Rap Quotes

I don't think rap really fits in to 'American Idol' in the sense that I believe rap is an art form in itself more akin to poetry, more akin to drama, if you will.

I like my R&B, my hip-hop. But I'm old school, I don't like a lot of new stuff. Though I do like a little bit of Meek Mill. He kind of sounds angry when he's rapping so I like that part of the game.

I'm not big on rap, to be honest. I just don't get it. It's angry people shouting. I like a song, melodies, people singing.

My mic is a Magnum. See me and this chick, we go back like Cro-Magnon. Man...we did it in the back of your Magnum; I said, 'Put them Lifestyles back, give me the Magnums.'

What Rare [albom] allows me to do is gonna show people other things that I'm capable of 'cause they really haven't heard a lot of things outside of the rap stuff that I do.

EPMD in effect, I'm clockin' mad green Like Kermit the Frog, sloppy like Boss Hog, Girl was runnin' wild...ate her like a corn dog.

Funky like your grandpa's drawers, don't test me We in like that, you're dead like Presley

You used to be fly, but you crashed your plane.

See me looking like Atlas, when he handle the globe. I see you looking like Alice, Wonderland is your home. It makes me wonder if you practice your flow.

You only get honest expression when I spit in your ear; That means even when I'm dissing you I'm being sincere.

Some people can rap, some can sing, some can write, some can do all of the above.

I grew up listening to Commission, Kirk Franklin and Hezekiah Walker. If I was found listening to any rap, my pops would throw them out, or crush the CDs and tapes - literally.

Before I started rapping and touring I weighed about 160. But by going on the road every night eating fast food, performing every night, partying and drinking I started gaining weight immediately.

Sometimes people say yo do you think rap changed you. No doubt it changed me. If I wasn't making records I'd still be hanging every night.

I got 304's in 310 on Section 8, with multiple 187's... Sport a Marilyn Manson t-shirt when I die and go to heaven.

I love rapping. I do. My styling's similar to Missy Elliott - I think she's so dope. In a weird way, that's how I first learned the American accent: doing American rap songs.

I often thought that if there had been a good rap group around in those days, I might have chosen a career in music instead of politics.

My music is pretty honest. I can't rap on science fiction. Punk is from the street.

I go to a lot of stand-up comedy. I find more inspiration from observational stuff than from rap.

I've been thinking of trying my hand at rap. I've been recording snippets on my BlackBerry.

I think that's what made rap such a stable footprint in culture, that it's so honest.

I've always been a fan of rap.

Grew up in Stapleton House village, where blood flood the waters in the streets like oil spillage

On one side you have book burners, Congressional wives and Pat Robertson. On the other side, you have vulgar comedians, foul-mouthed rap groups and Dennis Hopper—all your choices should be so easy.

I didn't ever want to make a rap album. I considered it too limiting. Now that's exactly what I've gone and done

All of my projects are done right because I know the game, and I consider myself a rap expert.

Nothin' taken for granted, just learn from my mistakes. My will too strong, my spirit's somethin' they can't take.

There comes a time in every man's life when he's gotta handle up on his own. Can't depend on friends to help you in a squeeze, Please...they got problems of their own.

He doesn't even suit ya, and he's surely not your size, I'm surprised that you slept on a heart that's worldwide.

I'll rap as long as people want to hear it.

I'm always gonna rap. Rapping's what I started doing, I even sang when I first started rapping, when I couldn't really sing at all but I always tried.

I think every rapper should know how to sing, like a little bit. I mean common man it'll make your rapping better straight up.

That's one of my struggles as a hip-hop artist. If I feel like doing a super conscious song where I don't even rap.

I'm not really interested in anybody, that's why I started rapping. I'm still a fan of Tupac. That's the only rapper that I'm still like, "Oh! Tupac!"

A lot of fairy tales are thinly disguised hostility raps against parents. Kids know that they can't make it on their own, that if they were left alone, they would die.

Commentating, illustrating, description giving, adjective expert, analyzing, surmising musical myth seeking people of the universe, this is yours.

Why give you the cure when the disease makes money?

We speak the love language, they speak from pain and anguish. Some don't love theyselves, so they perception is tainted.

You see somebody rapping and you're like, "Nah, my cousin can do that." You're spoiled by the experience. Overseas, it's still something that people can appreciate.

Everybody could write, deejay, rap. Everybody could do it all.

My job is to file things! I'm not going to be like, "Mr. Jacobsen from Oakland, California" - just listing his problems, like a rap.

Flows that go against the grain with a story so compellin' I should mind The People's Court, snatch the mic from Doug Llewellyn

The only thing intimidating about Cube is that he's the father of gangsta' rap. You just worry about getting your lines right, or he might shoot you.

Good and bad is tricky," she said. "I ain't too certain about where people stand. P'raps what matters is which way you face." (pp. 348-349)

I do not care a rap as to who gets credit for the work, provided the work is done.

I do like to dress up. I am shapely, everything about me is real and I can rap.

I learned more from Black Star and Black Thought Than I ever did from any class of any sort.

I mean I'll be retired from rap, so what I'll be doin' in rap will be for fun.

When I first came back into the booth, I starting rapping.

I've always had a passion for rap, and I might not be the greatest rapper, but I'm better than half of them out there.