Quotes about rap
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. Ice T
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.
rap mean rocks
They thought we were just basically keeping ourselves underground on purpose. And it was just strange for people to approach music that way. And for rap, trying to get recognition, and be seen as a regular form of music like anything else. I mean, the Soul, R&B, Rock 'N Roll, they would dis the hell out of rap when it first came out.
rapper artist interesting
For me rappers and dancers are poets and artists and often times the most interesting performances are given by them.
rap people fans
Usually people who attack the rap are people who aren't even fans.
rap kids careers
I'm not trying to turn into Eddie Murphy, and just do kids movies the rest of my career. I'm going to still do a wide variety of movies, as well as do hardcore rap.
rap talking communicate
Rapping is talking and communicating, and that's always good.
rap hip-hop ask-me
You ask me, "Did I like Arsenio?" About as much as the Bicentennial.
rap thinking games
I think rap music is brought up, gangster rap in particular, as well as video games, every other thing they try to hang the ills of society on as a scapegoat.
rap hands bird
A bird in the hand is worth more than a Bush.
rap chests
Rap is just somebody getting something off his chest. That's all it is.
rap thinking people
I think my fans respect me for bein' as truthful and honest as you can be and still be Rap music and not be opinion music. It's still Rap, its still style, flavor, flair, and people just kind of like how I present myself and the things that I do.