Rap Music Quotes - Page 4

• In rap music, even though the element of poetry is very strong, so is the element of the drum, the implication of the dance. Without the beat, its commercial value would certainly be more tenuous.

  Archie Shepp

  Strong, Rap, Elements

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• The art of cartooning is vulgarity. The only reason for cartooning to exist is to be on the edge. If you only take apart what they allow you to take apart, you're Disney. Cartooning is a low-class, for-the-public art, just like graffiti art and rap music. Vulgar but believable, that's the line I kept walking.

  Ralph Bakshi

  Art, Rap, Class

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• What I'm trying to do is put back into rap music what's missing - which is the good part, the fun part, that party part.

  Flavor Flav

  Fun, Party, Rap

  "Public enemy's Flavour Flav raps about first solo album" by Chris Nelson, www.mtv.com. July 8, 1999.

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• I made the decision that I was going to make rap music in, like, fourth grade, so it's been something I was saying for a long time.

  Chance the Rapper

  Rap, Long, Decision

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• When you've been raised in care, rap music isn't just about guns and sexism. They're talking about real things you can hang on to, problems of identity that you have sympathy with. It's not just about the music, with rap: when I was in care, it meant a whole lot more than that.

  Samantha Morton

  Sympathy, Real, Rap

  "Young, gifted and gabby" by Burhan Wazir, www.theguardian.com. June 17, 2000.

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• I think my fans respect me for bein' as truthful and honest as you can be and still be Rap music and not be opinion music. It's still Rap, its still style, flavor, flair, and people just kind of like how I present myself and the things that I do.

  Ice Cube

  Rap, Thinking, People

  RIME Interview with Ani Yapundzhyan, cargocollective.com.

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• I like to make music, I like rap music. Even if I'm white, I support that music. If I want to support it or any other white kid wants to support it more power to them.

  Kid Rock

  Rap, Kids, White

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• If it's a band I like, I just hope they will survive it all. And I'll admit that if it's crap music, I hope they won't and it'll go away. Simply because there are too many great bands who should be heard in their place.

  Eddie Vedder

  Going Away, Band, Should

  Interview with Carrie Brownstein, www.believermag.com. June 2004.

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• I'm really a singer, so I love songs and I love singing. I like rap music, but I didn't grow up freestyling.

  Billy Idol

  Song, Growing Up, Rap

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• When I make the music that I make, when it comes to reggae music, I engulf the whole spirit of it all. It's just like when I do rap music or whatever style of music I do, I have to engulf the character I do and bring that to life.

  Snoop Dogg

  Rap, Character, Style

  "Q&A: Snoop Dogg and Diplo on Jamaican Inspiration, Bob Marley's Legacy". Interview with Jeff Rosenthal, www.rollingstone.com. July 31, 2012.

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• I hate rap music, which to me sounds like a bunch of angry men shouting, possibly because the person who was supposed to provide them with a melody never showed up.

  Dave Barry

  Funny, Music, Hate

  Dave Barry (2010). “Dave Barry Does Japan”, p.117, Ballantine Books

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• Rap music is really good when you're traumatized.

  Kim Gordon

  Rap, Music Is

  "Kim Gordon Sounds Off" By Lizzy Goodman, www.elle.com. April 22, 2013.

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• Rap music is just computerised crap. I listen to Top of the Pops and after three songs I feel like killing someone.

  George Harrison

  Song, Rap, Killing Someone

  "The Beatles - After the Break-up : In Their Own Words". Book by David Bennahum (p. 54), 1991.

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• I like rap music. But bragging about being rich to poor people is really offensive. I want to hear a rap song about buying a Cy Twombly painting or dating a museum curator. I want to hear about that kind of rich.

  John Waters

  Song, Rap, Museums

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• I think rap music has made more money on dance music than dance music has made on dance music. Just a thought.

  Kaskade

  Rap, Thinking, Made

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• If we were to see Western landay poems, we'd see them out of disenfranchised populations, maybe out of the legacy of slavery. Spirituals, rap music - that would be the space we'd find American landays in.

  Eliza Griswold

  Rap, Legacy, Slavery

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• Rap music and rap records used to always be like this: we get one or two shots to a piece cause it was a singles marketplace and when the major record companies saw that it could also handle the sales of the albums then they started to force everybody to expand their topics from 1 to about 10 and you gotta deliver 12 songs, so a lot of times if you took a person who wasn't really developed, and the diversity of trying say 12 different things, you know the companies were like "Cool! Say the same thing 12 different ways."

  Chuck D

  Song, Rap, Two

  Interview with Maranda Pleasant, www.marandapleasantmedia.com. May 12, 2012.

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• I always did poetry, and [rap music is] pretty much hip-hop melody with poems.

  Tiffany Foxx

  Rap, Hip Hop, Hips

  Source: www.ebony.com

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• With rap music, there are billions and billions of samples that are uncleared that people have never been bothered about on an underground level.

  Girl Talk

  Rap, People, Levels

  Source: uproxx.com

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• They had all this talent, and they had no instruments. So they started rap music. They rhymed on their own. They made their own sounds and their own movements.

  Max Roach

  Rap, Sound, Movement

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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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• You never want to look like an old fart doing young rap music.

  DJ Quik

  Rap, Looks, Want

  Interview with David Drake, pitchfork.com. October 15, 2014.

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• I grew up in the Bronx. I'm into rap music.

  Abel Ferrara

  Rap, Bronx, Grew

  Interview with Aïda Ruilova, www.interviewmagazine.com. February 13, 2013.

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• They don't want to see rap music. They don't want to see the Beastie Boys. They don't care what we're doing. They want one thing and one thing only: that's to see Madonna come on stage.

  Ad-Rock

  Rap, Boys, Want

  Source: blankonblank.org

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• No, I can't do rap music...

  Dolly Parton

  Rap, I Can

  "Queen Latifah: 'Joyful Noise' Role Brings Her Closer To God". Interview with Kelly Mahan, theboombox.com. January 4, 2012.

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