Rap Quotes
You pout like a trout in a drought...can't get out. You want to scream, but fish can't shout.
On the reals, all these crab niggaz know the deal, When we start the revolution, all they'll probably do is squeal.
I write pop songs. But I think it is sprinkled with a lot of counter-culture references. It ranged from rap to hip hop to trip hop, house, drum and bass, and experimental and improv and jazz.
If we but give it time, a work of art 'can rap and knock and enter our souls' and re-align us - all our molecules - to make us whole again.
I feel like when I'm writing for other people, when I'm doing rap hooks, it's kinda like playing dress up for me...
On the square...I'm not riffin' like Andy Griffith, Just fed up, goin' head up, with competition.
Everything has a price... No matter if it's fortune, fame or your life. I understood later that it's all about paper, Everything has a fee in the land of the free.
True originator, innovator and creator, Thinkin' independent but I'm sayin' something major.
So many programs you watch on the sofa, But the real program sit on top of your shoulders.
We in the 25th hour, It's now or never. We gotta get it 'fore it's gone forever. In the end, time waits for no man... What's your plan?
A born terror, a rebel without a pause... Ain't never had a good Christmas, so who is Santa Claus?
Nowadays, you gots ta walk the street and watch your back, Cause brothers with the gats don't be knowin' how to act.
There's so much that I want to do. I feel like I'm the Magic Johnson of rap. You know, Magic was great on the basketball court, but he's bigger as a businessman.
If I'm boxing, I'll probably have rap on, or something a little more angry. If I'm lifting, maybe some rock 'n' roll. If I'm doing some cardio, something fast paced.
I wish I was a rapper. There are certainly times when I wish I could just drop an album and channel all my ideas, anger, humor and energy into some music and be done with it.
Everybody raps. We rap to make money. We do business. Ain't no other record company out there that sold as many records as we did.
How could you do me like that I took ya family in put some cash in ya pocket made you a man again
You're not going to hear me do a rap song, you're not going to hear me do a jazz song. We have to be true to our roots, do what we do, and try to do it a little better each time.
I jumped up in the bubble, yo kid where are you? (114 between Manhattan and Morningside Avenue) This happened just right out the blue
I believe gangsta rap, as such, in its foundation is simply anti-systemic and transgressive.
Baby, this town rips the bones from our back it's a death trap, it's a suicide rap. We got to get out while we're young.
Nah, I don't really have to spit nothin' too complex, I just rep for my hood, and it sound correct.
There are certain fans who want me to rap about the same exact thing, but it's time to grow up.
People are so confused about race and hip-hop that people didn't even consider the Beastie Boys one of the greatest rap groups of all time because they were white.
Rap is supposed to be about keeping it real and not relinquishing your roots in the community. Without that, it's just posturing. Somebody who claims to speak for the 'hood don't need no private jet.
Will Smith is a funny person, a very likable person, but at the same time he can be serious and really handle his business. I'll stay away from talking about his rapping abilities, though.
You would think I would recycle by the way I found my last chick...cause all she wants is paper or plastic.
I'm rapping in English but in an African way. I'm not trying to sound like an American.
When I was in south Sudan, people used to rap in my village. But the rapping was more in the mother tongue, Nuer.
They smile in my face, behind my back they talk trash, Mad and stuff because they don't have cash.
They tell me 'find God' like I don't know where He at. And if He lost, then why we followin' Him? Just acknowledge the fact that a Father exists, And a Devil's alive...I'm just caught in the mix.
If, after obtaining Buddhahood, anyone in my land gets tossed in jail on a vagrancy rap, may I not attain highest perfect enlightenment.
Before rap came along, I was, actually, actively in the streets; getting in trouble, doing the wrong thing.
For underground metaphors, you can scrape an inch below the turf. For what it's worth, my style's been developed in the core of the Earth. The exhale's volcanic, the inhale is seismic.
The Nets' a stone throw from where I used to throw bricks ...So it's only right I'm still tossing 'round Knicks.