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Rap Quotes by Jay-Z
- Cough up a lung where I'm from marcy son, aint nothin nice
- Screamin' 'Carpe Diem!' until I'm a Dead Poet.
- We create music to express ourselves and when the world relates, that’s a beautiful thing. We’re all trading off each other’s culture, so no matter…
- Well I'm not just gon' go and do rap songs. I wanna touch, and maybe help, and see what I can do in these areas.'…
- Racism is taught in the home. We agree on that? Well, it's very hard to teach racism to a teenager who's listening to rap music…
- They say a midget standing on a giant's shoulders can see much further than the giant. So I got the whole rap world on my…
- The average rap life is two or three albums. You're lucky to get to your second album in rap!
- I'm a hustler, baby; I sell water to a well!
- You could name practically any problem in the hood and there'd be a rap song for you.
- Rap has been a path between cultures in the best tradition of popular music.
- My life after childhood has two main stories: the story of the hustler and the story of the rapper, and the two overlap as much…
- But this is one of the things that makes rap at its best so human. It doesn't force you to pretend to be only one…
- Which is the other reason hip-hop is controversial: People don't bother trying to get it. The problem isn't in the rap or the rapper or…
- Rap for me is like making movies, telling stories, and getting the emotions of the songs through in just as deep a way. And I…
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- I listen to music for emotion and I get zero emotion from rap. — Sebastian Bach
- There is no singing anymore, everything is yelling and shouting and rapping and that is real boring to a guy like me. — Sebastian Bach
- Violence is a part of America. I don't want to single out rap music. Let's be honest. America's the most violent country… — Spike Lee
- I like to get in my own world. When I'm getting ready for a meet, I always have headphones on, listening to… — Michael Phelps