Rap Quotes
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You don't get another chance, life is no Nintendo game.
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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.
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A lot of the stuff I've accumulated over the last few years of touring I thought was really interesting. Like sounds, sound bites, and beats even, but they weren't good dance beats they weren't ones anyone would want to rap over or anything.
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There's so many gay rappers... They probably dis me cause I'm the straight one.
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You may be gone but you're never over.
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But I still rap like I'm on my Pharoahe Monch grind.
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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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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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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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My girlfriend is rap. Music and albums and records and my kids.
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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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I'm from Jerz, the home of: "I could've swore I parked my car right here!"
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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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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 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 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.
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Aiyyo, camoflouge chameleon, ninjas scalin' your building, No time to grab the gun, I already got your wife and children
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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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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.
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As far as anybody in the rap game ever tryin to assassinate my character, thats impossible. You talkin about a man who has always walked the walk and talked the talk.
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I represent where them killers at 145th and Broadway you get your head cracked
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What I'm trying to do is break the genre from what is rap and what is music.
