Rap Quotes
1163 Rap quotes by 484 unique authors
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When I came out rapping on my record, a lot of people said, Oh, you just want to be like Puff.
— Jermaine Dupri
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By the late '80s, I was already giving up on rap music.
— Chuck Eddy
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There are many collaborations I'd like to explore. One is to co-write a rap concerto with Eminem.
— Evelyn Glennie
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I don't like rap that you can't understand. The youth is so quick and alert.
— Roy Ayers
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Baby, this town rips the bones from our back it's a death trap, it's a suicide rap. We got to get out while we're young.
— Bruce Springsteen
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You beefed cause you heard that I was cursing in my raps, 86, still you wanna run and get the straps.
— LL Cool J
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People were talking while I was playing, so I got up and left the stage. I've gotten to the point where I'm not really very…
— Bruce Hornsby
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I listen to all the top 20 songs, and top 20 albums, even the rap albums. But I don't like negative messages. If somebody is…
— Kenny G
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You have film actors doing TV, rap stars doing TV, with everyone kind of crossing the line.
— Anthony Michael Hall
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I really love rap music. I grew up in the '80s and '90s with Public Enemy, N.W.A., LL Cool J - I'm a hip-hop encyclopedia.…
— Mayer Hawthorne
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Rap is from the streets and I'm from the streets. That's why a lot of people accept me.
— Vanilla Ice
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Rapping and singing are not two polar opposites. There's so much middle ground. And I think there's a lot of people who find that middle…
— Ezra Koenig
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What I don't do is try to like become whoever I'm rapping with. The people who go get an LL album want to hear LL.
— LL Cool J
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What I'm trying to do is break the genre from what is rap and what is music.
— Wyclef Jean
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This rap game is just WWF; everybody wants points off somebody else.
— Young Jeezy
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With rap, it's a funny thing. You can say things, and people can take 'em the way they wanna take 'em.
— Young Jeezy
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Growing up listening to rap music, you almost feel like you should have haters. That's an important part of being a successful musician. It's a…
— Ezra Koenig
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I still to this day get the most inspiration from rap lyrics.
— Ezra Koenig
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I originally wanted to embrace the imagery and forthrightness of rap music. There are some interesting, dynamic voices in rap. But I find most of…
— Yusef Komunyakaa
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What I'm trying to do is put back into rap music what's missing - which is the good part, the fun part, that party part.
— Flavor Flav
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