Rap Quotes
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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
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Ya see I'm Irish, but I'm not a leprechaun.
You wanna fight, then step up and we'll get it on!
Everlast
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You gotta get back to your essence,
Use your gifts and share your presence,
Don't count your dollars 'til you count your blessings.
Talib Kweli
Black Star
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I play chess, but my past is checkered,
Ka
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I'm writing songs to perform, to entertain. And when I'm really trying to get inspired, I go backwards, and I just rap.
Mystikal
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I can rap in a London accent, make weird faces, wear spandex, wigs, and black lipstick. I can be more creative than the average male rapper.
Nicki Minaj
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I ain't drop an album since I was 25. I rap way better. I've experienced way more.
Meek Mill
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Which is the other reason hip-hop is controversial: People don't bother trying to get it. The problem isn't in the rap or the rapper or the culture. The problem is that so many people don't even know how to listen to the music.
Jay-Z
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I think it's cool to do stuff in a different language. Basically, I learned English through listening to rap. A lot of people think it's funny. But it's true; I used to try to get the accents.
Wyclef Jean
Fugees
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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
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There were people who incorporated melody before me, but I would deem myself the first person to successfully rap and sing.
Drake
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Are you tired of lyrical liars, passing fliers,
Wannabe MC's, but really good triers,
Tripping over mic cords, getting you bored,
A total fraud, this kind of thing I can't afford!
Lawrence "Kris" Parker
Boogie Down Productions
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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
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N.W.A. were the first great rap audio documentarians of the problems in our inner cities.
Jerry Heller
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I'm a rapper and, obviously, hip hop rap is my main thing. But I also like to dive into different genres and kind of be a bit more experimental and open myself up a bit, whether that's taking influence from jazz or soul or electronic.
Little Simz
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I don't think rap really fits in to 'American Idol' in the sense that I believe rap is an art form in itself more akin to poetry, more akin to drama, if you will.
Nigel Lythgoe
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As I was sitting there, the deejay was playing music and talking over the music, and the kids were going crazy. All of a sudden, something said to me, 'Put something like that on a record, and it will be the biggest thing.' I didn't even know you called it rap.
Sylvia
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This opportunity comes once in a lifetime.
Marshall Bruce Mathers III
Bad Meets Evil'
