Rap Quotes - Page 7

• If Dr. King marched today, would Bill Gates march?
  I know Obama would, but would Hillary take part?

  Jayceon Terrell Taylor

  Kings, Hip Hop, Drs

  Song: Letter To The King

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• It's the principle of it, I get a rush when I bust
  Some dope lines oral, that maybe somebody'll quote.
  That's what I consider real in this field of music,
  Instead of puttin' brain cells to work, they abuse it.
  Non-conceptual, non-exceptional,
  Everybody's either crime-related or sexual.
  For those who pose lyrical, but really ain't true, I feel:
  Their time's limited, hard rocks too.

  O.C.

  Real, Dope, Rocks

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• I'd rather be broke and have a whole lot of respect.
  It's the principle of it.

  O.C.

  Hip Hop, Principles, Broke

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• I like my raps but I'm never too happy with some of 'em because I feel like they could be better. But every time I hear my flow on that song I wow myself.

  Tyler, The Creator

  Song, Ems, Wow

  Source: pitchfork.com

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• Аfter all the beats and rhymes, I felt like everybody around me was rapping and so I was like.

  Jeremih

  Beats, Rhyme, Felt

  Source: www.nbcnews.com

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• With rap music, because it's all so on the street, you get treated like a street cat: "All right, you've been eatin' enough, you're fat, get out of the way now and let somebody else come by."

  Nas

  Cat, Way, Enough

  Interview with Ryan Dombal, pitchfork.com. December 6, 2006.

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• The Rolling Stones are truly the greatest rock and roll band in the world and always will be. The last too. Everything that came after them, metal, rap, punk, new wave, pop-rock, you name it... you can trace it all back to the Rolling Stones. They were the first and the last and no one's ever done it better.

  Bob Dylan

  Rocks, Rock And Roll, Names

  Interview with Bill Flanagan, www.telegraph.co.uk. April 13, 2009.

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• When I make the music that I make, when it comes to reggae music, I engulf the whole spirit of it all. It's just like when I do rap music or whatever style of music I do, I have to engulf the character I do and bring that to life.

  Snoop Dogg

  Character, Style, Spirit

  "Q&A: Snoop Dogg and Diplo on Jamaican Inspiration, Bob Marley's Legacy". Interview with Jeff Rosenthal, www.rollingstone.com. July 31, 2012.

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• Men who cannot believe in the mystery of our Saviour's redemption can believe that spirits from the dead have visited them in a stranger's parlour, because they see a table shake and do not know how it is shaken; because they hear a rapping on a board, and cannot see the instrument that raps it; because they are touched in the dark, and do not know the hand that touches them.

  Anthony Trollope

  Believe, Dark, Men

  Anthony Trollope (1995). “The New Zealander”

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• Footballs, basketballs, microphones, gas and grass...
  Just some of the few things that J-Ro likes to pass.

  J-Ro

  Basketball, Football, Hip Hop

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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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• 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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• My fans will tell you all day that I can rap. That's all I need.

  Kid Cudi

  Fans, Needs, I Can

  "Kid Cudi's Complex Cover Story: The Outtakes". Interview with Joe La Puma, www.complex.com. October 12, 2010.

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• If we but give it time, a work of art 'can rap and knock and enter our souls' and re-align us - all our molecules - to make us whole again.

  P. K. Page

  Art, Giving, Soul

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• Craft' gets a bad rap. Mediocre art is not caused by craft; it is caused by artists. Good art employs whatever craft works best.

  Walter Darby Bannard

  Art, Mediocrity, Crafts

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• Everything has a price...
  No matter if it's fortune, fame or your life.
  I understood later that it's all about paper,
  Everything has a fee in the land of the free.

  O.C.

  Land, Hip Hop, Paper

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• So why you pushin' it? Why you lyin' for? I know where you live,
  I know your folks, you was a sucka as a kid.
  Your persona's drama that you acquired in high school in actin' class,
  Your whole aura is plexiglass.
  What's-her-face told me you shot this kid last week in the park;
  That's a lie, you was in church with your moms.

  O.C.

  Mom, Drama, Lying

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• Ya see I'm Irish, but I'm not a leprechaun.
  You wanna fight, then step up and we'll get it on!

  Everlast

  Fighting, Hip Hop, Steps

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• I do not care a rap as to who gets credit for the work, provided the work is done.

  Theodore Roosevelt

  Care, Credit, Done

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• Rap's the occupation, but one day watch I'll be Pimp of the Nation.

  Kid Rock

  Future, Pimp, One Day

  Song: Pimp of the Nation, Album: Grits Sandwiches for Breakfast, 1990

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• Everything that’s out now…rap wise and music wise in general [is whack]. I mean, you know whack when you see it. So I’m on a crusade against whackness, and I hope no whackness comes my way. That’s my move, my mission for this record: to combat whackness on all fronts – to make sure that people know what quality music is. It’s not so much about message, but have something to say.

  Jeru the Damaja

  Wise, Moving, Mean

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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 just appreciate what Andre 3000 has done musically - just the bravery. I think Andre 3000 may be one of the bravest artists in rap music.

  Nas

  Artist, Thinking, Appreciate

  Source: pitchfork.com

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• Jay-Z and Kanye West are to authentic rap culture what diseased rates were to 14th century Europeans

  Dean Cavanagh

  Culture, West, Century

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• Everyone who raps isn't hip-hop. To be hip-hop, you've got to know the culture. You got to know the history.

  Ice T

  Hip Hop, Culture, Hips

  "Ice-T focuses on rap craft in 'The Art of Hip-Hop'". Interview With Jonathan Landrum Jr., www.sandiegouniontribune.com. June 15, 2012.

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