Rap Quotes - Page 20

• The big stars in rap, they were too big, so when my rap generation started, it was about bringing you inside my apartment. It wasn't about being a rap star; it was about anything other than.

  Nas

  Stars, Generations, Bigs

  Source: www.wbur.org

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• Rap is rock 'n' roll. Rock is when you push the buttons in the system; when you say, I'm not going along with what you're saying. That's rock, whether it's done with guitars, or it's done with just beats.

  Ice T

  Rocks, Guitar, Buttons

  Source: www.wbur.org

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• 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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• 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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• 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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• I actually don't like hip hop much; the music is too clichéd, the subculture, especially the macho strutting of gangsta rappers, isn't my thing. But, at the same time, rap is a simple, direct and strong musical language.

  Shahin Najafi

  Strong, Simple, Gangsta

  Source: www.spiegel.de

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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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• Clearly, everybody knows I can rap; I can freestyle all day.

  Nick Cannon

  Knows, Freestyle, I Can

  "NICK CANNON GIVES US AN EXCLUSIVE LOOK INTO THE MAKING OF THE NEW ‘WILD ‘N OUT’ MIXTAPE". Interview with Miz Kane, thesource.com. August 2, 2016.

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• There are other jobs I do besides rap. I was considering going back to school so there have been a few things on my plate that I thought about doing during my time off.

  Mic Geronimo

  Jobs, School, Plates

  Source: halftimeonline.net

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• Maybe my records might make the next Ja Rule or Jay-Z want to rap.

  Mic Geronimo

  Records, Want, Might

  Source: halftimeonline.net

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• The way I think it all went down was MTV was doing a special on people and my publicist heard about it.It was a good thing though. People ask me about that all the time, all over the world. Sometimes I feel I'm more known for that then for rapping.

  Mic Geronimo

  Thinking, Mtv, People

  Source: halftimeonline.net

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• I just make [music] for the people that always enjoyed hearing from me. I make it for people that enjoy the energy of rap music or a good rhyme. I do it for the people I see everyday, not the Hollywood ass people, the normal people.

  Mic Geronimo

  People, Everyday, Energy

  Source: halftimeonline.net

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• Let's be honest. We don't take rap serious the way other cultures take rock-n-roll, they take country. They artists are being loved.

  Master P

  Country, Artist, Rocks

  Source: www.ebony.com

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• I started making music for fun maybe my senior year in college. I started rapping in high school, but it wasn't anything serious.

  Cakes da killa

  Senior, Fun, School

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• I can rap; that's what I was originally really good at.

  James Paxton

  I Can

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• When I first came back into the booth, I starting rapping.

  Tony Sunshine

  Firsts, Starting

  Source: youknowigotsoul.com

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