeep, I gave his badge to the chief,
And got his ass directin' traffic in the heat for a week.
Robert Fitzgerald Diggs
Achozen
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I think self-destructiveness is given a really bad rap. I think it can also mean self-reflection and poetic sensiblity. It can mean empathy, hedonism, a libertarianism.
Courtney Love
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I had a cigarette for breakfast, just for beginners,
Cried for my lunch, and sleep for dinner.
G. Dep
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They use the simple back and forth, the same, old rhythm That a baby can pick up, and join, right with 'em. But their rhymes are pathetic, they think they copacetic Using nursery terms, at least not poetic.
Keith Matthew Thornton
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Rock 'n' roll is sexuality personified. It is attitude. It is all the things that your parents told you not to do. It's the freedom to express yourself. It's being alive. It expresses the times. It's a magazine, a newspaper that tells the truth. If you listen to rap today, it's all about the truth. And that's what we all want. Just give me a little truth.
Steven Tyler
Aerosmith
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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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Now who is the king of these lewd, ludicrous, lucrative lyrics; who could inherit the title, to put the youth in hysterics; using his music as spirit
Marshall Bruce Mathers III
Bad Meets Evil'
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Stop screamin', you know the demon said it's best to die, And even if Jehovah witness, bet he'll never testify, D'Evils.
Jay-Z
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Lessons cut short to prep for tests that only test how well you prep.
Jean-Jacques Cadet
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This thing called rhymin' is no different than coal minin';
We both on assignment to unearth the diamond.
Yasiin Bey
Black Star
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There is rap music in all my films. In 'La Vie des Morts,' there is rap music too. It's because I'm French, and when it appeared in 1978, it was so new, it set off my musical imagination.
Arnaud Desplechin
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Every night I pray to God: 'Please, no more wack MC's.'
James Anthony Robinson
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It's important for me to try to find new ways to express myself, but at the same time, have integrity, and still be me, and not lose myself in the midst of this crazy Rap that I'm in. It's important, it's critical, to just try things out. I think, mainly, it's just me being fearless, and not being afraid to conquer anything that comes in my path, I guess.
Santiago Leyva
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I think that rap is narrative, when it's done right.
Ajay Naidu
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I think rap in general allows you to be more lyrically expressive. It's a lot easier to state your identity, as opposed to with a guitar making all these weird metaphors.
Nora Lum
