Rap Quote by Ice T

Rap is from the streets and I'm from the streets. That's why a lot of people accept me.

— Vanilla Ice

Rap music came along and saved my life. I started to tell the stories of the streets and that was my way out.

— Ice T

I was, like, in a rap gang. I loved rap, and it was all around me.

— Watkin Tudor Jones

Rap was my drug.

— Eminem

I always knew I could rap, and in a sense I always rapped. And I've always behaved like a rapper. But I started to…

— Young Thug

I always felt that rap didn't cause crime; it just reflected it.

— John Legend

I loved rap, especially in the early days. But I wasn't trying to shove it down anybody's throats.

— Dee Dee Ramone

When I was 16, I was rapping just to rap.

— Tierra Whack

With rap music, because it's all so on the street, you get treated like a street cat: "All right, you've been eatin' enough, you're…

— Nas

Rap always has that undertone of rebellion and I just wanted to explore it. I felt there was a rebel within me who was…

— Badshah

When you're trying to bring the streets into rap to prove a point, then you already lost. You separate the two, and that ain't…

— Young Jeezy

I'm a thug and I rap.

— Giggs