Rap Quotes
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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.
Bun B
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I'm from Jerz, the home of: "I could've swore I parked my car right here!"
Chino XL
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Rap music was and is, for me, everything.
Jason Reynolds
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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.
Chilly Gonzales
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Don't add an eezy to my name, 'cause it has never been that'
Donald Glover
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What I'm trying to do is break the genre from what is rap and what is music.
Wyclef Jean Fugees
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I'm certainly not a f**king fashion consultant. Don't call me if you want to know how to dress. I just rap. That's all I really know how to do.
Marshall Bruce Mathers III Bad Meets Evil'
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There's not too many one-producer rap albums. There are lot of one-producer rock albums... and country albums.
Ernest Dion Wilson
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I hate rap! Can I say that?
Chris Kaman
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There's so many gay rappers... They probably dis me cause I'm the straight one.
Chino XL
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My girlfriend is rap. Music and albums and records and my kids.
Mystikal
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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.
Eliza Griswold
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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.
Will Ferrell
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Take a look at the police and how they treat you, Take a look at these corporations that cheat you. Democrats and Republicans are all see-through. Now we votin for the lesser of two evils... Man, don't let 'em deceive you. This is an autocracy, not a democracy, But to call this a democracy without mock interest In the laws of society? That's called hypocrisy.
Lawrence "Kris" Parker Boogie Down Productions
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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.
Lawrence "Kris" Parker Boogie Down Productions
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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'
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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.
Eliza Griswold
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But I still rap like I'm on my Pharoahe Monch grind.
Marshall Bruce Mathers III Bad Meets Evil'
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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.
Ethan Suplee
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Rap is just to me very annoying.
James Hetfield Metallica
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Reality does get a bad rap. But I'm not concerned about it 'cause I know who I am. They can edit it, but you are in charge of what you do.
Niecy Nash
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Clearly, everybody knows I can rap; I can freestyle all day.
Nick Cannon
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No, I can't do rap music...
Dolly Parton
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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.
Jeff Dunham