Rap Quotes - Page 19

• I think all music - not just rap - has fallen into this very diluted, delusional state, where everyone's singing about money and having cars, and having all this fun; when really, people are losing their homes.

  Ice T

  Fun, Home, Thinking

  Source: www.wbur.org

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• The green movement got really hot really fast, but then the economy took a turn and it became clear exactly what's at stake, so I think somehow celebrities got a bad rap when they were trying to do good.

  Elizabeth Rogers

  Thinking, Trying, Hot

  Source: www.elle.com

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• Rap is the new rock 'n' roll. We the real rock stars, and I'm the biggest of all of them. I'm the No. 1 rock star on the planet.

  Kanye West

  Stars, Real, Rocks

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• I mean, there's an aspect I've always said that is - it's, you know, it's not poetry but it's kind of like it. It's not song lyrics but it's kind of like song lyrics. It's not rap but it's kind of like rap. And it's not stand-up comedy but it is kind of like stand-up comedy. It's all those things together.

  Quentin Tarantino

  Song, Mean, Together

  "Quentin Tarantino: 'Inglourious' Child Of Cinema". "Fresh Air" with Terry Gross, www.npr.org. December 28, 2009.

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• Sometimes I rhyme slow sometimes I rhyme quick, I was on 125 and St.Nick

  Daryl Barnes

  Sometimes, Rhyme

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• I said 'Whoa, little hottie,
  I'm not DeLorean, Gambino or Gotti.
  I don't deal coke,
  And furthermore you're making me broke.
  I'll put you in a rehab and I won't tell your folks.'
  And what do you know,
  In 18 months she came home,
  And I let her back in...
  And now she's sniffing again.

  Daryl Barnes

  Home, Hip Hop, Littles

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• I left my Phillie at home, Do you have another? I wanna get blunted, my brother.

  Daryl Barnes

  Brother, Home, Hip Hop

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• A few more albums, a few more years, I'll be like Peter Petrelli in Heroes. I'll be some type of rap super-monster or something.

  Joe Budden

  Hero, Years, Monsters

  Source: djbooth.net

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• I think that's what made rap such a stable footprint in culture, that it's so honest.

  Russell Simmons

  Thinking, Culture, Honest

  Source: www.wbur.org

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• I'm not rapping, I'm conversing. It's just a conversation between me and you.

  Snoop Dogg

  Conversation

  Interview with David Sheff, reprints.longform.org. October 1995.

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• I'm not complicated at all. I say raps that your two-year-old son can learn.

  Snoop Dogg

  Son, Years, Two Year Olds

  "Playboy Interview: Snoop Dogg". Interview with David Sheff, reprints.longform.org. October 1995.

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• I think unscripted variety television may or may not get a bad rap now, but it is a fabulous environment. It is exactly who I am, and there's so much creativity there to express.

  James Pearse Connelly

  Creativity, Thinking, Who I Am

  "What goes into designing The Biggest Loser's sets, stages, and chill rooms?". Interview with AVC, tv.avclub.com. June 27, 2016.

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• Imagine Eminem writing a play with complex raps and syllables, and melodies flowing in and out. That's what it was like for me listening to Lin-Manuel Miranda, it was incredible. So it just goes to show that if you put your teaching style in a certain form, that will attract the attention of the people you are trying to teach.

  Ryan Montgomery

  Teaching, Writing, Play

  Source: www.hiphopcanada.com

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• I was probably just graduating high school, maybe still in high school. When I was still in high school, maybe the last two years, I was rapping but I wasn't telling anybody. When I signed my deal people didn't know it was the same Ryan Montgomery from Oak Park High School, because I used to play basketball and I used to fight. Like I'd bring boxing gloves to school. So when they found out, it was, "You mean Ryan who be boxing?" or, "Ryan who be hopping up at the park?" So I was known as that guy.

  Ryan Montgomery

  Basketball, School, Mean

  Source: www.hiphopcanada.com

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• SK La'Flare's a legend. It was me, him and Vince, and Frank would come through sometimes and s - - and he was, like, fully rapping. N - - s was on it.

  Earl Sweatshirt

  Legends, Sometimes, Flare

  Source: www.wbur.org

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• I wouldn't write about sh*t I don't know. You won't hear me write about politics in Africa and stuff, because I don't know enough about it. And I would never rap about something I can't back up.

  Ice T

  Writing, Stuff, Enough

  Interview with Jorge Hinojosa, www.marandapleasantmedia.com.

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• The literacy level at Mississippi prisons? Fifth grade. Can't read, what are you going to do? If you've got a conviction rap, what are you going to do? It's a real crisis.

  Marian Wright Edelman

  Real, Levels, Fifth Grade

  "The Lenny Interview: Marian Wright Edelman". Interview with Jurnee Smollett-bell, www.lennyletter.com. April 8, 2016.

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• Nothing has more words and performance than rap music.

  Chuck D

  Rap Music, Performances

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• What is Kanye West's message? Like most rap, "I am the greatest person ever and you're not." I used to call it affirmative action for the ego.

  Bill Maher

  Ego, West, Messages

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• All I'm saying, as a fan, is I'm tired of the same song for 30 years. Can't we change the message a little? You've arrived. You have a black president. Every white guy in a commercial doesn't have to be the idiot and every black guy in a rap song doesn't have to be God's gift to the world.

  Bill Maher

  Song, Tired, Years

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• For a long period of time, the media covered rap music and hip hop the same way they cover a lot of black people, people of color, you know, the bad news happens to be news. They used to have these little stupid colloquialisms that pop up like, "You know what? No news is bad news!" They trick the masses into thinking that any news is great for you. And I just think that's a piece of crap.

  Chuck D

  Stupid, Thinking, Media

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

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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, Two, Diversity

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

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• 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

  Voice, World, Stereotype

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

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• I hadn't talked to him in many, many years. He got a bad rap on "Heaven's Gate." I actually live in the hog ranch from "Heaven's Gate" in Montana. Mike Cimino gave me that set, the whorehouse, that's my house.

  Jeff Bridges

  Years, House, Heaven

  Interview with Jason Guerrasio, uk.businessinsider.com. August 8, 2016.

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• The first rap record came out in '79, but hip-hop began in '69.

  Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five

  Hip Hop, Records, Firsts

  Source: www.motherjones.com

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