Rap Quotes
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Fat Joe ain't out here trying to battle-rap everybody in the world. That's not what I'm about.
Fat Joe
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Whatever I think of, that's what I do. I wake up and think, 'I want to buy a car', I buy a car. I wake up and be like, 'I just want to lay in bed with my girl', I do that. I wake up and want to rap, I rap. So whatever I think of.
Young Thug
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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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Imagine the first time you are about to rap in a studio and you find yourself in a booth with Redman and KRS!
Angie Martinez
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I know a lot of people who enjoy rap music who aren't black. You can't just say it's black music. To segregate films the way Hollywood likes to segregate films, ultimately everyone loses.
F. Gary Gray
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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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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 think young adults get a bad rap for being self-absorbed and self-centered. My experience going around the United States and speaking in schools is that teenagers here are very interested in the fate of their peers around the world.
Patricia McCormick
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I really didn't want to rap; I was just a regular kid.
Lil Uzi Vert
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The most popular rap artists aren't supposed to be rapping about being broke.
Daniel Dewan Sewell
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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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I love Lady Gaga and I love Katy Perry and R&B and rap music... I love big, American pop music.
Florence Welch Florence and the Machine
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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'm at a point where I don't have to wait for the income from the record to survive, so I'm in a comfortable zone, but I'll make rap records as long as I feel I have something to rap about.
Ice T
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If you think about rap and how it has become so much easier to record music and release it, and you think about everyone in the world being a 'rapper' these days, it's so much easier. But it's still as hard as ever to break through and truly be successful in this industry.
G-Eazy
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I open the debate… The 2nd verse of New Slaves is the best rap verse of all time….meaning … OF ALL TIME IN THE HISTORY OF RAP MUSIC, PERIOD
Kanye West
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It just happens to be that people like to associate poetry and rap music. I think that idea is kind of corny.
Thebe Neruda Kgositsile
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We feel we're setting a trend. Other girl groups watch our style and see how we rap. And there are some male rappers I feel we've overthrown.
Pepa DJ Spinderella
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Rap music is just computerised crap. I listen to Top of the Pops and after three songs I feel like killing someone.
George Harrison The Beatles
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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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Everybody in the '80s, well, we hate rap. Now, the biggest rapper in the world... Eminem. Rap's a black thing.
Chubby Checker
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I drop styles on ears...the public bite 'em. Not many went to school, so the dummies wouldn't write 'em. They say, "Yo Keith! You're Kool, you usin' big words!" I went to college, I'm even more stupid, herb.
Keith Matthew Thornton
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I do like alternative rock and rap, but as far as inspirational, then I go full-on orchestra. It fills up your entire being.
Osric Chau
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I instruct you to be the obeyer, A rhythm recipe that you'll savor, Doesn't matter if you're minor or major, Yes, the Tribe of the game, rhythm player, As you inhale like a breath of fresh air
Malik Izaak Taylor A Tribe Called Quest