Rap Quotes

I rap when I'm rich. I rap when I'm broke. I rap when I'm bullshit in the street. I rap about only…

— Killer Mike

I know that in the rap game you've got a lot of people, that come from poverty, was born in poverty and…

— Jon Connor

Hackney gets a bit of a bad rap, but it's the only place I've ever lived that felt like a community. I…

— Sharon Horgan

Learning how to rap actually improved my English, because it forced me to talk fast, and I used to suck at that.

— Rich Brian

I gave birth to most of them MC's... So when it comes around to the month of May, Send me your royalty…

— Roxanne Shante

There were people who incorporated melody before me, but I would deem myself the first person to successfully rap and sing.

— Drake

Only two to three per cent of an audience is interested in words and pays attention to lyrics; most of the rest…

— Al Stewart

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

— Raekwon

I mean family is more important than anything in life. Family is important than my crew, D-Block, my rap career anything... It's…

— Styles P

Rap actually took root in the Negro community, and then in the Hispanic community, long before it impacted on the larger American…

— Archie Shepp

It's not about a salary, it's all about reality.

— KRS-One

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

— Ezra Koenig

I stand up for other people, I'm very protective of people around me. If I feel like somebody is getting a bad…

— Christina Ricci

Young kids out here see what's on TV and feel like they can start rapping. They think rappers are rich and really…

— Rahki

My rap comes from a sociological standpoint rather than picking a particular side or dogma or ideology. I just want people to…

— Killer Mike

Public Enemy started out as a benchmark in rap music in the mid-1980s. We felt there was a need to actually progress…

— Chuck D

It's not that you don't make any money doing conscious rap music. You make a lot of money doing this, but if…

— KRS-One

People say, 'Grimm, you've been shot like 50. So why don't you just rhyme like 50? Then, you could get the money…

— MF Grimm

You can do all them push-ups to pump up your chest, I got a 12 gauge Mossberg to pump up your chest,…

— Curtis Jackson

Think you figured it out, but you don't have a clue. Think you on top of the world, but the world on…

— Young Jeezy

I love songwriting, and rap is part of my songwriting, but I'm not a rapper.

— Amber Liu

I believe gangsta rap, as such, in its foundation is simply anti-systemic and transgressive.

— Bocafloja

I can't freestyle or else I'll just start saying anything, so I'll write the song first and then record. I'll rap to…

— Tee Grizzley

Feed me hip-hop and I start tremblin'

— Rakim

This is the industry that wants [music], the rap industry. You have to be on deck all the time, but you do…

— Young Thug