Rap Quotes - Page 13

• I really like LIMP BIZKIT. I mean, I've said it for years - I don't know if anyone actually hears it - but I think LIMP BIZKIT are an awesome band. In terms of the rap-rock bands, or ANY bands out there, I think they really are truly among the best.

  Lars Ulrich

  Mean, Thinking, Rocks

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• I've done movies where I've had to cast actors and teach them to rap, and cast rappers and teach them to act.

  Craig Brewer

  Actors, Done, Teach

  Source: collider.com

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• Something that you can't play in your kitchen is rap. It is done in your neighbour's kitchen.

  Mick Jagger

  Play, Kitchen, Done

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• It's hard bein' real in a world that's a fallacy.

  Meyhem Lauren

  Real, Hip Hop, World

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• I own the night...the heat's my receipt.

  Ka

  Night, Hip Hop, Heat

  "Cold Facts". Song by Ka, 2012.

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• Life is real, reality is not a dream.
  Those who chose to sleep...I wake em up,
  Cause you're sleepin with your mouth open hummin deez nuts.

  King Sun

  Dream, Real, Sleep

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• Once in awhile, I'mma cheat and get dome,
  But best believe that I'mma always come home.
  Shorty, I luv you.

  Meyhem Lauren

  Believe, Home, Mma

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• My rhymes make niggas rebuild like water damage.

  Meyhem Lauren

  Damage Is Done, Water, Hip Hop

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• So with the freestyles, I just do it for fun. If I hear something that I like, I'm rapping on it.

  Kid Cudi

  Fun, Freestyle, Ifs

  "Kid Cudi's Complex Cover Story: The Outtakes". Interview with Joe La Puma, www.complex.com. October 12, 2010.

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• I sit with my toes in a brook, And if any one axes forwhy? I hits them a rap with my crook, For 'tis sentiment does it, says I.

  Horace Walpole

  Axes, Doe, Crooks

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• If we but give it time, a work of art 'can rap and knock and enter our souls' and re-align us - all our molecules - to make us whole again.

  P. K. Page

  Art, Giving, Soul

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• Craft' gets a bad rap. Mediocre art is not caused by craft; it is caused by artists. Good art employs whatever craft works best.

  Walter Darby Bannard

  Art, Mediocrity, Crafts

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• Life is love, heartache and strain,
  Yet the strength to overcome it all keeps me sane.

  O.C.

  Heartache, Hip Hop, Overcoming

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• Everything has a price...
  No matter if it's fortune, fame or your life.
  I understood later that it's all about paper,
  Everything has a fee in the land of the free.

  O.C.

  Land, Hip Hop, Paper

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• Rap, rap! upon the well-worn stone, How falls the polished hammer! Rap, rap! the measured sound has grown A quick and merry clamor. Now shape the sole! now deftly curl The glassy vamp around it, And bless the while the bright-eyed girl Whose gentle fingers bound it!

  John Greenleaf Whittier

  Girl, Fall, Sound

  John Greenleaf Whittier (2012). “Songs of Labor and Reform From Volume III., the Works of Whittier: Anti-Slavery Poems and Songs of Labor and Reform”, p.32, tredition

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• I do not care a rap as to who gets credit for the work, provided the work is done.

  Theodore Roosevelt

  Care, Credit, Done

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• Rap's the occupation, but one day watch I'll be Pimp of the Nation.

  Kid Rock

  Future, Pimp, One Day

  Song: Pimp of the Nation, Album: Grits Sandwiches for Breakfast, 1990

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• I like my raps but I'm never too happy with some of 'em because I feel like they could be better. But every time I hear my flow on that song I wow myself.

  Tyler, The Creator

  Song, Ems, Wow

  Source: pitchfork.com

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• Everything that’s out now…rap wise and music wise in general [is whack]. I mean, you know whack when you see it. So I’m on a crusade against whackness, and I hope no whackness comes my way. That’s my move, my mission for this record: to combat whackness on all fronts – to make sure that people know what quality music is. It’s not so much about message, but have something to say.

  Jeru the Damaja

  Wise, Moving, Mean

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• With rap music, because it's all so on the street, you get treated like a street cat: "All right, you've been eatin' enough, you're fat, get out of the way now and let somebody else come by."

  Nas

  Cat, Way, Enough

  Interview with Ryan Dombal, pitchfork.com. December 6, 2006.

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• I just appreciate what Andre 3000 has done musically - just the bravery. I think Andre 3000 may be one of the bravest artists in rap music.

  Nas

  Artist, Thinking, Appreciate

  Source: pitchfork.com

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• I just knew what I wanted to be since the third grade. And I always did well in school, I was the type to get good grades, I never really got below Cs or nothing like that. I always kept it A-B. But there's no school for rap.

  Big Sean

  School, Type, Third Grade

  Source: www.gq.com

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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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• 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

  Character, Style, Spirit

  "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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• 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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