Quotes about rap
rap arms trouble
My life owes me. Like an overdose, I'm slowly Drifting into the arms of trouble, then trouble holds me K'naan
rap blood hip-hop
It's ninety-six degrees in the shade... Before I catch blood on my blade. Keith Murray
rap ghetto angel
Do some good to the ghetto, Mr. Kris Kringle. Come and stay awhile, kick it with God's Angels. Take and acknowledge my wisdom and understand That Santa Claus is a black man.
rap hip-hop causes
I'm not sayin I'm a pothead, cause I'm not. I'm just sayin that I smoke a lot.
rap cereal hip-hop
Got more milky syllables than alphabet cereals.
rap hip-hop musical
Y'all mythological niggas is comical, The astronomical is comin' thru like tha flu bombin' you... And embalmin' in your crew, too. With the musical, mystical, magical, you know how I do.
rap littles said
Rap-so many words, so little said. Keith Richards
rap music-is rap-music
Rap music is really good when you’re traumatized, Kim Gordon
rap trouble streets
Before rap came along, I was, actually, actively in the streets; getting in trouble, doing the wrong thing. Ice T
rap rocks guitar
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.
rap knowing hip-hop
Rapping is a vocal delivery, so you can do it without being part of hip-hop and not knowing what hip-hop is about.
rap thinking flavor-of-the-month
What's bad for the culture is wack rappers that get held in high regard like they're some great thing because it's the flavor of the month, but everybody knows they can't rap. I don't think it's hard, even for somebody who's not hip-hop, to know that that's not good. When you put them up against somebody that can really rhyme, you go, "Okay, I get it. This is what it should sound like."
rapper weak behinds
Truthfully, a weak rapper can hide behind a lot of production.
rap hip-hop hips
Everyone who raps isn't hip-hop. To be hip-hop, you've got to know the culture. You got to know the history.
rap writing stuff
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.
rap hard-work play-hard
When I got a chance to rap, I just busted my ass. When I got a chance to act, I busted my ass. Anytime I get a chance. I'm not wasting time. I won't do it if I'm not doing it 110 percent. You've got to work hard if you want to play hard. I like to play, but I know I gotta bust my ass.
rap cat writing
As long as I'm around the cats in the hip hop scene, they'll throw me a track and I'll write a rap over it.
rap thinking artist
I think that a rap aficionado, the hardcore rap fan, will always go away from pop, in the same way a hardcore jazz fan will never think Kenny G is really a jazz artist. You gotta kind of know there's always going to be that purist who's going to be like if it ain't beats and rhymes, if there ain't a DJ, then that ain't Hip Hop.
rap long hip-hop
I'm at a point where I don't have to wait for the income from the record to survive, so I'm in a comfortable zone, but I'll make rap records as long as I feel I have something to rap about.
rap mean writing
Jay-Z is like a rap-savant, he doesn't have to write the rhymes down, he can create complex raps in his head. I mean he does memorize it, he just doesn't write it down on paper. He doesn't freestyle onto the track, it's all thought out.
rap pace records
I don't have to put out another rap record. I can do it at my casual pace.
rap kids crowds
A lot of the younger kids now can rap, but they're scared of the crowd. Mastery of that stage is an MC. I don't know if you've seen any great MCs on stage but when you do it's like wow, this is more than the words to rhymes.
rap careers want
I want to be able to say that a rap career could be ten albums.
rapper lines fronts
I'm on the front line and I am a rapper.
rap levels
You have to come in on a professional level to make it, otherwise you just can't get into rap.
rap rapper ifs
If you're really a rapper, you can't stop rapping.
rap stories way
Rap music came along and saved my life. I started to tell the stories of the streets and that was my way out.
rap cat thinking
I look at my career and I feel I have the potential to maybe mature into a Samuel Jackson-type older cat, and people will still respect me and say 'Yo, Ice-T was wild', into my old age. And why not? I don't necessarily think I'll be rapping in 10 years.
rap artist doors
It's just that when you heard hip-hop, no matter where you were, it was a culture that kind of made you want to try to be part of it. Whether you thought you were an artist, whether you thought you could be a DJ, whether you thought you could breakdance, or whether you thought you could rap. It was the kind of culture that had a lot of open doors.
rap acceptance thinking
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
rap hip-hop devil
You the devil in drag. You can burn your cross, Well, I'll burn your flag...
rap issues needs
We come from the days when rap used to agitate the mainstream. Now it's more buddy-buddy. That doesn't sit well with me. So what we need is [a bit more] street politics, bringing up issues, agitating you a little bit. And nothing can agitate you more now than a terrorist threat.
rap people path
Whatever happened in the neighborhood. That's what I was rapping about. And that sparked people's interest. And that's what kind of put me on that path.