Famous Quotes & Sayings

Danny Brown

I used to rap as a kid and people were impressed by it, so it gave me the drive to keep going. Everybody has at least one talent. I guess this is my talent.

Cornel West

Rap is just a movement within the larger culture of hip-hop.

Common

I sit and think with a drink about how I'm gonna win...

Common

I am to hip-hop what Obama is to politics

Common

Burn a Bush cause for peace he no push no button. Killing over oil and grease, no weapons of destruction, How can we follow a leader when this a corrupt one?

Common

I wonder if these wack niggas realize they wack, And they the reason that my people say they tired of rap.

Common

I bathe in basslines, rinse in riffs, dry in drums

David Spade

Single guys get a bad rap.

Curtis Jackson

You can do all them push-ups to pump up your chest, I got a 12 gauge Mossberg to pump up your chest, Have you gasping for air after that shell hit your vest. Fear me like you fear God, 'cause I bring death.

Curtis Jackson

Because hip-hop has no requirements, you deal with people that have the least intelligence on the planet. Some of the people that compare themselves to me, compare themselves to me because they rap and I rap. They can't even read the contracts that they sign to be a rapper, to do the deal.

Curtis Jackson

I done been to the pearly gates, they sent me back said the good die young I ain't eligible for that

Curtis Jackson

You shouldn't throw stones if you live in a glass house and if you got a glass jaw, you should watch yo mouth: cause I'll break yo face.

Craig Brewer

I've done movies where I've had to cast actors and teach them to rap, and cast rappers and teach them to act.

David Lee Roth

Rap is poetry to music, like beatniks without beards and bongos.

David Levithan

Now when I have to remember a date, all I have to do is consult my rap sheet.

Anthony Mackie

There was this rapper from New Orleans, Mystikal, who when I hear his music, I hear myself. Whenever I wanna get hyped, I put on Mystikal.

Angie Martinez

Imagine the first time you are about to rap in a studio and you find yourself in a booth with Redman and KRS!

Anthony Anderson

You take the quote from Sam Jackson about how he'll never work with a rapper, and I can understand where he's coming from because he says rappers can't act.

Started from the trap, now I rap

If I wasn't rapping I'd be trapping

Bjork

Icelandic peoples were the ones who memorized sagas... We were the first rappers of Europe.

We see very rapid consolidation in this market.

Adi Godrej

When you are growing at a rapid rate, there is bound to be some inflation. I think a 5% rate of inflation is something that we should take in our stride.

We are working rapidly ... to remedy the situation.

I'm not interested in overexpanding rapidly for expansion's sake.

F. Lee Bailey

In America, an acquittal doesn't mean you're innocent, it means you beat the rap. My clients lose even when they win.

Mekhi Phifer

When break dancing was out, I break danced. When rapping was the thing, I freestyled rap on the street and battled and all that kind of stuff.

Big Pun

I'm pretty sure people thought I was like a dope rapper.

Big Pun

I don't want to be considered 'the Latino rapper.

Big Pun

Mark you for death, won't even talk that East or West crap. From Watts to Lefrak, it ain't where ya from, it's where's your gat.

Big Pun

I have to be perfectly honest: You should have an anniversary to acknowledge the way I work the ebonics.

Big Pun

I'm mostly concentrating now on continuing to make history in Hip-Hop, making everybody proud of me, I'm not just a rapper now, I'm in history now.

Big Pun

...in the middle of Little Italy little did we know that we riddled some middleman who didn't do diddily