Rap Quotes
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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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Usually when I make a record, I know what the potential is going to be, but I didn't know that 'Just A Friend' was going to be that big. 'Just A Friend' opened a world up where I never knew the difference between being a pop star and a regular rap star. It was crazy.
Marcel Theo Hall
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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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Ignorance is a poison and knowledge will nourish.
Lawrence "Kris" Parker
Boogie Down Productions
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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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I was, like, in a rap gang. I loved rap, and it was all around me.
Watkin Tudor Jones
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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
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I used to be the class clown. I was the funny kid. That's why it was so hard for people to understand that I rap, because for a long time, they didn't take me seriously for who I was. By, like, eighth grade, I was really rapping.
Chance The Rapper
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I'll dance to anything: Bob Marley or rap.
Francesca Annis
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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.
LL Cool J
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My formative years were in Houston. I was in middle school, and everyone was dropping the last half of their names and adding an 'o' to the end. My little crew that I had, we were an all-female rap group, and everyone had an 'o' at the end of their name. I was Lisso. Then this dude started getting lazy with it, saying Lizzo.
Lizzo
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I didn't realize how much harm I was doing back then and I think a lot of rap artists probably don't realize it now. I said a lot of stuff fooling around back then, and I saw it do a lot of harm.
Adam Yauch
The Beastie Boys
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I love rap, and I try to write a bit like a rapper, to have a flow.
Jess Glynne
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If you feel that you can just come in the studio and freestyle on my song, then I'm ready to rap battle you. That's just how I feel about it because I know I'm way harder than another rapper freestyling on my song.
Young Thug
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You know, rap is sort of like a form of talking, right? So it's like you can hear, you know, the slaves doing it. You can hear, like, you know, Africans and Jamaicans doing it just kind of as, like, a rhythmic, poetic conversation, you know, to a rhythm.
Nas
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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.
Benjamin Hammond "Ben" Haggerty
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I haven't done rap... I can't do that too well.
Douglas Glenn Colvin
Ramones
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I don't make Christian rap, but I am a Christian rapper.
Chance The Rapper
