Rap Quotes
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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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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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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 was, like, in a rap gang. I loved rap, and it was all around me.
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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 was a metalhead and then I was into the rap and then I was a metalhead again.
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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 named them: hustlers, killers, fiends, ex-cons.
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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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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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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 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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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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When I was in south Sudan, people used to rap in my village. But the rapping was more in the mother tongue, Nuer.
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The rap scene is so unique. Every rapper has to bring their own thing.
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With rap, it's a funny thing. You can say things, and people can take 'em the way they wanna take 'em.
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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.
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So pay attention, it's not hard to decipher, And after the horns, you can check out the Phifer
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Nobody wants to hear me rap.
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I'm not turning my back on music anytime soon, but it's just a blessing to have options open. A lot of artists just have rap, and that's it. But once rap stops, it's hard to get into that Hollywood circle; it really is. It's a whole 'nother beast that people think they're ready for, but they're really not.
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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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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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'Gangsta rap' is a derogatory label.
