Rap Quotes

Remember when friends was friends, and LL had a Benz? And cell phones and beepers was the new trends? When Koch was the Mayor and Reagan was the Pres?

I just consider myself an artist. I dont really rap. I dont really sing. I just do what I feel is good, and people like it.

When you're a little kid, you don't see color, and the fact that my friends were black never crossed my mind. It never became an issue until I was a teenager and started trying to rap.

I would say I started rapping because my friends were doin it.

Rap's conscious response to the poverty and oppression of U.S. blacks is like some hideous parody of sixties black pride.

This is jazz, this is funk, this is soul, this is gospel This is sanctified sick, this is player Pentecostal. This is church front pew, Amen, pulpit, What my people need and the opposite of bullshit.

My raps are a decision, rabble rousing, spiritual, like gospel music. I don't want to dance. We have so many things to deal with, we need to talk straight up and down.

My karma's the comma that puts you inside of a coma, Hyphen, dot, dot, semi-colon, leave you semi-swollen. Question mark, you pregnant? Oh you're not? I love you, period.

You shouldn't throw stones if you live in a glass house And if you got a glass jaw, you should watch your mouth Cause I'll break your face...

Putting styles on lock, and making beats by the bundle, Scooping more props than Bryant Gumbel...and staying humble.

I have no interest in emo. I'm all about rap metal.

Havin' cash is highly addictive, especially when you're used to havin' money to live with.

How far must you go to gain respect? Um... Well, it's kind of simple: just remain your own. Or you'll be crazy sad and alone.

Not to sound cynical, but all you ever learn in prison is how to be a better criminal.

Rock and roll to the beat of the funk fuzz Wipe your feet really good on the rhythm rug If you feel the urge to freak, do the jitterbug Come and spread your arms if you really need a hug.

It's for real though, let's connect, politic...ditto! We could trade places, get lifted in the staircases, Word up, peace, incarcerated scarfaces.

Put your hands where I can see 'em, so they look like 12 PM On the dot, see this Glock? Don't make me give these shells freedom.

You could name practically any problem in the hood and there'd be a rap song for you.

I don't know what's better: getting laid or getting paid. I just know when I'm getting one, the other's getting away.

You know it's funny, when it rains it pours they got money for wars, but can't feed the poor.

I listened to a lot of old school, golden era music. It gave me a lot of insight on how to rap and give my all.

I smoke on the mic like Smokin' Joe Frazier, The hell raiser, raisin' hell with the flavor.

It just happens to be that people like to associate poetry and rap music. I think that idea is kind of corny.

Yo, you don't think you're going under? I got a bullet with your name, your address, and your phone number.

A bird in the hand is worth more than a Bush.

You know the wisdom is reflected in the knowledge when it's manifested; If not fed in due time, the mind is anorexic.

Rapping is the only time I'm serious.

Call me the rap assassinator / rhymes rugged and built like Schwarzenegger

This whole urban rap thing needs to be pulled back some. The ghetto is being glorified, and there's nothing good about the ghetto except getting out of one.

If there's a heaven, I can't find the stairway

I don't understand the difficulty, people; Love your brother, treat him as an equal.

Rap will never be the same as before

'What you doing in the club on a Thursday?' She say she only here for her girl birthday... They ordered champagne but still look thirsty, Rock Forever 21 but just turned 30.

I smoked with a lot of college students... Most of em wasn't graduatin, and they knew it.

Scared of a bunch of water? Then get out the rain. Order a rapper for lunch, and spit out the chain.

Rebel, renegade, must stay paid.

And when we holdin' a Tec, we put a hole in your neck. Equippin' you with a permanent T-Pain vocal effect.

Pass the bone, kid pass the bone, Let's get on this mission like Indiana Jones

A lot of incredible rap albums over the past couple of decades have deserved Album of the Year. 'To Pimp a Butterfly' is an extension of those albums.

Of course I'm funky like fat people having intercourse. Basically, the funk is stuck in your teeth...so get the dental floss.

I'm lucky in that in my character in hip hop is me. I'm Michael Render. My character is Killer Mike. But the truth that I sing in my raps align themselves with the policy of Bernie Sanders.

Comin' from the school of hard knocks, Some perpetrate...they drink Clorox. Attack the black, cause I know they lack exact The cold facts, and still they try to Xerox.

I hate rap music, which to me sounds like a bunch of angry men shouting, possibly because the person who was supposed to provide them with a melody never showed up.

I bathe in basslines, rinse in riffs, dry in drums

It often takes two to do a good painting - one to paint it, and another to rap the painter smartly with a hammer before he or she can ruin it.

This thing called rhymin' is no different than coal minin'; We both on assignment to unearth the diamond.

Using numerology to count the people I sent to heaven, Produces more digits than 22 divided by 7.

I guess every superhero need his theme music.

I'm out for presidents to represent me (Say what?) I'm out for dead presidents to represent me.

And to turn it into rap wasn't too difficult besides just rhymin' the last words of each line.