Rap Music Quotes - Page 4

• Let the voice be the voice of the voiceless and let it come from the world of rap music to keep the stereotype and the peace at the same time.

  Chuck D

  Rap, Voice, World

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

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• There's always tons of crap music people are trying to sell us - [it's] the same way with publishers and galleries.

  Scott McClanahan

  People, Trying, Way

  Source: www.thefader.com

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• I just make [music] for the people that always enjoyed hearing from me. I make it for people that enjoy the energy of rap music or a good rhyme. I do it for the people I see everyday, not the Hollywood ass people, the normal people.

  Mic Geronimo

  Rap, People, Everyday

  Source: halftimeonline.net

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• I love pop music just as much as I like rap music, or ill-ass hip-hop music, or rock music.

  Donnis

  Rap, Rocks, Hip Hop

  "Donnis Talks 'Fashionably Late,' Atlantic Debut & Texting With T.I". Interview with Jordan Martins, www.complex.com. June 24, 2010.

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• Do you see how Jerry Heller made it work? That is how he combined what we did to make the rap music into mass music. That's exactly how it happened.

  Michel'le

  Rap, Mass, Made

  Source: www.elle.com

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• What we're doing now, is to try to eradicate the limited notion of how people are interacting with each other through hyper-racialized ideas. A lot of it deal with, as an example, genre. If I ask you to visualize a trap musician or a hip-hop musician, you'll see one thing. If I say visualize a western classical musician, you'll see a very different thing. A lot of how music is disseminated to us is hyper-racialized. It's not something that we think about all the time, but if you take a minute to look back, it's why you get this argument when there's a white rapper.

  Christian Scott

  Thinking, Rapper, People

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• To me, that's the biggest problem with hip-hop today is the fact that everyone believes that all of hip-hop is rap music, and that, when you say "hip-hop," it's synonymous with rap. That when you say "hip-hop," you should be thinking about breakdancing, graffiti art, or MCing - which is the proper name for rap - DJing, beat-boxing, language, fashion, knowledge, trade. You should be thinking about a culture when you say, "hip-hop.".

  KRS-One

  Fashion, Art, Believe

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• I think that all journalists, specifically print journalists, have a responsibility to educate the public. When you handle a culture's intellectual property, like journalists do, you have a responsibility not to tear it down, but to raise it up. The depiction of rap and of hip-hop culture in the media is one that needs more of a responsible approach from journalists. We need more 30-year-old journalists. We need more journalists who have children, who have families and wives or husbands, those kinds of journalists. And then you'll get a different depiction of hip-hop and rap music.

  KRS-One

  Children, Husband, Rap

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• The power of the voice in rap is about the expression of truth, rather than the expression of some kind of artifice. Landays, they're about love and pleasure and oppression and levels of oppression within a family. And because of that, I think rap music is probably closely related.

  Eliza Griswold

  Rap, Thinking, Kind

  Source: www.guernicamag.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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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