Rap Quotes
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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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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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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 think America has a bad rap right now... and hopefully Obama will change that.
Joan Cusack
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My iPod will shuffle from rap to pop to rock to classical ... It gets confusing!
Manika
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I like all types of music. Even though rap music is 80 percent of what I listen to, it's not the only thing I listen to.
Jaden Smith
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Back in the days when I was a teenager, Before I had status and before I had a pager, You could find The Abstract listening to hip-hop, My pops used to say, it reminded him of be-bop, I said, well daddy don't you know that things go in cycles, The way that Bobby Brown is just ampin' like Michael, It's all expected, things are for the lookin', If you got the money, Quest is for the bookin'...
Kamaal Ibn John Fareed A Tribe Called Quest
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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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I'm 83 years old. Rock music I understand. Rap music I'm just about to understand. But you guys I will never understand. What were you as kids?
Carl Reiner
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I still wanna rap better than everybody else, and I wanna say important things.
J. Cole
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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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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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I really didn't want to rap; I was just a regular kid.
Lil Uzi Vert
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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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I don't just listen to rap.
Kevin Gates
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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 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 never liked socially conscious rap. I like rap that's physical, that's about a beat and bass and repetition.
Harmony Korine
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Why do I need I.D. to get I.D.? If I had I.D. I wouldn't need I.D.
Yasiin Bey Black Star
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Hip-hop is when you have crowd participation; when you chant at the audience and they chant back at you; when you wave your hands in the air like you just don't care; or some breakdancing. Everything today is just low-beat, real bass-y, bass-y, good rap records.
Flavor Flav
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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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Infrareds on little people standing with some big heads, I was Captain Kirk, walkin' with a black t-shirt. LAPD, the nurse asked did my knee hurt? I was in pain, little Martians tryin' ta take my brain, Hospitals came, detectives wrote down my name. I was to blame, my life never been the same. A true story; I tell ya, it'll never bore me. My classmate died, my other friend named Cory Drinkin' 40s, he jumped out the project window, Stabbed himself with a yellow number 2 pencil.
Keith Matthew Thornton
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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