Rap Quotes · Page 45

It's not like I just take the beat, rap on it and take it for what it is, I always have the…

— Kid Ink

Set me up, wet me up, niggas stuck me up... Heard the guns bust, but you tricks never shut me up.

— Tupac Shakur

Every time the ball drop on New Year's Eve, We toast to more money, we smoke to more cheese...

— Prodigy

Never lookin' back or too far in front of me; the present is a gift and I just wanna be.

— Common

These ante meridiem cats, insomniacs... Four in the mornin' we throwin back some Cognac juice.

— Prodigy

I feel like I got fans that love me for more than just the rap. They love me as a person, they…

— Boosie

I'm 100 percent original, and that's what got me here. My rap music is more understandable, slower. It tells a story. You…

— Tupac Shakur

For what it's worth, I've been a hip-hopper from birth. Try to disrespect, and get your ass played up like a Smurf.

— Extra P

Nobody's gonna ever like all my music but if your talking about the core hip-hop fans that like hardcore rap, they're still…

— SonReal

I was a good student. By 8th grade, you've basically learned everything. By senior year, we was drinking, we was kickin' it,…

— Dreezy

Kids who are least impressive in my class are the ones who only listen to one kind of music. They only listen…

— Andy Wilkinson

Will Young. He's a great white soul singer. But he was slightly disappointing when I met him - not that friendly. Perhaps…

— Tony Blackburn

Being known as a writer did change the relationships I had with directors. The rap on actors is that they always want…

— Matt Damon

Somebody gotta tell you this: Cancer kills way more Americans than any Arabic terrorist. We use more money to fight them than…

— Crooked i

Skepticism's bad rap arises from the impression that, however necessary the activity, it can only be regarded as a negative removal of…

— Stephen Jay Gould

I go to Queens for queens to get the crew from Brooklyn, Make money in Manhattan and never been tooken. Go Uptown…

— Rakim

Rap is the pulsation given by some, usually an electronic rhythm section, without any tonality, and you have someone reading high-school poetry.

— Frank Sinatra Jr

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…

— SonReal

Rap is always evolving. It's easy for the old school to hate the new school, but it's a music that got a…

— Ice Cube

When I came out rapping on my record, a lot of people said, Oh, you just want to be like Puff.

— Jermaine Dupri

What you base your happiness around? Material, women, and large paper? That means you inferior, not major.

— Nas

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

I listen a lot to rap, and I'm inspired to take it, to use it in another way, to get the message…

— Stevie Wonder

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

— Mos Def

The hit rap duo Kris Kross wore their trousers backwards, in the Nineties, and I wore my trousers backwards to a school…

— Russell Howard

Personally, I don't give a rap for documents; for the truth in my eyes is not in them but in the mind.

— Luigi Pirandello

I hate rap music, which to me sounds like a bunch of angry men shouting, possibly because the person who was supposed…

— Dave Barry

Don't get offended, there's no need for insecurity, Age is but a number, it's all about maturity.

— Chi-Ali

I have tried... believe me, I have tried to like rap music. It makes me feel so very, very old. I have…

— Dylan Moran

A flower that grow in the ghetto know more about survival than the one from fresh meadows.

— Talib Kweli

Lisa 'Left-Eye' Lopes in TLC, she stood out a lot with her rap. It was so different, the way she would flow.

— Stefflon Don

I think people underestimate because I'm the rap guy, I'm a crazy guy, screaming all the time. But that doesn't mean that…

— Lil Jon

Rap songs don't always have to have a message. They can be done for pure entertainment or just to get a laugh.

— Big Daddy Kane

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

— RZA

I got Soul Power, never took a cold shower, Never had a girlfriend the color of cooking flour.

— J-Ro

I can rap in a London accent, make weird faces, wear spandex, wigs, and black lipstick. I can be more creative than…

— Nicki Minaj

I got a ill gift, I'm real swift They be like, 'Damn, he's still rich.' When I send my Men in Black,…

— Cam'ron

Wake up: all of that 'crack in the street' talk? It's made up, like 'Jack and the Beanstalk.'

— Sean Price

Don't you know your imperfections is a wonderful blessing, from heaven is where you got it from

— Kendrick Lamar

You know, jazz is the mother of all American music. R&B and pop and rap and everything are the branches on the…

— Eric Burdon