Rap Quotes - Page 21

• 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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• The Gods have a lesson that tells you to build and destroy and that's the cycle of life. Things have to be destroyed and then it has to be rebuilt. I think rap always go through cycles where it appears that it's destroying itself but it's actually purging itself and after it purges itself it comes into another state of being.

  Mic Geronimo

  Thinking, Cycle Of Life, Lessons

  Source: halftimeonline.net

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• Rap is purging itself from the things it didn't need and it's allowing the younger dudes to come up. With that being said you're always going to need people from that golden era.

  Mic Geronimo

  People, Needs, Golden

  Source: halftimeonline.net

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• I was djing before I was rapping. I was calling myself Mike Geronimo and spelling it like Mike but he was just like spell it M-i-c. I was like that's ill cuz it stands out.

  Mic Geronimo

  Calling, Cuz, Standing Out

  Source: halftimeonline.net

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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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• So for instance in rap music, you very often hear words that would seem very racist, or very misogynous or very homophobic but in some of those instances, the words are being taken back or redefined so that they lose their injurious quality.

  Judith Butler

  Taken, Quality, Racist

  Source: ilga.org

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• New York City pretty much reeked of music. Reeked of rap and hip-hop. As for me, growing up in a strict West Indian, Trinidadian household, and a Christian household as well, I had to fight for the right to go and actually be a part of it.

  Phife Dawg

  Christian, New York, Growing Up

  Source: www.hollywoodchicago.com

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• My battle raps couldn't get me groceries from the supermarket.

  Wyclef Jean

  Battle, Groceries, Supermarkets

  Source: djbooth.net

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• I've always had a passion for rap, and I might not be the greatest rapper, but I'm better than half of them out there.

  Tony Sunshine

  Passion, Half, Might

  Source: youknowigotsoul.com

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• It is a blessing. When I first got wind of [Chris Rivers] taking the rap thing serious and wanting to make a career out of it.

  Tony Sunshine

  Blessing, Wind, Careers

  Source: youknowigotsoul.com

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• I think rap was a better move for me but football's been my love since I learned how to walk. I was gonna be a running back or quarterback. That was my life. That was it but things happen for a reason. I wouldn't trade this in for nothing.

  Rakim

  Football, Running, Moving

  Source: halftimeonline.net

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• There's so many different ways to write a rhyme its stupid man. I don't understand why the majority of the rap game sounds the same.

  Rakim

  Stupid, Writing, Men

  Source: halftimeonline.net

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• I feel like battle rap is as popular as it's ever been, today. With Total Slaughter it's getting real popular.

  Ab-Soul

  Real, Battle, Today

  Source: www.hiphopcanada.com

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• Battle rap is a culture. That's boxing, it's like boxing.

  Ab-Soul

  Boxing, Battle, Culture

  Source: www.hiphopcanada.com

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• Not even battling but just really known for rapping. Like I had songs up on Soundclick first, take it back.

  Ab-Soul

  Song, Firsts, Known

  Source: www.hiphopcanada.com

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• As the times are changing, you don't hear as many sample issues with rap artists. Part of that has to do with production styles these days, but the nature of copyright is also changing as the internet becomes more of a giant.

  Girl Talk

  Artist, Times Are Changing, Issues

  Source: uproxx.com

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• I think America just needs to get real when it comes to the way our kids speak and communicate. They need to understand what happens in rap.

  Kanye West

  Real, Kids, Thinking

  Source: djbooth.net

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• [Clowns] gotten a really bad rap in the last few years. People have really given into their own fears and have celebrated their fears in that way. American Horror Story didn't help.

  Alan Tudyk

  Horror Stories, Years, People

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• Either I'm listening to rap music, getting hyped up to go out and do something, or I'm listening to church music.

  Hailey Rhode Baldwin

  Church Music, Listening, Church

  Source: www.glamour.com

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• I try to keep the music fresh in my head. And I don't always listen to rap; I listen to a little bit of everything: R&B, rock.

  Chamillionaire

  Rocks, Trying, Littles

  Source: pitchfork.com

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• For a long time I heard rap without paying attention, but it is still a way of life, even when you're a kid.

  Young Thug

  Kids, Long, Attention

  Source: theurbandaily.com

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• Lenny Bruce genius was the unique ability to investigate hypocrisy and expose social inequities in a street rap that was really a form of poetry.

  George Carlin

  Unique, Hypocrisy, Genius

  Source: reprints.longform.org

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• As much as people try to pit black entertainers against one another, because of the underlying feeling that there can't be two of us, or, all of us can't do well. That's what hurts rap the most, the fact that none of us are fighting to protect the door of those who run our industry. It's enough money for all of us.

  David Banner

  Running, Hurt, Fighting

  Source: www.okayplayer.com

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• Of course the concept is to give people samples to get them hooked, I get that. But to continuously give away our music, that's the reason why you don't see [many] rap award shows anymore, the reason that you don't see rappers in commercials anymore; because we have allowed our music to be devalued.

  David Banner

  Awards, People, Giving

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• My struggle and my story is very much so somebody that was just kind of [an] underdog. I didn't have any cosigns, I wasn't even really good at rap, I'm one of those dudes that was never just crazy and amazing, I had to work my f***ing ass off to get good at this stuff.

  SonReal

  Crazy, Struggle, Underdog

  Source: www.thecomeupshow.com

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