Rap Quotes

They don't want to see rap music. They don't want to see the Beastie Boys. They don't care what we're doing. They want one thing and one thing only: that's to see Madonna come on stage.

Growing up listening to rap music, you almost feel like you should have haters. That's an important part of being a successful musician. It's a good thing, I guess.

I never really thought I was going to be a singer, honestly. I never listened to singers; I always listened to rap music.

With rap music, there are billions and billions of samples that are uncleared that people have never been bothered about on an underground level.

Rap music came along and saved my life. I started to tell the stories of the streets and that was my way out.

My brother's been producing rap music and hip-hop for maybe 10 years.

When I get up I still check the rap blogs before I check any kind of dance stuff.

King Of The Dot is huge; battle rap is huge right now. My first battle that I went to was King Of The Dot - shout out to Lush One.

I think that rap is narrative, when it's done right.

The beats are like scripts, and the raps are my monologue.

Rap is poetry set to music. But to me it's like a jackhammer.

We missed a lot of church, so the music is our confessional.

The biggest rap on me is that I don't find a Watergate every couple of years. Well, Watergate was unique. It's not something Carl Bernstein, I, or the Washington Post caused.

The mind tricks the body, Body thinks the mind is crazy.

Busta Rhymes the mighty infamous, Always misbehaving and mischeivous, Causing aggravation, I'll never pause, Pushing out spit balls through plastic straws.

I will endanger your species like an ostrich, Hold you hostage, and crazy feed you swine sausage!

T to the R-uh-O-Y, how did you and I meet? In front of Big Lou's, fighting in the street But only you saw what took many time to see I dedicate this to you for believing in me.

I stay dipped like the first day of school.

I hadn't really thought about the kind of music I wanted to make. I was just making raps and stuff. I thought that was the coolest thing in the world.

I'm a rap comedian the same way Bill Cosby is a jazz comedian, Cosby's laid back. I'm like, bang, bang bang, right into it.

Burn, Hollywood, burn, I smell a riot goin' on, First they're guilty, now they're gone!

Even through the unseen, I know that God watches, From one King's dream, he was able to Barack us.

Burn a Bush cause for peace he no push no button. Killing over oil and grease, no weapons of destruction, How can we follow a leader when this a corrupt one?

If rhyme is a crime, my mic is my co-defendant.

Soup's on and I got a coupon. Chinese restaurant asking for the Grey Poupon. He said "No, duck sauce, soy sauce... And this ain't no Burger King, so you no get no toy, boss."

It's important to practice good hygiene, At least if you wanna run with my team.

I understand what rappers are talking about. I think rap is less about educating people about the black community and more about making money.

I feel like there's a lot of rappers that could out-rap me and I wouldn't want to face any of them.

There were people who incorporated melody before me, but I would deem myself the first person to successfully rap and sing.

Without me, rap is just a bunch of orphans.

Move over just a bit to the right of me, For I cannot see Where the booty is.

I want to keep making records as long as I can, but I don't know how long you can be taken seriously in rap.

They said I rap like a robot, so call me rapbot.

Ain't nothin' but a whole lot of suckin' goin' on in rap.

The employees of the year, yeah we back to work. I took time off, while other rappers got jerked.

There are many collaborations I'd like to explore. One is to co-write a rap concerto with Eminem.

Ya see I'm Irish, but I'm not a leprechaun. You wanna fight, then step up and we'll get it on!

I can't relate to livin' less than great.

Stop tryin to be loud as me, cause you can't do that, Think about it...playing Russian roulette with an automatic!

The first rap record came out in '79, but hip-hop began in '69.

Lyrics are weak, like clock radio speakers.

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.

You ask me, "Did I like Arsenio?" About as much as the Bicentennial.

Rapping is talking and communicating, and that's always good.

I don't have to put out another rap record. I can do it at my casual pace.

I want to be able to say that a rap career could be ten albums.

As long as I'm around the cats in the hip hop scene, they'll throw me a track and I'll write a rap over it.

Well I'm a sire, I set the microphone on fire, Rap styles vary, and carry like Mariah

Cough up a lung where I'm from marcy son, aint nothin nice

I love doing the music. I love programming beats and kind of working on the music as much, if not more, than the actual rapping.