Rap Quotes

Some people are saying Bill O'Reilly exaggerated his war experience in the 1980s. People became suspicious because O'Reilly said he was injured in the East Coast/West Coast rap wars.

I think that hip-hop is more of an individual effort. That means you're an artist from the streets, they expect you to rap about the streets, because that's what happens there.

That old ball and chain had me chained up for weeks, So of course I'm off the chain as soon as I hit the streets.

I love things that are very broad. I love alternative, rock, hip hop, rap, and I'll go to classical or jazz.

When I got shot I wasn't like 'yes' I got shot, now I can say that in my raps, when I got shot I said 'ouch'.

Rap is just a movement within the larger culture of hip-hop.

I've done movies where I've had to cast actors and teach them to rap, and cast rappers and teach them to act.

By the time I got kicked out of school, I had nothing else to do but rap.

I used to prefer rapping over singing, but now I'm a little 50/50 about it. I like doing both, a lot - equally.

You know, most people called rap stupid when it started, and it was one of the most innovative music forms of its time.

Sometimes I rhyme slow sometimes I rhyme quick, I was on 125 and St.Nick

I left my Phillie at home, Do you have another? I wanna get blunted, my brother.

Now when I have to remember a date, all I have to do is consult my rap sheet.

Single guys get a bad rap.

I couldn't do rap. I was trying. I don't know how. I'm not good enough to know.

I loved rap, especially in the early days. But I wasn't trying to shove it down anybody's throats.

Hip-hop was my first audience - I would rap in the mirror, walk down the street and listen to my Walkman.

I creep like a thief, no doubt the man's swift, I'm more magnificent than Lee Van Cleef

I once lost a bill betting on the Red Sox, ...But that's another topic.

There is no better education than rap battling in terms of performance. It makes you fearless.

I got into music via the competitions; the first time I ever performed was in a kind of rap battle, competing for money.

I don't even think I'm that good at rapping, but I think what makes a great rapper - what CAN make a great rapper - is someone who wants to be better.

I got to keep it tight like seams, Cause ain't no fiends Comin' in between me and my dreams, See what I mean, black?

Me rapping over other people's beats doesn't mean as much as when Lil Wayne does it - no matter how hard I'm going in.

With freestyling it's not about "Say something funny!" That has nothing to do with it. It's about becoming quicker on your feet and knowing that your entire day can go into your rap if you're on it.

It's about finding what's next. I'm hesitant to let people know what producers I'm f---ing with, what I'm rapping about. I'd rather drop that winning hand out of nowhere.

There's two elements to rap: having the thoughts, and then being a great rapper.

I would love to collect art at some point, but I think the whole rap/art world thing is getting kind of corny.

Writing was something I always did but that turned into singing and rapping. That something that came out of my writing.

I was a good student. By 8th grade, you've basically learned everything. By senior year, we was drinking, we was kickin' it, we was rapping. It wasn't really like business, hard work.

I never boned a honey that I didn't like, I never saw a mile that I couldn't hike. I never had a spliff to make me choke, I never had a pocket that was broke.

I drink twenty forties, smoke forty blunts, Say a hundred rhymes, and not sound like you once.

I said, 'Hey', she said, 'Hi.' I said, 'Us', she said, 'Try,' 'And if you're thinkin strictly boots, then I'll say baby, bye bye.'

I feel like science fiction can get a bad rap sometimes because people make something just to throw an alien in it or just to make it weird, and it doesn't really have a story.

Humor is really important to me. All my favorite writers are writers I consider to be funny, including Tolstoy and Dostoevsky, even though that's not necessarily their rap.

The power of the voice in rap is about the expression of truth, rather than the expression of some kind of artifice.

There's no way I can compete with someone who can write rap or rock and roll. Nor do I wish to. But I've always kept up to date with music changes. I worked very hard not to type myself.

I'm certainly not a f**king fashion consultant. Don't call me if you want to know how to dress. I just rap. That's all I really know how to do.

Now who is the king of these lewd, ludicrous, lucrative lyrics; who could inherit the title, to put the youth in hysterics; using his music as spirit

But I still rap like I'm on my Pharoahe Monch grind.

Spit fire from my hammer like I wasn't God's child.

It's hard to find rap that I love, you know. I'm one of those rapping a** rappers, but I just fall into a different category because I'm giving the people what they want.

I use a pick in my hair without force. You use a lawn mower-you got peat moss.

Large Professor, none greater none fresher, Won't fold under pressure...grew up down the road from Fran Drescher.

Why's my name the Large Professor? Cause I milked your cow, in other words I hit your heifer.

I still to this day get the most inspiration from rap lyrics.

Rapping and singing are not two polar opposites. There's so much middle ground. And I think there's a lot of people who find that middle ground.

I always loved rapping ever since Snoop said "1-2-3-4," I was repeating lines, but I didn't start writing my own lyrics until I was twelve.

I guess people would categorize hipster rap just by how people look, skinny jeans and fashion rap. I was never that. In my music I never put the emphasis on clothes.

I'll dance to anything: Bob Marley or rap.