Quotes about rap
rap ghetto ideas
Why shouldn't rap be esoteric, able to take in current events, history and criticism? I guess it's this old idea of containment - that rappers, because they're black, can't and shouldn't aspire to look outside the ghetto for influence. Saul Williams
rap gone done
I didn't ever want to make a rap album. I considered it too limiting. Now that's exactly what I've gone and done
rap ideas wish
I wish I was a rapper. There are certainly times when I wish I could just drop an album and channel all my ideas, anger, humor and energy into some music and be done with it. Todd Boyd
rap white people
There are poor white people who hear rap music and feel it is about them, because it is. That's why you have an Eminem and a Bubba Sparxxx and rappers like that. Russell Simmons
rap thinking artist
I think the rap community always tells the truth. And I think that it's important that we listen to their voices so we can have a roadmap, because artists - almost every single artist in hip-hop, they paint a picture of society that's overlooked. The misogyny, the racism, the violence, the homophobia, these are things that we try to avoid instead of dealing with. All of that I see it so often.
rap writing simple
If you want to say something profound, writing from your heartbeat is different than writing from the loud voices you get from music. If they're rapping from noise, it's about robbing people. It's that simple.
rap thinking culture
I think that's what made rap such a stable footprint in culture, that it's so honest.
rap guy style
Not that I want to put the entire rap music style down - I just don't like it. And I know somewhere there's gotta be another guy like that. There's gotta be a guy just like that - just like me. There's gotta be somebody, somewhere... Maybe, maybe an assassin type. Sam Kinison
rap character men
As far as anybody in the rap game ever tryin to assassinate my character, thats impossible. You talkin about a man who has always walked the walk and talked the talk. Suge Knight
rap community hackney
Hackney gets a bit of a bad rap, but it's the only place I've ever lived that felt like a community. I know my neighbours. Sharon Horgan
rap boys gangsta
To me, the 90's signaled the end of glam rock, the beginning of gangsta rap, and hopefully the beginning and end of boy bands. Shane West
rap ironic important
At 24 I decided that my life is enough for me, and I stopped looking for some other piece to complete it. I also learned how to needlepoint ironic cross-stitches of rap lyrics and gave them to my friends as presents. I’ll let you decide which is the more important revelation. Taylor Swift
rap giving hip-hop
Why give you the cure when the disease makes money? Talib Kweli
rap stupidity hip-hop
Consider me the entity within the industry without a history of spitting the epitome of stupidity.
rap play hip-hop
God gave us music, so we play with our words.
rap kids son
My kids are the most inspiring thing that pushes me. It used to be because they were born, and I had to take care of them. Now it's because my son raps, and he's better than me. So now I gotta keep up with him, you know what I'm saying?
rapper artist compliment
Being called a conscious rapper is quite a compliment. It's a great thing to be. But as an artist, my nature is to not be in a box.
rapper people vantage-point
I feel like people mislead themselves when they tell themselves they're into me because of the lyrics. From my vantage point, people aren't into me because of the content, because of the lyrics. Because there's a million of rappers who have great content.
rap writing deejays
Everybody could write, deejay, rap. Everybody could do it all.
rapper order ideas
Unfortunately hip-hop is so competitive that in order for fringe groups to get in, you gotta be better than whoever's the best. So before Eminem, the idea that there would be a white rapper that anybody would really check for was fantastic or amazing or impossible.
rap self hip-hop
They hope for the Apocalypse like a self-fulfilling prophecy Tell me when do we stop it? Do they ask you your religion before you rent an apartment? Is the answer burning Korans so that we can defend Islamics?
rapper white people
People didn't really take white rappers seriously until Eminem, because he was better than everybody. Like female emcees, you need to be like Lauryn Hill or Nicki Minaj or killing everything before somebody takes you seriously.
rap people want
I started rapping because I wanted people to hear what I have to say, I want as many people to hear me as possible, and I do everything in my power to make that pop.
rap opposites hip-hop
When I met you it was magic... We polar opposites, but attracted like we was magnets.
rap mean hip-hop
Just because no one can understand how you speak, Don't necessarily mean that what you be sayin is deep.
rap artist hip-hop
Nowadays rap artists coming half-hearted, Commercial like pop, or underground like black markets. Where were you the day hip-hop died? Is it too early to mourn? Is it too late to ride?
rap blessing essence
You gotta get back to your essence, Use your gifts and share your presence, Don't count your dollars 'til you count your blessings.
rap hip-hop disguise
Life without knowledge is death in disguise.
rap men hip-hop
If you ain't using all the talents God provided you with For the betterment of Man, understand, You ain't nothing but a waste.
rap math hip-hop
Do the math: You never settle for less than the whole if you knew the half.
rapper class names
I was like 14 and decided I wanted to be a rapper, so I needed a hip rapper name. I was with one of my friends in class and literally went through a thesaurus. I saw "temper" and thought, "I like this, but it's too much." My friend was like, "What about Tinie for tiny," and that was that. Tinie Tempah
rapper littles obsessed
When I got a little older I was obsessed Lil Wayne. But then it was just as many British rappers - Dizzee Rascal I would always listen to.
rap rocks boxing
If I'm boxing, I'll probably have rap on, or something a little more angry. If I'm lifting, maybe some rock 'n' roll. If I'm doing some cardio, something fast paced. Steven R. McQueen