Rap Quotes
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Rap isn't poetry, not least because it involves music and often other elements that aren't words. But the way poets in English use things like rhyme and meter, and the ways these conventions both do and don't apply to rap we try to lay out the rules for rap, in order to understand the techniques that artists like Jay-Z and Kanye employ.
Andrew Hoberek -
My music is airy; it's spacious. It requires you to be able to rap and articulate your message over it. That's what the beat demands of you. Not a lot of people try to rap over my beats because it's a bit of a task.
Terrence LeVarr Thornton
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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 -
It seems like music gets put in this hub where you have to rap about this, and the minute you do something else, it's like you changing. Nah, I'm being creative.
Justin Scott -
The perpetuation of gangster rap has really put a negative image on the city of Compton... So I look forward to addressing that image, changing it and making it more accurate.
Aja Brown -
I ain't drop an album since I was 25. I rap way better. I've experienced way more.
Meek Mill -
I was reading a lot of European history, and I thought Attila the Hun had gotten a bad rap.
Katherine Dunn -
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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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 -
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 -
I was 14 years old when I started rapping and I was terrible. I fell in love with it though and when that happens with me I become super passionate and go all the way with it.
G-Eazy -
Shakespeare's gone, don't even think about it.
Keith Matthew Thornton -
I keep it wrapped until i meet the right one 'Cause I ain't Mumford, I ain't trying to have sons
Donald Glover -
The majority of people, especially young people, know Dr. Dre because of Beats by Dre, not necessarily from him being a rap artist.
Aja Brown
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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 -
I think that all journalists, specifically print journalists, have a responsibility to educate the public. When you handle a culture's intellectual property, like journalists do, you have a responsibility not to tear it down, but to raise it up. The depiction of rap and of hip-hop culture in the media is one that needs more of a responsible approach from journalists. We need more 30-year-old journalists. We need more journalists who have children, who have families and wives or husbands, those kinds of journalists. And then you'll get a different depiction of hip-hop and rap music.
Lawrence "Kris" Parker Boogie Down Productions -
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 -
Rap is something you do Hip Hop is something you live
Lawrence "Kris" Parker Boogie Down Productions -
I love folk. I love rap.
SZA -
If I should die this very day, Don't cry...cause on Earth We wasn't meant to stay.
Whitney Houston
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Why give you the cure when the disease makes money?
Talib Kweli Black Star -
When I met you it was magic... We polar opposites, but attracted like we was magnets.
Talib Kweli Black Star -
I think that hip-hop should be spelled with a capital "H," and as one word. It's the name of the culture, and it's the name of the identity and consciousness. I think hip-hop is not a product, but a culture. I think rap is a product, but when hip-hop becomes a product, that's slavery, because you're talking about people's souls.
Lawrence "Kris" Parker Boogie Down Productions -
I think adidas really understands that it's cool to be in business with the right people. It really feels like a bunch of creative minds rather than some rap guys stamping their names on a sneaker. We're arguing over shoes, ideas, and everything - it's like a tug of war.
Terrence LeVarr Thornton