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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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My iPod will shuffle from rap to pop to rock to classical ... It gets confusing!
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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'.
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Lil B opened up the floodgates for Odd Future, and now rap has a huge Internet culture.
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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.
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Rap will never be the same as before
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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.
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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.
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I have a very broad demographic, from the 8-year-old who knows every word to 'Ice Ice Baby' and the college kid who grew up on 'Ninja Rap' to the soccer mom and grandparent.
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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.
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I really didn't want to rap; I was just a regular kid.
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I never liked socially conscious rap. I like rap that's physical, that's about a beat and bass and repetition.
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Ignorance is a poison and knowledge will nourish.
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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.
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The most popular rap artists aren't supposed to be rapping about being broke.
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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.
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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.
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I haven't done rap... I can't do that too well.
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My radio, believe me, I like it loud, I'm the man with a box that can rock the crowd. Walkin' down the street, to the hardcore beat While my JVC vibrates the concrete.
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Consciousness rap - a term that I don't think exactly exists but gets thrown around a lot - is not exactly popular.
