Rap Quotes

1163 Rap quotes by 484 unique authors

The difference between blues, jazz, rock n' roll and rap is that rap stayed poor. Even the white rappers are poor. It's scarier to look… — Russell Simmons
I don't want to see old people doing rap or rock and roll. It makes me cringe. — Grace Slick
It's a funny thing about rap, that when you say 'I' into the microphone, it's like a public confession. It's very strange. — Zadie Smith
The roots of rap are originally ghetto-ised or extremely working class. So when you're an artist who's making something which isn't how its mainstream appearance… — Zadie Smith
It's bad poetry executed by people that can't sing. That's my definition of Rap. — Peter Steele
Speculators get a bad rap. In the popular imagination they're greedy, heedless, and amoral, adept at price manipulations and dirty tricks. In reality, they often… — James Surowiecki
I'd like to do a completely off-the-wall collaboration. I would like one of my songs to be the hook to a rap song. That would… — Taylor Swift
It's just that when you heard hip-hop, no matter where you were, it was a culture that kind of made you want to try to… — Ice T
When I first got into the rap game, I had an early dream of unifying rappers. — Ice T
I don't feel that rap has been respected as an art form. Because people have seen rappers rap off the top of their heads, they… — Ice T
An MC is somebody who can control the crowd. An MC is a master of ceremonies so not only can you say your rap, you… — Ice T
As long as I'm around the cats in the hip hop scene, they'll throw me a track and I'll write a rap over it. — Ice T
I don't have to put out another rap record. I can do it at my casual pace. — Ice T
I want to be able to say that a rap career could be ten albums. — Ice T
A lot of the younger kids now can rap, but they're scared of the crowd. Mastery of that stage is an MC. I don't know… — Ice T
I've been thinking of trying my hand at rap. I've been recording snippets on my BlackBerry. — Rufus Wainwright
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
I always do my rap from the outside looking in. Like I do my rap as if I'm looking at me rap. — Lil Wayne
If I have a rap album I'm dropping, then I want it to be the best rap album. — Lil Wayne
I don't even listen to rap. My apartment is too nice to listen to rap in. — Kanye West

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