Famous Quotes & Sayings

Big Sean

It has no color to it. If you can rap good, you can rap good. I look at Mac Miller, who’s one of my homies, and I look at Wiz Khalifa, who’s one of my homies, and I don’t look at Mac different because he’s white. He’s my homie.

Big Sean

Eminem was the biggest rapper in the world, but I didn't know Eminem and I didn't know anybody who knew Eminem.

Big Sean

I just knew what I wanted to be since the third grade. And I always did well in school, I was the type to get good grades, I never really got below Cs or nothing like that. I always kept it A-B. But there's no school for rap.

Big Sean

People in college, if you're getting recognized for getting good grades, you're finally famous. If you get recognized for playing the drums, if you're being recognized for making good ass beats, good ass raps, you're finally famous.

Big Sean

Lil Wayne is somebody who I used to ride to school listening to in my car. You know from Tha Carter to Tha Carter II, to Dedication 1 & 2, to Da Drought, his mixtapes. You know you got that for him as him being a rap legend, somebody who you look up to.

just if they have a rapport with me and how they feel about (me) running.

Bette Midler

Rap is poetry set to music. But to me it's like a jackhammer.

Chelsea Handler

According to Life & Style Weekly, 50 Cent may be working on Lindsay Lohan's next album. Finally, a match made in rap heaven. He's a convicted drug dealer who's been shot nine times, and she spent 84 minutes in prison. This is a big step for Lindsay. The last time Lindsay got near a black guy she ran over his foot.

Chelsea Handler

You got married recently to a rapper. It doesn't take them long to impregnate women.

We have some strong reservations about doing it as rapidly as it's being proposed.

Beck

In the past it seemed like I was making fun of rap a little bit. But it was more me making fun of myself, since I'm not technically a rapper, whatever that means.

John Entwistle

I can't stand rap....people who can't sing do rap....you can sing rebellion as well as talk it....Hitler would have been in a rap band.

Jimmy Fallon

At a recent education summit, President Obama admitted that he can't rap. When they heard, Americans said, 'Good!'

Kurt Cobain

Rap music is the only vital form of music introduced since punk rock.

Kesha

I'm a singer and a writer first. I started to rap by accident, being playful.

Kesha

I listen to a lot of rap where men talk a certain way about women and I'm not offended. It's meant to be funny. I'm throwing it right back at them with humor, but some people can't take it. They're not used to women talking back.

Kesha

Rap in general has never been my steez, but I like it.

Lois McMaster Bujold

Escapist literature gets a bad rap. But I think escape is important for a lot of people in a lot of places.

Lloyd Banks

If you stay in one place, you can only rap about one thing because that's all you know.

Ludacris

I really love when people come up to me on the street and say, 'You're my favorite rapper.'

Ludacris

The IRS'll never sweat me or even put up a fight... Cause I'm sure I've paid more in taxes than you've made in yo' life!

Ludacris

I told her, "I got the chips if you got the dip." She said when I dip, that I better be equipped and keep my hand on her hips...

Ludacris

I've been trying to nail it into everyone's heads that I feel like I am the most versatile rapper.

Ludacris

I'm just basically spillin' out my emotions to the world. 'Cause rap is about emotion. And I want you to feel what I'm feelin', 'cause that's what it's all about.

Ludacris

I make niggas eat dirt and fart dust, Then give you a $80 gift certificate to Pussies "Я" Us.

Ludacris

Watch out for the medallion, my diamonds are reckless, Feels like a midget is hangin from my necklace!

Lorde

Around the middle of last year I started listening to a lot of rap, like Nicki Minaj and Drake. They all sing about such opulence, stuff that just didn't relate to me-or anyone that I knew. I began thinking, 'How are we listening to this? It's completely irrelevant'.

Magnus Carlsen

I'm not really into rap.

French Montana

Whatever rappers wear is cool to people.

French Montana

All the lyrical rappers I know is broke,

Obie Trice

I just don't want to be rapping forever. I love it, but sometimes you got goals for yourself.

Ellen Goodman

I am a political recidivist. An incorrigible, repeat voter. A career lever-pusher. My electoral rap sheet is as long as your arm. Over the course of three decades, I have voted for presidents and school board members. I have voted in high hopes and high dudgeon. I have voted in favor of candidates and merely against their opponents. I have voted for propositions written with such complexity that I needed Noam Chomsky to deconstruct their meaning. I have been a single-issue voter and a marginal voter. I have even voted for people who ran unopposed. Hold an election and I'll be there.

Elmer Bernstein

There's no way I can compete with someone who can write rap or rock and roll. Nor do I wish to. But I've always kept up to date with music changes. I worked very hard not to type myself.