Rap Quotes
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I'm puttin' pressure on you kids like I'm a soccer mom.
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You don't get another chance, life is no Nintendo game.
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In the early '80s, it was hard to find celebrities you can identify with if you lived in the hood. There weren't any rap videos at the time.
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It's difficult to wear such high Louboutins and also freestyle rap.
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We listen to the greats. I'm not going to listen to average rap when I can listen to an Outkast album.
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I've probably wanted to be a rapper since I was a teenager. I was an actor and comedian and stuff, but I always wanted to rap, it was another outlet.
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When it comes to love, maturity often gets a bad rap - second love is boring; it's practical. It's what our parents feel for each other.
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When I met you it was magic... We polar opposites, but attracted like we was magnets.
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How far must you go to gain respect? Um... Well, it's kind of simple: just remain your own. Or you'll be crazy sad and alone.
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Footballs, basketballs, microphones, gas and grass...
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Rap has been a path between cultures in the best tradition of popular music.
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You have film actors doing TV, rap stars doing TV, with everyone kind of crossing the line.
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You know that I can make hits. You know I can do all these rap records.
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I'm pain in the spoken form;
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I don't want to rap about my car. How generic is that? Be creative.
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To me, that's the biggest problem with hip-hop today is the fact that everyone believes that all of hip-hop is rap music, and that, when you say "hip-hop," it's synonymous with rap. That when you say "hip-hop," you should be thinking about breakdancing, graffiti art, or MCing - which is the proper name for rap - DJing, beat-boxing, language, fashion, knowledge, trade. You should be thinking about a culture when you say, "hip-hop.".
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I looked at the rap community like street kids wanting their own brand. But now I look at that period with the rappers in the 90s as a trend of the moment. What it taught me was never to follow a trend, because trends move on.
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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.
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You can see the weakness of a man right through his iris.
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In my mind, New York was the place where they had the underground rap shows and I could get in on some ciphers and just rap. This whole fantasy world I had created in my head about New York just from listening to the music my whole life, like, I'ma go up there and do that. But when I came up here, there was none of that, that scene was dead.
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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.
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Who knows but we may count among our intellectual chickens
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I keep it wrapped until i meet the right one 'Cause I ain't Mumford, I ain't trying to have sons
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If I should die this very day, Don't cry...cause on Earth We wasn't meant to stay.
