Death Quote by Steve Rifkind

Everybody raps. We rap to make money. We do business. Ain't no other record company out there that sold as many records as we…

— Tupac Shakur

Back in the '80s and '90s, when there was still a record business, there was pressure on anyone who was fortunate to have a…

— John Mellencamp

I kind of remember a friend of mine saying, like, you guys should make a rap record. You know, because we were already making…

— Adam Yauch

I was just rapping as a pastime and I became good at it. So much so that by the time my Def Jam contract…

— Joe Budden

Swishahouse, it started off as just a crew making mixtapes and that's when I got down with it back in like 1998. It wasn't…

— Paul Wall

The godfather of rap, that is what I am known as, and the king of party records, the records I do.

— Rudy Ray Moore

My mom had early rap records, like Jimmy Spicer. In the middle of the records was a turntable and a receiver - I used…

— Jay-Z

I had a record deal with Sony in the beginning of the 90s, and I was rapping and singing in my band.

— Volker Bertelmann

We were nominated [for Grammy] once before for our album 1916. We were up against Metallica at the time and they had just sold…

— Lemmy Kilmister

I started DJing, breakdancing and MCing in the '70s and I got my record deal in 1979 with 'Christmas Rap.'

— Kurtis Blow

We were up for a Grammy, we sold millions of records and we toured the world I don't know how many times. It was…

— Charlotte Caffey

I want to be able to say that a rap career could be ten albums.

— Ice T