Rap Quotes - Page 8

• 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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• 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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• A congressman is a pig. The only way to get his snout from the trough is to rap it sharply with a stick.

  Henry Adams

  Pigs, Way, Sticks

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• I love music.. everything from R&B to Rap to Modern Country.. I still haven't figured out my own personal vibe.. it was sort of Nora Jones then sort of electronic.. then country.. it is very hard to make it in the music industry so we shall see if I ever find the time to finish it!

  Amy Weber

  Country, Music Love, Modern

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• The biggest rap on me is that I don't find a Watergate every couple of years. Well, Watergate was unique. It's not something Carl Bernstein, I, or the Washington Post caused.

  Bob Woodward

  Couple, Unique, Years

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• I always knew that I would be some type of public figure, but I never knew that it would be rapping.

  Freddie Gibbs

  Would Be, Figures, Type

  "Freddie Gibbs Talks Major Label Saga, "Str8 Killa," Rapping DJs & Rick Ross". Interview with Toshitaka Kondo, www.complex.com. July 30, 2010.

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• By the time I got kicked out of school, I had nothing else to do but rap.

  Cyhi the Prynce

  School

  Source: www.complex.com

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• I sit with my toes in a brook, And if any one axes forwhy? I hits them a rap with my crook, For 'tis sentiment does it, says I.

  Horace Walpole

  Axes, Doe, Crooks

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• Rap isn't poetry, not least because it involves music and often other elements that aren't words. But the way poets in English use things like rhyme and meter, and the ways these conventions both do and don't apply to rap we try to lay out the rules for rap, in order to understand the techniques that artists like Jay-Z and Kanye employ.

  Andrew Hoberek

  Artist, Order, Trying

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• I was 14 years old when I started rapping and I was terrible. I fell in love with it though and when that happens with me I become super passionate and go all the way with it.

  G-Eazy

  Years, Passionate, Way

  "G-Eazy Interview: From the Bay to the Universe Tour Comes to SLC". Interview with Ellie Briggs, www.hercampus.com. November 13, 2014.

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• I think rap music is the sole reason for a lot of black acceptance in pop culture; because the music is very popular, it gets our image out in other ways than in movies.

  Ice Cube

  Acceptance, Thinking, Black

  Interview with Linda Saetre, believermag.com. January 1, 2004.

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• Just because someone raps, doesn't mean that's all they can do. A lot of people are multi-talented.

  DMX

  Mean, People, Can Do

  Interview with Jeff Otto, www.ign.com. March 25, 2004.

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• The trick with hip-hop-hip-hop is a sport. The only music that's really, really close to a sport. It starts off, "My DJ's better than yours. I can out-rap you, I can out-dance you, my graffiti piece is better than you." It's very competitive.

  Ice T

  Sports, Hip Hop, Graffiti

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• Until House came along I don't think the English made very good dance records, you know, there were very few really good English Rap records, whereas once House came along all of a sudden we started and now I think we probably lead the world, and have overtaken America in dance music.

  Fatboy Slim

  Dance, Thinking, America

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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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• You're insecure and need a blanket like Linus.

  King Sun

  Insecure, Hip Hop, Needs

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• This is hip-hop. If you've got something you want to rap about, just rap about it, man.

  Yelawolf

  Men, Hip Hop, Want

  "Yelawolf issues a challenge to Machine Gun Kelly" by D.L.Chandler, www.mtv.com. November 2, 2011.

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• Life is love, heartache and strain,
  Yet the strength to overcome it all keeps me sane.

  O.C.

  Heartache, Hip Hop, Overcoming

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• 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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• 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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• Some wish that I was gone, cause they know I'ma win.

  O.C.

  Winning, Hip Hop, Wish

  Song: My World

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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 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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• 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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