Rap Quotes
1163 Rap quotes by 484 unique authors
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I look at rap as an opportunity to act. My head is full of different characters - in each song I'm auditioning a character.
— Nicki Minaj
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Rap is poetry set to music. But to me it's like a jackhammer.
— Bette Midler
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I can rap in a London accent, make weird faces, wear spandex, wigs, and black lipstick. I can be more creative than the average male…
— Nicki Minaj
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It's a joke to think that anyone is one thing. We're all such complex creatures. But if I'm going to be a poster child for…
— Alanis Morissette
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My earliest memories of rap music was mixed with my earliest memories of reggae music. They were big sounds around the way, heavy bass lines,…
— Unknown Author
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I was rapping as a hobby. It was something I did for my friends and just played around on ideas and stuff like that.
— Brandy Norwood
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When Elton John sang a duet with the white rapper Eminem on a Grammy telecast, rap went mainstream. Massive parental headaches followed.
— Bill O'Reilly
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I got tired of the Ramones around the time I quit and I really got into rap. I thought it was the new punk rock.…
— Dee Dee Ramone
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I stand up for other people, I'm very protective of people around me. If I feel like somebody is getting a bad rap or being…
— Christina Ricci
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That's why I called my record Devil Without a Cause - I'm a white boy who's so sick of hearing that white kids are going…
— Kid Rock
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My take on rap is driven by straightforward American southern rock and blues.
— Kid Rock
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I like to make music, I like rap music. Even if I'm white, I support that music. If I want to support it or any…
— Kid Rock
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They believed you can't mix rock, country, and rap, and that crossover is dead. I always knew it would work. And it will always work…
— Kid Rock
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I really want to do the unexpected, and I think that's what I did when I executed 'Long.Live.A$AP.' I wanted people to really see the…
— ASAP Rocky
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I understand what rappers are talking about. I think rap is less about educating people about the black community and more about making money.
— Dennis Rodman
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Rap is poetry to music, like beatniks without beards and bongos.
— David Lee Roth
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As far as rap goes, I grew up in Hollis, Queens, so early influences were people like Run DMC and LL Cool J.
— Ja Rule
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I've been fascinated by Machiavelli since I was very young. I've always felt that he had a bad rap from history, and that he was…
— Salman Rushdie
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When you do rap albums, you got to train yourself. You got to constantly be in character.
— Tupac Shakur
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When Ke$ha tries to rap like L'Trimm, she sounds like any ordinary lonely teenage girl stuck in a nowhere town, singing along to her radio…
— Rob Sheffield
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