Rap Quotes - Page 19

• Rappers are usually rapping about knowledge they think people need to get by in the world. If there's no movement that gives the idea that the knowledge people need is how to take over the system, what they see is that people need to know how to hustle; people need to know how to survive.

  Boots Riley

  Thinking, Ideas, People

  Source: therumpus.net

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• People really listen to your lyrics if you rap. So, I had to make sure that they were clear and concise.

  Mark Salling

  People, Clear, Concise

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• My mom, she got taken away from me when I was 14 years old. She is incarcerated. My sister was incarcerated. I was homeless. When my mom went away when I was 14... I was forced to live with my aunt. My aunt, she doesn't like rap music. She thinks rap music is the devil's music. Basically she said, "Yo, if you are going to do music you can't do it in my house."

  Sean Kingston

  Mom, Taken, Aunt

  "Sean Kingston Talks About His Hot Song". Interview with Alicia Quarles, www.washingtonpost.com. August 1, 2007.

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• I describe me sound as international: reggae, pop, rap, R&B all in one. I think I have my own style. I can't really even describe it. People say, "What type of genre is your music?" It's Sean Kingston genre. I have my own genre. No disrespect to no artist or dudes out there. I feel like I am my own person. I am doing my own thing.

  Sean Kingston

  Artist, Thinking, Genre Is

  "Sean Kingston Talks About His Hot Song". Interview with Alicia Quarles, www.washingtonpost.com. August 1, 2007.

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• We were coming out of the black community with this thing called rap music, which was basically black men yelling at the top of their lungs about what we liked and what we didn't like. It was disturbing to the status quo. It really shook things up. And those in power didn't know what to make of us, but they knew that we had to be silenced, stopped in any way from expressing our outrage.

  Chuck D

  Men, Yelling, Community

  Interview with Antonino D'Ambrosio, progressive.org. July 20, 2005.

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• Eminem has talent, and his talent is the thing that influences many young people who would have never gone anywhere near rap. White kids in different parts of the world use him as a barometer and the standard to live up to. In some ways, Eminem is an artist who has ushered in a new movement.

  Chuck D

  Kids, Artist, White

  Interview with Antonino D'Ambrosio, progressive.org. July 20, 2005.

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• If I'm boxing, I'll probably have rap on, or something a little more angry. If I'm lifting, maybe some rock 'n' roll. If I'm doing some cardio, something fast paced.

  Steven R. McQueen

  Rocks, Boxing, Littles

  Source: www.justjared.com

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• I almost got my degree so I don't need rap. And my family is the furthest thing in the world from musical.

  JD Era

  Musical, Degrees, Needs

  Source: www.hiphopcanada.com

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• I listen to purely Christian Worship Music, Christian Rap etc. People will give me some old music, stuff I used to listen to back then and when I listen to the words, it blows me away.

  Christian Hosoi

  Christian, Blow, Worship Music

  Source: theindiespiritualist.com

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• I have Hispanic friends who are all for [Donald]Trump because they feel they`re getting a bad rap on the illegal people who are here. As opposed to those who came the right way, built up their businesses, have, you know, everything going for them in our country. The country isn`t going with them the way they thought it was going to go.

  Sue Lowden

  Country, People, Way

  Source: www.msnbc.com

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• Public Enemy started out as a benchmark in rap music in the mid-1980s. We felt there was a need to actually progress the music and say something because we were slightly older than the demographic of rap artists at the time. It was a time of heightened rightwing politics, so the climate dictated the direction of the group.

  Chuck D

  Artist, Enemy, Progress

  Source: www.progressive.org

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• You have the rap industry trying to stay above water by giving the people what they want, but then you have the people who are partaking in it and seeing it and they want what they think these artist have.

  Rahki

  Artist, Thinking, People

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• I`m lucky in that in my character in hip hop is me. I`m Michael Render. My character is Killer Mike. But the truth that I sing in my raps align themselves with the policy of Bernie Sanders.

  Killer Mike

  Character, Hip Hop, Lucky

  Source: www.msnbc.com

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• You can put together an album with a bunch of producers, but your vision has to be clear. If you just grab a track from this person and this person and put them on a CD it doesn't mean that they go, just because you are rapping over them.

  Young De

  Mean, Cds, Track

  Interview with Bill Rock, 411mania.com. January 25, 2015.

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• I don't try to rap about or emulate the life of another person.

  Lazarus of Bethany

  Trying, Persons, Emulate

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• We used to have MTV and all these ways we can show our videos, and it was these rap shows, and it was everything. And then it became not cool to be conscious; it became cool to just hang out. Escapism rap became the norm. And, when I say "escapism rap", I mean getting high, get your cars, get your money, get your jewelry, go to the club, have your women, and it just became all about escaping your reality and not making your reality better on a real tip; not just on the have fun tip.

  Ice Cube

  Fun, Real, Mean

  "Ice Cube Says Hollywood Isn't Cool Enough, Adds: "I'm Ready to Run a Studio"". Interview with Stephen Galloway, www.hollywoodreporter.com. February 25, 2016.

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• Occasionally, a great band would come along, like Blondie or OutKast who could be pop and bring interesting ideas into the mainstream at the same time. That's now gone, because of this weird mutation of pop, rap, R&B, bad rave, and supposedly soulful singing on top of it.

  Johnny Marr

  Ideas, Interesting, Singing

  Source: pitchfork.com

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• I've never been into alternative, hipster rap music.

  Harmony Korine

  Hipster, Alternatives, Rap Music

  Interview with Carrie Battan, pitchfork.com. March 21, 2013.

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• Rap is the only interesting music left - it's the only genre that's still pushing itself, and experimenting in a way that I find exciting.

  Harmony Korine

  Interesting, Way, Pushing

  Interview with Carrie Battan, pitchfork.com. March 21, 2013.

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• One of my favorite things that Yahoo does on a regular basis is this story: "Wealthiest Rap Artists." That's an example of the internet just perpetuating this myth that we're all just sitting around in these mansions like Steven Tyler, bopping around in our swimming pool. It's bullshit.

  DJ Shadow

  Swimming, Artist, Bullshit

  Source: pitchfork.com

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• In a way, all recorded music is reduced to the same level, no matter what it is. You find it in the store, you put it on and, "Oh, that's not cool. That's gangsta rap. That's white supremacist punk." But in a way, the content is removed from the intention of the people that made it. That's the commercial level of music.

  Eyvind Kang

  Gangsta, White, People

  Source: pitchfork.com

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• If I like hardcore straight-edge punk music, gentle psychedelic folk music, gangster rap, indie-rock with a lot of guitar pedals, and I find inspiration from all these things in different songs of mine, shouldn't I be allowed to make any of this kind of music that I want? And it's the same for the comic books, why should I only make autobiographical stories? Or only political stories? Or only superhero stories? Or only comedy stories? I am a bit creatively desperate, when I sit with a pen and paper I am desperate for ANY idea that makes me excited, I don't care what kind of idea it is!

  Jeffrey Lewis

  Song, Inspiration, Book

  Source: therumpus.net

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• My job is to file things! I'm not going to be like, "Mr. Jacobsen from Oakland, California" - just listing his problems, like a rap.

  Tamaryn

  Jobs, Oakland, California

  Source: pitchfork.com

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• I didn't get into music until the early 90s when I heard rap music for the first time.

  Gonjasufi

  Firsts, First Time, Heard

  Source: pitchfork.com

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• When I get up I still check the rap blogs before I check any kind of dance stuff.

  A-Trak

  Stuff, Kind, Get Up

  Source: www.gq.com

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