Rap Quotes - Page 10

• 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

  Thinking, People, Style

  RIME Interview with Ani Yapundzhyan, cargocollective.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

  Acceptance, Thinking, Black

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

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• Just because someone raps, doesn't mean that's all they can do. A lot of people are multi-talented.

  DMX

  Mean, People, Can Do

  Interview with Jeff Otto, www.ign.com. March 25, 2004.

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• I started doing shows in places that I couldn't pronounce, didn't know existed, and I've seen people that didn't speak English or Spanish rapping to every lyric and singing to every hook. I said, "This is the type of music that I want to do."

  Pitbull

  Speak English, People, Singing

  Source: www.cnn.com

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• I think that hip-hop should be spelled with a capital "H," and as one word. It's the name of our black people culture, and it's the name of our identity and consciousness. I think hip-hop is not a product, but a culture. I think rap is a product, but when hip-hop becomes a product, that's slavery, because you're talking about people's souls. To me, that's the biggest problem.

  KRS-One

  Thinking, Talking, Names

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

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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, I think, is one that needs more of a responsible approach from journalists.

  KRS-One

  Responsibility, Thinking, Media

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

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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

  Mean, Thug, Artist

  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, College

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

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• If I were to critique myself - step out of KRS objectively and look at him - I would say that KRS has introduced the concept of being hip-hop, not just doing it. The concept of rap as something we do, while hip-hop is something we live. The concept of living a culture. Don't just look at hip-hop as rap music, see it as a culture.

  KRS-One

  Hip Hop, Culture, Looks

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

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• Rapping is a vocal delivery, so you can do it without being part of hip-hop and not knowing what hip-hop is about.

  Ice T

  Knowing, Hip Hop, Hips

  Source: collider.com

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• What's bad for the culture is wack rappers that get held in high regard like they're some great thing because it's the flavor of the month, but everybody knows they can't rap. I don't think it's hard, even for somebody who's not hip-hop, to know that that's not good. When you put them up against somebody that can really rhyme, you go, "Okay, I get it. This is what it should sound like."

  Ice T

  Thinking, Flavor Of The Month, Hip Hop

  Source: collider.com

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• As far as rap, I was more of a Mobb Deep guy rather than a Tribe guy.

  Action Bronson

  Guy, Tribes

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• I gotta learn to rap.

  Scott Disick

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• I just consider myself an artist. I dont really rap. I dont really sing. I just do what I feel is good, and people like it.

  Fetty Wap

  Artist, People, Feels

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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

  Stories, Way, Streets

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• They sought out rap music to attack, but you don't hear that anymore because it made too much money. They use Che Guevara to sell soft drinks. If something comes out that is radical and it's successful, then it's no longer radical. It's co-opted.

  John Landis

  Successful, Soft Drinks, Use

  Source: collider.com

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• My name came from me wanting a 'double-letter' artist name. In search of the ultimate L-word to put in front of my real name Luke, I heard Snoop Dogg rapping in Gin and Juice 'Laaaaiiidbackk...' and I was sold!

  Laidback Luke

  Real, Artist, Names

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• Jazz isn't as profitable for labels like Hip hop or Rap. Jazz needs subsidies to continue, just like European classical works of Bach and Beethoven are subsidized.

  Jimmy Heath

  Hip Hop, Needs, Labels

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• The government hates rap. That's why they don't arrest anybody that kills rappers! Only the good ones are dead, man! Only the good ones: Biggie dead, Tupac dead, Vanilla Ice still alive! They don't fill out a police report. They don't even have a chalk line when it's a dead rapper, they just take a piss around the body.

  Chris Rock

  Funny, Hate, Humor

  "Chris Rock: Never Scared". TV Special, April 17, 2004.

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• If you wanna get away with murder, all you gotta do is shoot somebody in the head and put a demo tape in their pocket! 'This is a rap killing! Let's get outta here!'

  Chris Rock

  Funny, Home, Humor

  "Chris Rock: Never Scared". TV Special, www.imdb.com. April 17, 2004.

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• You must not you worry about leaks or pieces [stolen] on your computer. You just make songs, you gotta make music, keep stuff out. You may not know rap, but that's how it works.

  Young Thug

  Song, Worry, Pieces

  "We Translated Young Thug’s French Interview So You Don’t Have To". Lesinrocks.com Interview, theurbandaily.cassiuslife.com. September 8, 2015.

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• I always knew I could rap, and in a sense I always rapped. And I've always behaved like a rapper. But I started to take it seriously when I recorded with the people of Brick when I started to receive some money.

  Young Thug

  Rapper, People, Bricks

  "We Translated Young Thug’s French Interview So You Don’t Have To". Interview with Carl Lamarre, theurbandaily.cassiuslife.com. September 8, 2015.

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• It's important for me to try to find new ways to express myself, but at the same time, have integrity, and still be me, and not lose myself in the midst of this crazy Rap that I'm in. It's important, it's critical, to just try things out. I think, mainly, it's just me being fearless, and not being afraid to conquer anything that comes in my path, I guess.

  Fashawn

  Integrity, Crazy, Thinking

  "Gunplay: Going Against the Grain". Interview with Jake Paine, crazyhood.com. May 19, 2018.

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• If you ever fall off, freestyling is what gets you back on track and go. Freestlying ain't always just to rap; you might fall off and you gotta come back. That's what freestyling is all about. Come off the dome with whatever is on your mind.

  Kurupt

  Fall, Track, Mind

  Source: www.hiphopcanada.com

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• I know that in the rap game you've got a lot of people, that come from poverty, was born in poverty and if it wasn't for hiphop they'd still be living in that. So when I think of hiphop, I think hiphop saves lifes, hiphop changes lives.

  Jon Connor

  Life Changing, Thinking, Games

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