Rap Quotes · Page 59

My parents are both definitely supportive of my career.They are both big fans of rap. They are really what influenced me.

— Joey Badass

Keep my planets in orbit, Never forfeit or quit, Move forward... I talk with the awkward slang, I walk with the Wu-Tang.

— RZA

We was sneakin' in and it was general admission, Now we ownin' the arena and decidin' who allowed in it.

— Curren$y

With rap, it's a funny thing. You can say things, and people can take 'em the way they wanna take 'em.

— Young Jeezy

I get physical, mystical, very artistical... Giving party people something funky to listen to.

— Big Daddy Kane

I like to make music, I like rap music. Even if I'm white, I support that music. If I want to support…

— Kid Rock

Favorite rap album? Damn. Lil Wayne's mixtapes... He got a lot of good mixtapes like 'Da Drought 3.'

— Jamal Murray

My father always told me to wisen up, son. Cause if you hung with nine broke friends, you're bound to be the…

— PMD

When I'm writing, I'm thinking about how the songs are going to play live. Fifty bars of rap don't translate onstage. No…

— Drake

I have done whole projects with Scoop Deville, I like to basically work with a single producer. I always just worked on…

— Young De

I listen to all the top 20 songs, and top 20 albums, even the rap albums. But I don't like negative messages.…

— Kenny G

I'm to trying to say I'm something I'm not. Black people understand that. I'm just doing my raps, my way. Rap is…

— Vanilla Ice

People give the South a bad rap. It's often stereotyped as backwards and close-minded and dogmatic, and all of those things have…

— Jesmyn Ward

I feel like I have a lot of rhythm because I'm from the DMV. Because you got so many different types of…

— Rico Nasty

I committed crimes of passion and my soul was suspected, But it was thrown out of court because of course the Creator…

— Cee Lo Green

The song that's affected me the most profoundly is probably Michael Jackson's 'Thriller,' or, more specifically, the couple seconds of instrumental break…

— Patrick Stump

I'm from the South and I listen to country music. I've listened to a little rap here and there.

— Chipper Jones

By no means am I excusing homophobic rap lyrics, but as a product of the same environments that birthed hip-hop, I fully…

— Karamo Brown

I hate the bad rap that people give my parents. Because they are just parents, really, at the end of the day…

— Lindsay Lohan

Everybody raps. We rap to make money. We do business. Ain't no other record company out there that sold as many records…

— Tupac Shakur

I never live alone, I never walk alone. My posse's always ready And they're waitin' in my zone.

— Chuck D

Anything that's of any use, famous people get hold of it and take it for themselves and it gets a bad rap.

— Noel Gallagher

God really exists, I tell you like this: It resides inside. And anybody tell you different, Just selling you religion, Tryin' to…

— Killer Mike

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

— Prodigy

Rap was an outlet for me to express myself. Nobody was trying to hear no R&B/Funk band from East Houston, so I…

— Scarface

The employees of the year, yeah we back to work. I took time off, while other rappers got jerked.

— Erick Sermon

I do lots of weird voices and I kind of act out my raps. That's something that's always been in me.

— Nicki Minaj

Terrorize the jam like troops in Pakistan, swingin' through your town like your neighbourhood spiderman!

— Inspectah Deck

If Too $hort and Freddy B DJed your party, you were gonna get a rap show during the party.

— Too Short

When I hit the bong I'm Godzilla takin' over Hong Kong Eatin' wonton with a shotgun in long johns.

— Redman

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

— Raekwon

Many elitists hate rap as much as they hate country, though they don't like to admit it for fear of appearing racially…

— Will Shetterly

Makin' veterans run for medicine, Cause I put out more lights in a fight than ConEdison.

— Kool G Rap

If I upset you, don't stress. Never forget That God isn't finished with me yet. I feel His hand on my brain...…

— Tupac Shakur

I think music talks to you on an emotional level, regardless of where you're from. I guess I related to the tempo…

— Iggy Azalea

A congressman is a pig. The only way to get his snout from the trough is to rap it sharply with a…

— Henry Adams

Nah, I don't really have to spit nothin' too complex, I just rep for my hood, and it sound correct.

— Cappadonna

“Dead Prez is playing on the car’s stereo, telling me that it’s bigger than Hip-Hop, but I beg to differ.”

— Kris Kidd

We went through rock 'n' roll, which then became just rock, then punk rock, then the worst disease of all - rap…

— Frank Sinatra Jr

What inspires me about rap is that it's written in an almost poetic way. I just think it's so cool.

— Billie Eilish