Rap Quotes

• 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

• ...Cops just surrounding me with pistols everywhere. They put me in the backseat of their car handcuffed, Pushed out them chests like they're big rough and tough. A cop come and said 'You'll never sell your guns now.' I said 'It doesn't matter, you'll sell them anyhow. You take the guns from me, you sell them for a fee; Anyway you put it, they'll get in the city!'

  

  Lawrence "Kris" Parker Boogie Down Productions
  • Car
  • Gun
  • Tough

• You can't write a book if you've never read a book. And if you've read five books and you try to write a book, your book will mainly encompass the themes and the context of the five books you've read. Now, the more books you read, the more you can bring to a book when you decide to write one. So the more rap I learned, the more I was able to bring to rap when I decided to rap. But this was all subconscious.

  

  Bun B
  • Book
  • Rap
  • Five

• 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
  • Writing
  • Inspired
  • Perform

• My kids listen to rap, so I try to keep up with as much as I can.

  

  William Michael Griffin Jr.
  • Kids
  • Rap
  • Listen

• 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
  • Poetry
  • Rhyme
  • Techniques

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

  

  Kesha
  • 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

• 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
  • People
  • Music
  • Trying

• I didn't ever want to make a rap album. I considered it too limiting. Now that's exactly what I've gone and done.

  

  Saul Williams
  • Done
  • Rap
  • Album

• 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
  • Funny
  • English
  • Language

• N.W.A. were the first great rap audio documentarians of the problems in our inner cities.

  

  Jerry Heller
  • Problems
  • Rap
  • Documentarians

• I ain't drop an album since I was 25. I rap way better. I've experienced way more.

  

  Meek Mill
  • Rap

• 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
  • Rap
  • Blessing
  • Share

• Ya see I'm Irish, but I'm not a leprechaun. You wanna fight, then step up and we'll get it on!

  

  Everlast
  • Fighting
  • Rap
  • Hip Hop

• 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
  • Tired
  • Bored
  • Liars

• 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

• 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
  • People
  • Business
  • War

• 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
  • Believe
  • Art
  • Drama

• There were people who incorporated melody before me, but I would deem myself the first person to successfully rap and sing.

  

  Drake
  • People
  • Rap

• 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
  • Music
  • Rap
  • Record

• Don't add an eezy to my name, 'cause it has never been that'

  

  Donald Glover
  • Causes
  • Names
  • Add

• Shakespeare's gone, don't even think about it.

  

  Keith Matthew Thornton
  • Thinking
  • Hip Hop
  • Gone

• His palms are sweaty, knees weak, arms are heavy There's vomit on his sweater already, mom's spaghetti He's nervous, but on the surface he looks calm and ready To drop bombs, but he keeps on forgettin' What he wrote down, the whole crowd goes so loud He opens his mouth, but the words won't come out He's chokin', how, everybody's jokin' now The clocks run out, times up, over, blaow!

  

  Marshall Bruce Mathers III Bad Meets Evil'
  • Running
  • Forget
  • Calm

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