Rap Quotes
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N.W.A. were the first great rap audio documentarians of the problems in our inner cities.
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Don't add an eezy to my name, 'cause it has never been that'
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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.
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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.
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There's so many gay rappers... They probably dis me cause I'm the straight one.
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Clearly, everybody knows I can rap; I can freestyle all day.
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I'm from Jerz, the home of: "I could've swore I parked my car right here!"
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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.
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If you're going to point out the ridiculousness of a rule, it's naïve to think that you can break it. It's the same way that rappers have embraced capitalism. Some people say they liked it better when rap was a literal protest form in the '90s. But I think it's more a form of protest today, because it's telling the story of what happens once something forbidden is within reach. I think rap is more political today when it speaks about luxury watches than it does about fighting the power.
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I think there's a lot of, unfortunately, unfunny ventriloquists out there, so they've got a bad rap. It came after Edgar Bergen because everybody had a little cheeky boy dummy like Charlie McCarthy, and everybody decided to become a ventriloquist because Bergen had popularized it. He brought it back from the doldrums of vaudeville.
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David Bowie's my favorite musician. I love him above all, but I'm really into rap a lot right now.
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The power of the voice in rap is about the expression of truth, rather than the expression of some kind of artifice.
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There's not too many one-producer rap albums. There are lot of one-producer rock albums... and country albums.
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I hate rap! Can I say that?
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Rap is just to me very annoying.
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The power of the voice in rap is about the expression of truth, rather than the expression of some kind of artifice. Landays, they're about love and pleasure and oppression and levels of oppression within a family. And because of that, I think rap music is probably closely related.
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I've always been noted for being original and doing different thing. So for me to hop on the train that's going on would be - shoot, if I wanted to hop on the train, I might as well have hopped on gangsta rap back when it was popular and tried to do that.
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What I'm trying to do is break the genre from what is rap and what is music.
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I love rapping. I do. My styling's similar to Missy Elliott - I think she's so dope. In a weird way, that's how I first learned the American accent: doing American rap songs.
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But I still rap like I'm on my Pharoahe Monch grind.
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It's hard to find rap that I love, you know. I'm one of those rapping a** rappers, but I just fall into a different category because I'm giving the people what they want.
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I think that all journalists, specifically print journalists, have a responsibility to educate the public. When you handle a culture's intellectual property, like journalists do, you have a responsibility not to tear it down, but to raise it up. The depiction of rap and of hip-hop culture in the media, I think, is one that needs more of a responsible approach from journalists.
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My girlfriend is rap. Music and albums and records and my kids.
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I represent where them killers at 145th and Broadway you get your head cracked
