Rap Quotes

I don't only like rap music. There's everything from R&B to crazy gangster rap, hip hop... everything! But it all blends together nicely. It's like a magical music rainbow.

There has been an effect of business rap on the output of today's rap music. But I don't think that's the modern day rapper's fault.

Do you see how Jerry Heller made it work? That is how he combined what we did to make the rap music into mass music. That's exactly how it happened.

There are poor white people who hear rap music and feel it is about them, because it is. That's why you have an Eminem and a Bubba Sparxxx and rappers like that.

I think it's a mistake where rap music is these days. It doesn't seem to be able to look out of the ghetto and that's ultimately unfortunate, because it defines our limitations.

The whole world has changed much since the '80's. In the united States, rap music and country music dominate radio and that certainly wasn't the case in the early '80's.

I always did poetry, and [rap music is] pretty much hip-hop melody with poems.

Battle rap is a culture. That's boxing, it's like boxing.

Not even battling but just really known for rapping. Like I had songs up on Soundclick first, take it back.

I was about one drink away from my limit, In came a black dress with a black body in it, She looked so timid, it took me a minute To get her in focus

You're a trivial part in a trivia game. Now what's your aim? A presidential campaign? Like Ross Perot? He lost it though... But he got a billion in tha bank fo' sho'!

We just wanted to get as far away from the rap-rock scene as possible, because its been done and other bands do it better than us anyway.

We just play whatever we're into. For a while there, we weren't listening to too much rap stuff, 'cause there wasn't anything interesting.

De La Soul, from the soul, black medallions, no gold.

I don't care if it's rap, metal, whatever. You still should play Beatles records mixed with Limp Bizkit mixed with Foghat mixed with Creedence Clearwater Revival, stuff like that.

I'm an animal thug, I grew up eatin' animal cookies

[Clowns] gotten a really bad rap in the last few years. People have really given into their own fears and have celebrated their fears in that way. American Horror Story didn't help.

Gangsta rap was a ploy to convince black people to kill each other. Gangsta rap didnt exist.

Science only answers 'How?' Religion only answers 'Why?' The two combined is the true design, So respect to God cause He drew the lines.

Murder isn't a crime when you just killing time.

I live by the beat like you live check to check. If you don't move your feet then I don't eat, So we like neck to neck.

Your white tee, well to me, looks like a nightgown; Make your mama proud, take that thing two sizes down.

The rap game has to save itself. Everybody's saving it. People like Lil Wayne is saving it. He's bringing energy to it.

I'’ve been a Hip-Hop head forever. So when it turned out that we were gonna start getting celebrity guests for every show, I wanted rap guys from the get-go.

Imagine the first time you are about to rap in a studio and you find yourself in a booth with Redman and KRS!

Rap actually took root in the Negro community, and then in the Hispanic community, long before it impacted on the larger American community as a whole.

And when I'm on the microphone you best to wear your sweater, Cause I'm cooler than a polar bear's toenails, Oh hell, there he go again.

What is Kanye West's message? Like most rap, "I am the greatest person ever and you're not." I used to call it affirmative action for the ego.

I got a liberal education. A white guy, rapping as Bugs Bunny, on a quintuple-platinum album.

In my mind, not in real life. My rap name will be Optimus Rhymes. Or the Notorious B.o.B.

I was rapping as a hobby. It was something I did for my friends and just played around on ideas and stuff like that.

I'm actually a huge fan of hip-hop. I like hip-hop music. I love rap. I like cabaret music, as well. I just love live music and bands.

Tell ya mama to stop flirtin' boy, I'm not a good step-pop. I interrupt your little session...and wreck shop.

I got you open like supermarkets!

Not to sound egotistic, but I've gotten kind of good at it. It's something that came naturally to me, but my rapping is rooted in my writing.

I started making music for fun maybe my senior year in college. I started rapping in high school, but it wasn't anything serious.

I grew up in the suburbs and was raised on rap radio, so it took me a long time to stumble upon the acoustic guitar as a resource for anything.

You've got to realize that the world's a test, You can only do your best and let Him do the rest. You've got your life, and got your health, So quit procrastinating and push it yourself.

I wanna lie to you sometimes...but I can't. I wanna tell you that it's all good...but it ain't.

You don't wanna hear the truth, so I'ma lie to you...make it sound fly to you.

It just gets old when you hear a million raps about how many ways I could shoot you.

I try to keep the music fresh in my head. And I don't always listen to rap; I listen to a little bit of everything: R&B, rock.

We loved that form of music. We're all huge rap fans, so we just incorporated it.

I don't like the fact that there are so few women in rap.

I could never rap, personally. I can't even wrap presents.

I hate rap! Can I say that?

If you wanna get away with murder, all you gotta do is shoot somebody in the head and put a demo tape in their pocket! 'This is a rap killing! Let's get outta here!'

Everybody in the '80s, well, we hate rap. Now, the biggest rapper in the world... Eminem. Rap's a black thing.

Excuse us for the news, You might not be amused; But did you know White comes from Black? No need to be confused.

In this lifetime, you got two things: Bad and good, and ain't nothin' in between.