Famous Quotes & Sayings

Bill Maher

What is Kanye West's message? Like most rap, "I am the greatest person ever and you're not." I used to call it affirmative action for the ego.

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.

Bill O'Reilly

When Elton John sang a duet with the white rapper Eminem on a Grammy telecast, rap went mainstream. Massive parental headaches followed.

Cass McCombs

I grew up in the suburbs and was raised on rap radio, so it took me a long time to stumble upon the acoustic guitar as a resource for anything.

Carlos Mencia

When white people wear baggy clothing and speak gibberish they're homeless, when black people wear baggy clothing and speak gibberish they're called rappers

We see very rapid consolidation in this market.

Scott McClellan

The United States is responding rapidly and robustly." ()

Don Cheadle

I used to record but just in my own studio or in my friend's back when I toyed with the idea of being a rapper.

DJ Quik

You never want to look like an old fart doing young rap music.

DJ Quik

I bet Eazy E is turning over in his grave, to see that some of ya'll done made gangsta rap gay

Dr. Dre

I been in the game for 10 years making rap tunes... Ever since honeys was wearing Sassoons.

Juicy J

If you look back, you get stuck in a year. I've seen rappers and singers get stuck in 2002 or 2005, and they can't get out.

Irwin Shaw

You have to expect the raps when you have achieved popularity as a writer

J. Cole

I still wanna rap better than everybody else, and I wanna say important things.

J. Cole

It's no coincidence that all the greatest rappers - whoever you put in your top five - I guarantee you they are great storytellers.

J. Cole

In hip-hop, there's not a lot of love. There's not a lot of love being spread. It's always like 'I'm stuntin' on you raps, or I'm better than you raps.' It's not a lot of 'Yo man, I idolize you raps.'

J. Cole

The music becomes more pure and soulful when it's true, and it has to be true these days with the way the internet works, and the way the game works, everyone wants authentic raps.

J. Cole

No rapper in the world from Jay-Z to Tupac to Biggie has 100 percent love on everything they do.

J. Cole

Rhyme patterns are nothing without meanings to the words. A lot of rappers can do those flows, but the raps aren't really about anything - which is cool sometimes, but to have the flow and the message is one of my favorite things.

J. Cole

I pay attention to lyrics and I know what rap fans care about. I try to write for the average listener and I'm conscious of the mainstream without selling out.

J. Cole

They say time is money but really it's not If we ever go broke, then time is all we got And we can't make that back, no you can't make that back

J. Cole

In this life ain't no happy endings; Only pure beginnings followed by years of sinning and fake repentance.

Harrison Ford

My character is meant to know nothing about rap, and not to like it very much, but I know about it, because my kids make me listen to it. There's some rap I do like very much. I like Eminem, Blackalicious.

Grace Slick

I don't want to see old people doing rap or rock and roll. It makes me cringe.

Namie Amuro

I'm not completely at ease at rapping, I can't do it well yet.

Slim Thug

It was mix tapes, that's my story, I did a lot of mix tapes, that's what I started doing when I was 17. I got with a hot DJ out here and you know Texas, the rap scene is different, everyone out here is on the Screw music.

Slick Rick

And to turn it into rap wasn't too difficult besides just rhymin' the last words of each line.

Slick Rick

Wassup dear? Sup babe? What street you by? On 5th Bout to hit the West Side High

Slick Rick

Let me spell my name out for you, it's Ricky: R: Ravishing, I: Impress, C: Courageous or Careless, K: for the Kangols which I've got, That I wear everyday and Y: Why not?

Skylar Astin

I loved doing Cee Lo’s Bright Lights in the Big City. That was definitely a favorite of mine, because I love to get all soulful. And a close second would be Flo Rida’s Right Round, because I could rap, which I’ve never really done before.

Snoop Dogg

I used to be focused on being the dopest rapper in the game, and then once that became what I was, I wanted something different, and I wanted to become the best businessman in the game. I wanted to learn how to master the business like I mastered the rap.