Rap Quotes - Page 11

• Everyone who raps isn't hip-hop. To be hip-hop, you've got to know the culture. You got to know the history.

  Ice T

  Hip Hop, Culture, Hips

  "Ice-T focuses on rap craft in 'The Art of Hip-Hop'". Interview With Jonathan Landrum Jr., www.sandiegouniontribune.com. June 15, 2012.

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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 feel like science fiction can get a bad rap sometimes because people make something just to throw an alien in it or just to make it weird, and it doesn't really have a story.

  Drew Roy

  People, Fiction, Stories

  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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• I've found, across the board, that comedians have been very respectful and kind to me. And that seems to stem from the fact that they are just respectful and kind people in general. Comedians get a bad rap for being dark and anti-social I think.

  Bo Burnham

  Dark, Thinking, People

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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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• I have tried... believe me, I have tried to like rap music. It makes me feel so very, very old. I have tried to get home with the downies.

  Dylan Moran

  Funny, Believe, Home

  "Dylan Moran: Monster". Video, November 15, 2004.

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• I don't like people being something that they ain't, and we got a lot of that in rap right now.

  Freddie Gibbs

  People, Right Now

  Source: pitchfork.com

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• Not only the brothers on the street but the middle class brothers are also identifying with the gangster rappers because of the extent to which this music circulates. It becomes possible for the - not only the young middle class men, but it becomes possible for young middle class white men and young men of other racial communities to identify with the misogyny of gangster rap.

  Angela Davis

  Brother, Men, White

  Frontline Interview, www.pbs.org. 1997.

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• I guess people would categorize hipster rap just by how people look, skinny jeans and fashion rap. I was never that. In my music I never put the emphasis on clothes.

  Fashawn

  Fashion, Hipster, Jeans

  Source: www.sfcritic.com

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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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• The rap game will never be at peace. The rap game is built upon competition. There will always be competition and as long as there's competition, there will never be peace. There's a heavy competition in every scene. Everyone wants to be the one.

  Kurupt

  Games, Long, Competition

  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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• I'm building my adult beverage empire the way I built my independent rap label. As my career.

  E-40

  Independent, Careers, Adults

  "GO DER Exclusive; the Ambassador of the Bay Himself E 40 #GODER". GO DER Interview, godermag.com. February 29, 2016.

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• I could have easily got T-Pain or anybody like that, but let me just get somebody very left. That'll wake them up. Gaga. She's never done a rap record before. Pay attention. It's a method to my madness.

  Wale

  Pain, Attention, Done

  "Wale Talks Media Hate, Charles Hamilton & Celebrity Women". Interview with Ernest Baker, www.complex.com. June 4, 2009.

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• Nobody wants to hear me rap.

  Joe Mauer

  Want

  "We Play 'Would You Rather' With Joe Mauer". Interview with Rafi Kohan, www.gq.com. March 21, 2011.

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• I love doing the music. I love programming beats and kind of working on the music as much, if not more, than the actual rapping.

  Joaquin Phoenix

  Kind, Beats, Programming

  Source: dishmag.com

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• Time is money, every moment is costly,
  So I ration emotion, 'cause existence exhausts me.

  Slug

  Hip Hop, Causes, Emotion

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• I didn't get turned on, I just got turned.
  I wasn't as aroused as I was concerned.

  Slug

  Hip Hop, Concerned

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• It makes me wonder what this rapping shits a hobby for, oh that's right, because I'm gifted in another field, and another field, and another field.

  Donald Glover

  Hobbies, Fields, Wonder

  Song: Fuck It All, Album: Culdesac, 2010

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• I can see myself retiring from rapping, but I don't think from music. After that, I think I'd just go into some other kind of music, 'cuz I'm a worldwide fan of music, all types of music, all cultures, so I'll always be involved.

  Redman

  Thinking, Fans, Culture

  Interview with Nathan Rabin, www.avclub.com. April 10, 2007.

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• I used to rap as a kid and people were impressed by it, so it gave me the drive to keep going. Everybody has at least one talent. I guess this is my talent.

  Danny Brown

  Kids, People, Talent

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• There are poor white people who hear rap music and feel it is about them, because it is. That's why you have an Eminem and a Bubba Sparxxx and rappers like that.

  Russell Simmons

  White, People, Poor

  Interview with Nathan Rabin, www.avclub.com. September 26, 2002.

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• A lot of people have that story that they used to sell crack or shoot people; that's nothing new. But honestly, if that was me, I probably still wouldn't be doing that because it's so many people that's doing that. It just gets old when you hear a million raps about how many ways I could shoot you. So I just try to be more creative and come with something new because I actually care about the music.

  Chamillionaire

  People, Creative, Trying

  Interview with Tom Breihan, pitchfork.com. November 27, 2005.

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• Not everyone agrees on music. Some people like rap, some like country - it's all an opinion. F the critics.

  Vanilla Ice

  Country, People, Opinion

  Source: www.washingtonpost.com

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