Rap Quotes - Page 22

• Two things happened. The creative side of my career was harmed. When I'd sit down and write under the influence of coke, the ratio of pages kept to pages thrown out declined drastically. But onstage, when rapping about a feeling I already owned, I would sometimes get a burst of eloquence.

  George Carlin

  Writing, Careers, Two

  Source: reprints.longform.org

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• I think The Eagles single-handedly destroyed country music - well, now, country music has been killed by rap crossovers, so it's hard to say. Maybe we can just agree that money killed country music.

  John Doe

  Country, Thinking, Eagles

  Source: www.chicagotribune.com

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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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• I am a firm believer in playing the type of music that compliments the song the best. If it's a folk song make it sound like one. If it's a rock song make it sound like one, if it's a rap song take it off the record.

  William Clark Green

  Song, Rocks, Sound

  Source: countrymusicrocks.net

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• Rap music is a combination of many different arts to make something new. There's always been a stigma that its existence would be short and only appeal to a certain group - but it's the biggest music in the world.

  Chance the Rapper

  Art, Groups, Different

  Source: www.vanityfair.com

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• I personally respect Bobby. He does really well on stage. Although I don't think his raps are exceptional or that he has a wide spectrum, his ability to dominate the stage is good, and he has a cool style of hip-hop that rappers aren't able to achieve.

  Kim Nam-joon

  Thinking, Hip Hop, Style

  Source: kpopkfans.blogspot.com

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• Music was just played all around me, and I couldn't run from it. My pops, he never learned to sing, but he'd have his little drink on the side, and he'd put on the best of his hits - gangster rap or oldies - and he'd sing all day on his mic plugged up to the wall set-up. It's a trip. I've just seen that my whole life, so I've always just had a love for music. By the time I was 13, I really just jumped in it. And it's something I took on to have as a hobby.

  Kendrick Lamar

  Running, Wall, Hobbies

  Source: www.ebony.com

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• I always did poetry, and [rap music is] pretty much hip-hop melody with poems.

  Tiffany Foxx

  Hip Hop, Hips, Hops

  Source: www.ebony.com

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• Hip-hop is the music of the youth. It sort of has the same purpose as what we do, at least lyrically, because we both are communicating a message, just in different ways. Hip-hop artists talk, we sing. They rap forcefully, we sing gracefully.

  Amadou Bagayoko

  Artist, Different, Purpose

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• There are a lot of new sounds I've gone for, which I may not have been ready to go for in the past, especially moving away from just rapping. I really tried to push my songwriting side on this one. I think that, for better or worse, people have definitely been able to tell. Changing style is always gonna be a love/hate thing for people, but I love it all, and I can't please everyone so that's all that matters.

  Illy

  Hate, Moving, Thinking

  Source: acclaimmag.com

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• I've reinvented myself every year since 1998, and my style's still changing. It's grittier now. I always gotta try something new. I've grown up. Then I was rapping; now I do music, I write albums. But my distinctive voice and style, people still can't catch it. They're still asking me, "What were you saying on that song?".

  Keak da Sneak

  Song, Writing, People

  Source: pitchfork.com

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• If we were to see Western landay poems, we'd see them out of disenfranchised populations, maybe out of the legacy of slavery. Spirituals, rap music - that would be the space we'd find American landays in.

  Eliza Griswold

  Legacy, Slavery, Western

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• We just play whatever we're into. For a while there, we weren't listening to too much rap stuff, 'cause there wasn't anything interesting.

  Adam Yauch

  Interesting, Listening

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• I say as long as the individual stays creative and continues to come up with fresh new and exciting ideas, rap will be here. That's established. Simple. As far as what I want to do, I want to get busy, man. I want to rock 60,000 people. I want to rock the Superdome.

  LL Cool J

  Simple, Men, Long

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• I don't think I'm more politically-based as much as socially-based. My grandmother died on February 29th, and she kept all of my magazine and newspaper scraps, every interview. I've been in the newspapers since I was about 15 - not for rapping, but for real substantive stuff I was doing in the community, organizing around gang violence in the schools. So I had already made my grandma proud before I was on TV. I've always been who I am.

  Killer Mike

  Real, Grandma, School

  Source: pitchfork.com

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• My family have always supported my rap - and they know I love them when I rap about them - but I'm just Michael Jackson to them. They care more about me. I express my love for them in a much more personal way on this record. It's about our conversations; my fear, and their advice. I know my sisters are gonna hear "Willie Burke Sherwood", which is named for my grandfather, and cry. I used to do music for me, because my ego needed it, but now I'm doing music for my family and friends who helped me become a rapper.

  Killer Mike

  Advice, Ego, Grandfather

  Source: pitchfork.com

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• I didn't have to sell my soul for money. I didn't have to go through trap music; I could just help Ye write songs and get money from it. So I knew when I put my album out I could just be myself. Not saying I won't do a trap beat or rap over one, but that's just not what makes me. That's not all of CyHi.

  Cyhi the Prynce

  Song, Writing, Soul

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• Nobody wants to hear me rap.

  Joe Mauer

  Want

  "We Play 'Would You Rather' With Joe Mauer". Interview with Rafi Kohan, www.gq.com. March 21, 2011.

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• You know, most people called rap stupid when it started, and it was one of the most innovative music forms of its time.

  Dan Deacon

  Stupid, People, Form

  Interview with Chris Martins, music.avclub.com. April 15, 2009.

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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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• I never let the worst things in life get the best of me.
  So take these testes and, ummm...open sesame.

  King Sun

  Things In Life, Hip Hop, Best Of Me

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• Rapping is a vocal delivery, so you can do it without being part of hip-hop and not knowing what hip-hop is about.

  Ice T

  Knowing, Hip Hop, Hips

  Source: collider.com

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