Rap Quotes

• 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
  • People
  • Music
  • Rap

• I went to jail at 17. While I was there, I discovered that I could write. Once I started making some songs, other inmates wanted to know a little bit more about what I was doing, and they asked me to rap for them. They really liked it, and I made it a goal to come out and try to make something out of the music.

  

  Jay IDK
  • Music
  • Rap

• 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
  • Up
  • Thinking
  • Simple

• 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
  • Music
  • Rap

• 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
  • Bad
  • Reflection
  • Empathy

• When I met you it was magic... We polar opposites, but attracted like we was magnets.

  

  Talib Kweli Black Star
  • Magic
  • Hip Hop
  • Mets

• 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
  • Up
  • Amazing
  • Rap

• Rap music was a savior to me.

  

  Jason Reynolds
  • Music
  • Rap

• When I'm writing, I'm thinking about how the songs are going to play live. Fifty bars of rap don't translate onstage. No matter how potent the music, you lose the crowd. They want a hook; they want to sing your stuff back to you.

  

  Drake
  • Music
  • Thinking
  • Writing

• I got a funny feeling like something was real wrong... Looked at her shoes and her feets was real long! Then it hit me, Oh please God no, Don't let this ho turn out to be a John Doe... He pulled a fast one on me, yo!

  

  Derrick Lemel Stewart
  • Long
  • Real
  • Feelings

• I'm already popular in my city. I was just trying to get rich. Man, I'm not gonna lie to you; I didn't really want to go back to school. I mean, my family was mad about that. Because, you know, you tell your family you want to rap, and they look at you like you're crazy.

  

  Lil Uzi Vert
  • Trying
  • Family
  • School

• 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
  • Thinking
  • Soul
  • Culture

• When I rap, I get to express myself in a way where putting words together is like poetry, and sometimes it's better to talk in certain expressions than sing, you know? So I love, I love to rhyme when I want to express certain things.

  

  Wyclef Jean Fugees
  • Poetry
  • I Love
  • Sing

• Rap in general has never been my steez, but I like it.

  

  Kesha
  • Rap

• 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
  • May
  • Cool
  • Rap

• I've listened to Eminem rap. That's not daily fare for me, but I can't help but admire how vivid what he does is. My own taste goes a little more toward Norah Jones.

  

  Lesley Gore
  • Help
  • Daily
  • Rap

• To me, the whole thing with the roots of rap music was when the DJ had to supply all the music for the group with two turntables. And the whole criteria of what that DJ would use had nothing to do with what type of band made a record.

  

  Mike D The Beastie Boys
  • Music
  • Band
  • Rap

• When Elton John sang a duet with the white rapper Eminem on a Grammy telecast, rap went mainstream. Massive parental headaches followed.

  

  Bill O'Reilly
  • Rap

• We listen to the greats. I'm not going to listen to average rap when I can listen to an Outkast album.

  

  Eyedea
  • Rap
  • Average
  • Greats

• People are taking a second look at Compton or rethinking what they believed to be true. Even the rap stars who helped established Compton's reputation worldwide are older now, and even their images have evolved.

  

  Aja Brown
  • People
  • True
  • Rap

• Be a king? Think not. Why be a king when you can be a God?

  

  Marshall Bruce Mathers III Bad Meets Evil'
  • Thinking
  • Rap

• Well I'm not just gon' go and do rap songs. I wanna touch, and maybe help, and see what I can do in these areas.' As I start looking around me, looking at things in ways that I can become helpful, starting at the first thing, water. Something as simple as water.

  

  Jay-Z
  • Help
  • Song
  • Simple

• You know that I can make hits. You know I can do all these rap records.

  

  Future
  • Rap

• I'm pain in the spoken form;

  

  Ka
  • Pain
  • Rap
  • Hip Hop

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