Rap Quotes · Page 55

We all share the planet, the rainbows share the sky, why can't we all share the same dream? And rap about what…

— Bushwick Bill

I just want to paint that picture of Chicago that everybody's missing, and I just want to rap about it.

— Lil Durk

I would never challenge any rapper to a rap-off. It's weird, I'm not that type of rapper.

— Donald Glover

I was just rapping as a pastime and I became good at it. So much so that by the time my Def…

— Joe Budden

The biggest rap on me is that I don't find a Watergate every couple of years. Well, Watergate was unique. It's not…

— Bob Woodward

Let's be honest. We don't take rap serious the way other cultures take rock-n-roll, they take country. They artists are being loved.

— Master P

I'm glad I'm setting an example for the younger generation so in the future they can say, 'Look how long E-40's rap…

— E-40

Rap culture is interesting and different and has purpose but it has a non-romantic view of life and of social feelings. There…

— Hal David

I had a lot of respect for Prodigy. He brought the hood to the booth. When we were trying to shape this…

— Rakim

I think creativity is something that best happens when you have clear parameters. If you're not confined by anything then it's meaningless.…

— Riz Ahmed

Not that I want to put the entire rap music style down - I just don't like it. And I know somewhere…

— Sam Kinison

The particular skill that allows you to talk your way out of a murder rap, or convince your professor to move you…

— Malcolm Gladwell

We've got the slowest 311 song ever, called 'Solar Flare,' which is a scathing political rap that [vocalist] S.A. [Martinez] puts over…

— Nick Hexum

The whole point of 'Acid Rap' was just to ask people a question: does the music business side of this dictate what…

— Chance the Rapper

Picked up the yoga, put down the soda. My healthy mind...that's what's gon' help me over. Life of a stoner (if you…

— Dizzy Wright

I personally respect Bobby. He does really well on stage. Although I don't think his raps are exceptional or that he has…

— Kim Nam-joon

I look at rap as an opportunity to act. My head is full of different characters - in each song I'm auditioning…

— Nicki Minaj

Everyone who raps isn't hip-hop. To be hip-hop, you've got to know the culture. You got to know the history.

— Ice T

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

— Immortal Technique

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

— David Foster Wallace

Who gave it that title, gangsta rap? It's reality rap. It's about what's really going on.

— Eazy-E

I didn't think, 'Oh, I wanna be a rapper,' but I would just rap for fun. When I realized it was possible,…

— Ice Spice

My whole thing is to inspire, to better people, to better myself forever in this thing that we call rap, this thing…

— Kendrick Lamar

I have been skeptical, sometimes, about the importance of rap music, which I think is a capitalistic project to make money.

— Raoul Peck

Boosie is like the Lebron James when it comes to rapping, so you know if he feels it he's going in, and…

— B-Real

I had every major label in the world - I mean, any label that dealt with rap music wanted to sign me.…

— E-40

Sometimes I listen to rap music, sometimes reggeaton sometimes African music. Really depends on the mood that I'm in.

— Serge Gnabry

I started making music for fun maybe my senior year in college. I started rapping in high school, but it wasn't anything…

— Cakes da killa

Too many MC's take that word 'emcee' lightly; They can't Move a Crowd, not even slightly.

— KRS-One

Lethal like venomous snake bites the marijuana makes my eyes bright red like brake lights

— Canibus

“Hopeful dreams - even where crack kings’ and dope fiends feast. Dust from the ash and rubble; they shine like bright stars…

— T.F. Hodge

They had all this talent, and they had no instruments. So they started rap music. They rhymed on their own. They made…

— Max Roach

Real slow hits from the bong... Make me feel like Cheech, And I'm kickin' it with Chong.

— B-Real

I got started as a producer first, but really, I feel my beats had more life than anyone could rap on them.

— Smokepurpp

And know that every struggle in life is there to teach you a lesson It's times like this that make you

— Macklemore

I love rap. I love hip-hop. But something is wrong when every song, no matter what, has got a rap.

— Shaun Ryder

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

— Franklyn Ajaye

Niggas' rap albums sound like love letters, Pen in my hand, like: damn, fam, I could do much better.

— Sean Price

I always knew that I would be some type of public figure, but I never knew that it would be rapping.

— Freddie Gibbs

The Devil crept into Heaven, God overslept on the 7th, The New World Order was born on September 11.

— Immortal Technique