Rap Quotes
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Around the middle of last year I started listening to a lot of rap, like Nicki Minaj and Drake. They all sing about such opulence, stuff that just didn't relate to me-or anyone that I knew. I began thinking, 'How are we listening to this? It's completely irrelevant'.
Lorde
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My main influence is Kool G Rap and Cam'ron, pretty much. If you were to mix those two people up, I wish that would be me... This is my voice. I sound like nobody; I sound like me.
Action Bronson
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I have considered rap music stars, and there is one in my new book, Lovers and Players, and there is also a hip-hop music mogul who I think you will like a lot.
Jackie Collins
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Rap - so many words, so little said. What rap did that was impressive was to show there are so many tone-deaf people out there. All they need is a drum beat and somebody yelling over it and they're happy. There’s an enormous market for people who can't tell one note from another.
Keith Richards
The Rolling Stones
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I really didn't want to rap; I was just a regular kid.
Lil Uzi Vert
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If, after obtaining Buddhahood, anyone in my land gets tossed in jail on a vagrancy rap, may I not attain highest perfect enlightenment.
Gary Snyder
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Money is important in the rap industry because you're always rapping to be bigger than the other person - bigger than who you're rapping to. A lot of my music is really, really, really humbled down. I don't have as much money as the average rapper, but I'm still good.
Russell Llantino
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I still wanna rap better than everybody else, and I wanna say important things.
J. Cole
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I write songs as honestly as I can without worrying about genres or labels. Sometimes I sing, and sometimes I rap, and sometimes I do something in between. I jump around on stage and don't care too much about how I look. I try to be myself even though I'm still figuring myself out.
K. Flay
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In 7th grade, I believe, I wrote my first rap song. It was about everything I was seeing, everything that was going on around me.
Kevin Gates
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You know, most people called rap stupid when it started, and it was one of the most innovative music forms of its time.
Dan Deacon
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You got a man? That's somethin we will talk about.
He's smart enough to have ya, but dumb enough to let ya out.
LL Cool J
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We got to mediate our greedy levels,
Cause the lust of currency can have us sleepin with the devil.
Kamaal Ibn John Fareed
A Tribe Called Quest
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I am obsessed with rap music - it's such a big part of my life.
Randall Park
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Die Antwoord will be presented to the world as a wild and savage rap crew from the deep, dark depths of Africa.
Watkin Tudor Jones
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I don't listen to much rap, really. I can rarely listen to a whole record of it, because musically, it's very formulaic, and oftentimes it doesn't have the best hooks on every track.
Nellie McKay
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Some of the hip-hop stuff people get into is exciting, because there's a passion and there's something to explain to a more mainstream audience, so you get these passionate writers who want to express their love for rap and hip-hop, which is cool.
Cameron Crowe
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Back in the day, if someone said that hip hop and rap was a fad, that was a joke to me because they just didn't know what they were talking about. In reality, there were so many people who didn't know what they were talking about it.
Jam Master Jay
