Rap Quotes
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You have to come in on a professional level to make it, otherwise you just can't get into rap.
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And when we holdin' a Tec, we put a hole in your neck. Equippin' you with a permanent T-Pain vocal effect.
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I did rap when I was a teenager - started rapping when I was nine, and started singing when I was 20. I kinda sing like a rapper would sing.
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I was a metalhead and then I was into the rap and then I was a metalhead again.
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Single guys get a bad rap.
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I was, like, in a rap gang. I loved rap, and it was all around me.
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I got tired of the Ramones around the time I quit and I really got into rap. I thought it was the new punk rock. LL Cool J was my biggest idol.
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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.
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I just cut songs I love and that represent what I want to say. And if it crosses over, that's very flattering. It's cool to know that with people listening to rock and rap, I'm sitting on their iPods along with that stuff.
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With music, it's a therapy for me. So whatever I'm dealing with at the time, I talk about it when I rap.
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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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One thing rap and rock have in common, a lot of it is focused on negativity. I like dark stuff.
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I loved rap, especially in the early days. But I wasn't trying to shove it down anybody's throats.
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I think Bhutanese food - long dissed by every food writer out there - has gotten a bum rap.
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Rap's conscious response to the poverty and oppression of U.S. blacks is like some hideous parody of sixties black pride.
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RZA is one of the most unique individuals and rap artists that I have worked with.
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One of the things that I'm dying to do is to sing the hook on a big rap song. No one's ever called me to do that.
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I was mostly surprised by the rap artists, actually, that were influenced by Sabbath. That was a surprise. But it's very nice and I'm very honored. It's nice to know after 27 years now that what I said in the first place has stuck, and that was the belief in it.
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I started rapping since, like, 14. But I've been obsessed with rap from when I was 11. I heard 'Baby Don't Cry,' I'll never forget.
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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.
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You named them: hustlers, killers, fiends, ex-cons.
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The rap scene is so unique. Every rapper has to bring their own thing.
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When you've been raised in care, rap music isn't just about guns and sexism. They're talking about real things you can hang on to, problems of identity that you have sympathy with. It's not just about the music, with rap: when I was in care, it meant a whole lot more than that.
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Rap is always evolving. It's easy for the old school to hate the new school, but it's a music that got a little stifled I think, by the Internet a little bit.
