Rap Quotes
-
I don't blame other people for the rap that Christians have. A lot of Christians are just mental. A lot of Christians are more concerned with telling you where you're gonna go when you die than what you can have while you're here.
-
I always wanted the flowiness that hip-hop artists had. I always admired how they rapped so fast, but I never wanted to rap; I wanted to sing the rap.
-
In time, you'll see a thin line between friend and rival.
-
I didn't get into rap to be no lyrical genius. I got into rap to feed my family and help the people in need around me, that's it. A lot of people say, 'Man, Waka Flocka ain't go no lyrics,' so I was like, 'Yeah, you right!'
-
One of the first albums that I remember, rap albums I remember really listening to, was LL Cool J 'Mama Said Knock You Out.'
-
What I'm trying to do is put back into rap music what's missing - which is the good part, the fun part, that party part.
-
The problem is that rap is so often a caricature of its own image. Nobody comes to the table with the seriousness of the effect that it can have; nobody is prepared for that.
-
I don't even listen to rap. My apartment is too nice to listen to rap in.
-
I have to be able to rap. I don't have the look. I don't have the typical slim-dude, fancy-clothes look. That's not me. I have to be able to rap - there is no other choice, or else I get eaten alive.
-
Fuck money. I don't rap for dead presidents; I'd rather see the president dead. It's never been said, but I set precedents.
-
Anyone can rap if you've got brains. So I just went with it.
-
It's funny: I don't listen to too much rap. I don't listen to too much older hip-hop. If I do, it's Ja Rule.
-
Y'all niggas ain't ILL...you're ILLogical.
-
I'm not really into rap.
-
I used to prefer rapping over singing, but now I'm a little 50/50 about it. I like doing both, a lot - equally.
-
To me, rap music is bigger than who's the coolest rapper, the biggest rapper. It's everything about your personality.
-
We're feminists. We're doing something that only guys are expected to do and doin' it right! At our concerts we'll do one hard-core rap song and then do one where we'll be real sexy.
-
I originally wanted to embrace the imagery and forthrightness of rap music. There are some interesting, dynamic voices in rap. But I find most of it irresponsible in its overt violence and commercialization of anger. As artists, we believe we can will action through language. If that's the case, we have to take responsibility for what we say.
-
I like everything that people say. No matter what they say. You gay, you a punk. You got a nice girlfriend, you're ugly, you can't rap, you're the hardest.
-
I just consider myself an artist. I don't really rap. I don't really sing. I just do what I feel is good, and people like it.
-
I think rap music is rap music. I mean, are there heavy writing aspects of it? Absolutely. In a sense, is it poetry? Yeah. I've heard that so much, growing up in a house with poetry. But I think people like to use that as a shortcut for who's good and who's not. It's like the word 'lyrical' - 'lyrical' is the worst word in the entire world.
-
It's a funny thing about rap, that when you say 'I' into the microphone, it's like a public confession. It's very strange.
-
Jersey gets a bad rap. Most people make an assessment of this state on the ride from Newark Airport into Manhattan.
-
If women dabble in rap but they're not rappers, to get from dabbling to doing it is really difficult, confidence-wise.
