Rap Quotes - Page 12

• I don't think you can be a good musician if you just listen to rap, or just the [type of music] you do. You gotta be open to other ideas.

  Freddie Gibbs

  Thinking, Ideas, Musician

  Source: www.rollingstone.com

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• Everything I do is going to be gangsta rap, street based, street oriented... I'm from Gary, Indiana, and everybody's damn near at the poverty level.

  Freddie Gibbs

  Gangsta, Levels, Indiana

  Source: www.rollingstone.com

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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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• Maybe I need somebody that could save me
  From the parts of myself that keep making me crazy.

  Slug

  Crazy, Hip Hop, Needs

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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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• In my mind, New York was the place where they had the underground rap shows and I could get in on some ciphers and just rap. This whole fantasy world I had created in my head about New York just from listening to the music my whole life, like, I'ma go up there and do that. But when I came up here, there was none of that, that scene was dead.

  J. Cole

  New York, Listening, Mind

  "J. Cole Talks Roc Nation, Meeting Jay-Z & 'The Warm Up' Mixtape". Interview with Damien Scott, www.complex.com. May 2, 2009.

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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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• Well, the first thing I do is I try to listen to whatever rapping is already on the track. I listen for cadence and melody to see how the track's already been written, and to make sure that whatever flow or flows I decide to run with, or patterns or melodies that I decide to put into the song, that they're not already in there. Then I try to see if there's a different part of the subject matter that I can talk about.

  Bun B

  Running, Song, Track

  Interview with Jon Caramanica, believermag.com. June 1, 2006.

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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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• "Ice" came in when my friends would say "cold as ice" -- if you could rap and battle people you'd say "Dude, that was ice cold." It had nothing to do with jewelry. Back then, it was like "Your cold, dawg." "Vanilla Ice -- that's cold."

  Vanilla Ice

  Ice, People, Battle

  "Catching Up With... Vanilla Ice". Q&A, www.washingtonpost.com. February 17, 2006.

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• One of the great things about rap music... it leaves a lot to be desired, as far as I'm concerned, musically, but I do recognize the very important place that it has in music and in creating role models for younger kids to emulate, giving them the dream that they can make it out of whatever situation they're in.

  Graham Nash

  Dream, Kids, Creating

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• It's all economic. Soda is easier to sell than orange juice because its costs less. Water, some coloring, some fizz, and this can, and we can sell this to you over and over and over again. And that's what rap is.

  Malik Yusef

  Orange Juice, Water, Cost

  Source: www.motherjones.com

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• With freestyling it's not about "Say something funny!" That has nothing to do with it. It's about becoming quicker on your feet and knowing that your entire day can go into your rap if you're on it.

  Doseone

  Feet, Knowing, Becoming

  Source: www.believermag.com

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• I grew up in the suburbs and was raised on rap radio, so it took me a long time to stumble upon the acoustic guitar as a resource for anything.

  Cass McCombs

  Guitar, Long, Radio

  "Cass McCombs: Cagey singer-songwriter coughs up a few words". Interview with Delfin Vigil, www.sfgate.com. November 22, 2007.

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• I like producing beats, and I like rapping, too. I have a program for the PC, and I can hook my keyboard to it.

  Jamie Waylett

  Hook, Keyboards, Program

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• Rap - so many words, so little said.

  Keith Richards

  Littles, Said

  "Keith Richards: Rap Is for 'Tone-Deaf People'" by Jon Blistein, www.rollingstone.com. September 3, 2015.

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• Having had been not so well traveled as a kid, as most teenagers aren't, I always thought, "Okay I'm going to focus my energy on rap and the rap game, because that's how I'm going to be able to pay rent and pay off my school loans." But seeing the reaction with this whole gay rap situation has made me not want to play into it at all anymore and just make whatever.

  Le1f

  Teenager, Kids, School

  "Le1f’s Riot Movement". Interview with Shayne Oliver, www.interviewmagazine.com. November 9, 2015.

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• I have no interest in emo. I'm all about rap metal.

  Rivers Cuomo

  Emo, Interest, Metals

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• As long as there's a demand for gangsta rap, it will be supplied.

  T.I.

  Gangsta, Long, Demand

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• The rap game has to save itself. Everybody's saving it. People like Lil Wayne is saving it. He's bringing energy to it.

  Andre Benjamin

  Games, People, Energy

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• The whole tape [Dedication 5] is amazing. It's my favourite accomplishment [working with Lil Wayne] and I say that with thought. It's the biggest accomplishment I've made today, because Lil Wayne is probably the biggest reason why I'm sitting here right now, rapping and doing what I do. I'm a huge Wayne fan forever.

  Chance the Rapper

  Dedication, Accomplishment, Forever

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• The Rolling Stones are truly the greatest rock and roll band in the world and always will be. The last too. Everything that came after them, metal, rap, punk, new wave, pop-rock, you name it... you can trace it all back to the Rolling Stones. They were the first and the last and no one's ever done it better.

  Bob Dylan

  Rocks, Rock And Roll, Names

  Interview with Bill Flanagan, www.telegraph.co.uk. April 13, 2009.

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