Rap Music Quotes

• I'm 100 percent original, and that's what got me here. My rap music is more understandable, slower. It tells a story. You can write a book on each of my thoughts.

  Tupac Shakur

  Rap, Book, Writing

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• I don't like rap music at all. I don't think it's music. It's just a beat and rapping.

  Nina Simone

  Rap, Thinking, Hip Hop

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• Racism is taught in the home. We agree on that? Well, it's very hard to teach racism to a teenager who's listening to rap music and who idolizes, say, Snoop Dogg. It's hard to say, 'That guy is less than you.' The kid is like, 'I like that guy, he's cool. How is he less than me?

  Jay-Z

  Teenager, Rap, Home

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  Sometimes I feel like rap music is almost the key to stopping racism.

  Eminem

  Music, Rap, Keys

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  Rap music is the only vital form of music introduced since punk rock.

  Kurt Cobain

  Rap, Rocks, Punk

  M.E.A.T Magazine, September 1991.

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• Nothing has more words and performance than rap music.

  Chuck D

  Rap, Performances

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  Personally, I just think rap music is the best thing out there, period. If you look at my deck in my car radio, you're always going to find a hip-hop tape; that's all I buy, that's all I live, that's all I listen to, that's all I love.

  Eminem

  Love, Music, Rap

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• Rap music is a combination of many different arts to make something new. There's always been a stigma that its existence would be short and only appeal to a certain group - but it's the biggest music in the world.

  Chance the Rapper

  Art, Rap, Groups

  Source: www.vanityfair.com

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• I think rap music is the sole reason for a lot of black acceptance in pop culture; because the music is very popular, it gets our image out in other ways than in movies.

  Ice Cube

  Rap, Acceptance, Thinking

  Interview with Linda Saetre, believermag.com. January 1, 2004.

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• Either I'm listening to rap music, getting hyped up to go out and do something, or I'm listening to church music.

  Hailey Rhode Baldwin

  Rap, Church Music, Listening

  Source: www.glamour.com

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• The government recognized immediately that Rap music has enormous revolutionary potential and politicians immediately came together to end it.

  Assata Shakur

  Rap, Government, Together

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• Driving by my ambitions, desire higher positions, to see eternally and my mission, to be more than just a rap musician.

  Tupac Shakur

  Rap, Ambition, Thug

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• I originally wanted to embrace the imagery and forthrightness of rap music. There are some interesting, dynamic voices in rap. But I find most of it irresponsible in its overt violence and commercialization of anger. As artists, we believe we can will action through language. If that's the case, we have to take responsibility for what we say.

  Yusef Komunyakaa

  Believe, Rap, Responsibility

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• So for instance in rap music, you very often hear words that would seem very racist, or very misogynous or very homophobic but in some of those instances, the words are being taken back or redefined so that they lose their injurious quality.

  Judith Butler

  Rap, Taken, Quality

  Source: ilga.org

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• The advancement of style is the cornerstone of hip hop. There is no correct or conservative way to make rap music. Rap is and must remain the answer, the alternative, to the conservative approach of making music.

  El-P

  Rap, Hip Hop, Style

  Source: thequietus.com

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• 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

  Rap, Stories, Way

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• But with rap music - not just N.W.A. - but rap music in general, seeing these artists wearing these team logos all the time started bringing a synergy and energy about having to rep your city, your team, everywhere and all the time.

  Ice Cube

  Team, Rap, Artist

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• There's nothing wrong with a woman being proud of an element of her life that's talked about in rap music all the time!

  Demi Lovato

  Rap, Elements, Proud

  Source: www.glamour.com

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• I didn't have to sell my soul for money. I didn't have to go through trap music; I could just help Ye write songs and get money from it. So I knew when I put my album out I could just be myself. Not saying I won't do a trap beat or rap over one, but that's just not what makes me. That's not all of CyHi.

  Cyhi the Prynce

  Song, Rap, Writing

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• My brother's been producing rap music and hip-hop for maybe 10 years.

  Tina Yothers

  Music, Brother, Rap

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• I like to get in my own world. When I'm getting ready for a meet, I always have headphones on, listening to rap music to get myself fired up

  Michael Phelps

  Motivational, Sports, Rap

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• Violence is a part of America. I don't want to single out rap music. Let's be honest. America's the most violent country in the history of the world, that's just the way it is. We're all affected by it.

  Spike Lee

  Country, Rap, America

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• A homeless man once told me that dancing to rap music is the cultural equivalent of masturbating, and I'd sort of fell the same way about playing John Madden Football immediately after filing my income tax: It's fun, but - somehow - vaguely pathetic.

  Chuck Klosterman

  Football, Fun, Rap

  Chuck Klosterman (2004). “Sex, Drugs, and Cocoa Puffs: A Low Culture Manifesto”, p.12, Simon and Schuster

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• I think it's a mistake where rap music is these days. It doesn't seem to be able to look out of the ghetto and that's ultimately unfortunate, because it defines our limitations.

  Saul Williams

  Mistake, Rap, Ghetto

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• Rap music's been around for too long now to be inspirational. The words are, but the music isn't.

  Alexander McQueen

  Rap, Long

  "Meeting the Queen was like falling in love". Interview with Joyce McQueen, www.theguardian.com. April 20, 2004.

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