Rap Artist Quotes

• On 139 and Lenox Ave there's a big park, and if you're soft don't go through it when it gets dark

  Big L

  Rap, Dark, Parks

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• I was mostly surprised by the rap artists, actually, that were influenced by Sabbath. That was a surprise. But it's very nice and I'm very honoured. It's nice to know after 27 years now that what I said in the first place has stuck, and that was the belief in it.

  Tony Iommi

  Nice, Rap, Artist

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• As the times are changing, you don't hear as many sample issues with rap artists. Part of that has to do with production styles these days, but the nature of copyright is also changing as the internet becomes more of a giant.

  Girl Talk

  Rap, Artist, Times Are Changing

  Source: uproxx.com

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• One of my favorite things that Yahoo does on a regular basis is this story: "Wealthiest Rap Artists." That's an example of the internet just perpetuating this myth that we're all just sitting around in these mansions like Steven Tyler, bopping around in our swimming pool. It's bullshit.

  DJ Shadow

  Rap, Swimming, Artist

  Source: pitchfork.com

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• Public Enemy started out as a benchmark in rap music in the mid-1980s. We felt there was a need to actually progress the music and say something because we were slightly older than the demographic of rap artists at the time. It was a time of heightened rightwing politics, so the climate dictated the direction of the group.

  Chuck D

  Rap, Artist, Enemy

  Source: www.progressive.org

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• I think I'm pretty regular. I try to keep it pretty regular; I go to sleep early. I don't know what distances me from other rap artists - I haven't met a lot of 'em.

  Vince Staples

  Distance, Rap, Sleep

  Source: www.coupdemainmagazine.com

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• I don't have any sympathy for the subject matter, [but] I have great respect for rap artists. In fact, not for the rap artists, but the people who make the music over which they rap. Rap music - the music itself is incredible - but [the people that make the music] are hardly ever credited.

  Stewart Copeland

  Rap, Artist, People

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• I get more respect from rap artists than I do from my own industry. I don't always write the kind of music that country executives want. Rappers are like that too .. my words come from the street, and their words come from the street. That slicked-up pop stuff doesn't come from the street, it's all pre-fab.

  Toby Keith

  Music, Country, Rap

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• As a conscious rap artist, you should not want to be in a gangster market. You should be trying to establish your own market, create a place where you can be yourself and make some money and feed your family.

  KRS-One

  Being Yourself, Rap, Artist

  Interview with Nathan Rabin, www.avclub.com. April 25, 2001.

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• If you're a conscious rap artist and you're worried about Billboard charts, you're gonna have a problem.

  KRS-One

  Rap, Artist, Problem

  Interview with Nathan Rabin, www.avclub.com. April 25, 2001.

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• You can't expect to be on MTV and critique George Bush. You can't expect to be on BET or the cover of 'The Source' advocating Jesus Christ or Buddha or Hindu Krishna or Moses. As a conscious rap artist, you have to play in the arena that you're supposed to be in. What is that arena? That arena is the college market. The conscious rap artist woos the college market, even though the college market is the wildest, most sexed-out, drug-driven market in the country, possibly the world.

  KRS-One

  Country, Jesus, Rap

  Interview with Nathan Rabin, www.avclub.com. April 25, 2001.

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• Nowadays rap artists coming half-hearted,
  Commercial like pop, or underground like black markets.
  Where were you the day hip-hop died?
  Is it too early to mourn? Is it too late to ride?

  Talib Kweli

  Rap, Artist, Hip Hop

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• It's not that you don't make any money doing conscious rap music. You make a lot of money doing this, but if you're greedy and you're not satisfied with $500,000 a year, and you want $2 million a year, then you will suffer as a conscious rap artist.

  KRS-One

  Rap, Artist, Years

  Interview with Nathan Rabin, www.avclub.com. April 25, 2001.

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• RZA is one of the most unique individuals and rap artists that I have worked with.

  El DeBarge

  Rap, Artist, Unique

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• The most popular rap artists aren't supposed to be rapping about being broke.

  Danny Brown

  Rap, Artist, Broke

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• It seems other rap artists are trying to follow a "tradition", or something... I don't consider us [Migos] as weirdos, we just went the other way and didn't follow the rap tradition. We just killed it and made it our tradition.

  Quavo

  Rap, Artist, Trying

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• If you're true to the upliftment of people and the unity of people, raising the self-worth of people, then you live within your means. But the problem is that we're looking at the grass on the other side, saying, "That's greener. I want to be in the thug market, but I want to be a conscious rap artist." It doesn't work like that.

  KRS-One

  Rap, Mean, Thug

  Interview with Nathan Rabin, www.avclub.com. April 25, 2001.

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