“Everybody was always telling me to rap and freestyle. I used to go to the park and spit on the mic. If I go to the park, they always gonna give me the mic.”
“Highbridge – everybody rap in Highbridge; everyone grew up rappin’ or playing basketball.”
“I’m rap’s vigilante. I’m out for justice.”
“As far as rap, I was more of a Mobb Deep guy rather than a Tribe guy.”
“My rap name as a kid was Big Tasty.”
“The rap against Tesla has always been of the ‘yes, but’ variety. Yes, it’s a fine artisanal designer and manufacturer of electric cars, and its CEO is one of the few business leaders alive for whom the label ‘visionary’ isn’t hyperbolic.”
“Rap is rhythm and poetry. Hip-hop is storytelling and poetry as well.”
“I think that rap is narrative, when it’s done right.”
“A lot of rap songs don’t usually have a lot of melody per se.”
“I understand the bad rap that 3-D is getting because the conversions are crappy and because the films aren’t designed for 3-D. It’s a completely different medium.”
“I love songwriting, and rap is part of my songwriting, but I’m not a rapper.”
“I don’t even really like rap music.”
“I think, British food, it’s had a bad rap.”
“Rap actually took root in the Negro community, and then in the Hispanic community, long before it impacted on the larger American community as a whole.”
“There is rap music in all my films. In ‘La Vie des Morts,’ there is rap music too. It’s because I’m French, and when it appeared in 1978, it was so new, it set off my musical imagination.”
“If women dabble in rap but they’re not rappers, to get from dabbling to doing it is really difficult, confidence-wise.”
“I wrote ‘Oath’ for Cher Lloyd because there were really no best-friend anthems out there. Not only did she love it, she wanted me to rap on it, too!”
“Rap helps me connect emotionally.”
“When Elton John sang a duet with the white rapper Eminem on a Grammy telecast, rap went mainstream. Massive parental headaches followed.”
“It’s difficult to wear such high Louboutins and also freestyle rap.”
“A lot of rap music can get repetitive.”
“The rap scene is so unique. Every rapper has to bring their own thing.”
“I’m just a Harlem dude that can rap, and people dig my style and persona.”
“Jay Z and Nas is probably my favorite rap beef because Nas was kinda quiet for a while.”
“I’m definitely tired of playing ‘Acid Rap.’ I’m definitely tired of playing ‘Juice.’”
“I don’t make Christian rap, but I am a Christian rapper.”
“I never really liked the idea of rap being a competitive thing. It’s not.”
“I don’t just rap – I sing and I dance as well.”
“I don’t like the fact that there are so few women in rap.”
“I could never rap, personally. I can’t even wrap presents.”
“Fruitcakes have a bad rap.”
“I love rap music.”
“I liked rap from a young age, from listening to MC Hammer and Vanilla Ice.”
“I came from the South Side of Chicago wanting to be a rap artist and make videos.”
“’Gangsta rap’ is a derogatory label.”
“I’m huge into ’90s rap. It’s my jam.”
“When you rap, you’re using all of yourself.”
“The most popular rap artists aren’t supposed to be rapping about being broke.”
“The fact that rap has a strict meter and stays to a click means that you have to make your thoughts concise.”
“I’m fascinated with the regionality of rap music.”
“The rap on Obama has been that he is a little too cool and aloof. The rap on Romney may be that he is just plain callous.”
“Single guys get a bad rap.”
“I haven’t done rap… I can’t do that too well.”
“When I got into rap I didn’t exactly win any popularity contests. I called myself Dee Dee King, after B.B. King, to the total dismay of my fellow Ramones.”
“Everybody was down on me saying I can’t rap, so I wanted to show everybody that I could actually do this. That’s what motivated me.”
“I really don’t think I have a genre, honestly, ’cause I make such different music even though it is rap.”
“I rap about life in general, particularly my life, unless telling a story.”
“K-pop is a weird term because K-pop has everything – rap records – it’s very pop-sounding; there are really boy-band-sounding records.”
“No, I can’t do rap music!”
“Odd Future’s like a network as opposed to like a rap group.”
“Lil B opened up the floodgates for Odd Future, and now rap has a huge Internet culture.”
“Who gave it that title, gangsta rap? It’s reality rap. It’s about what’s really going on.”
“RZA is one of the most unique individuals and rap artists that I have worked with.”
“Rap music deserves truth, and it deserves spontaneity.”
“Rap was my drug.”
“The Dallas rap scene is growing, and hopefully we get to a level like Houston – everybody supporting each other, building each other up to be great.”
“David Bowie’s my favorite musician. I love him above all, but I’m really into rap a lot right now.”
“After 2008, my brand of finance got a bad rap.”
“There are many collaborations I’d like to explore. One is to co-write a rap concerto with Eminem.”
“I still to this day get the most inspiration from rap lyrics.”
“My most revered hero is Robert Johnson. His lyrics are so consistent with rap: the danger, the boldness, the creativity.”
“KRS One and LL Cool J are the biggest influences in my rap career, along with Heavy D.”
“I’ll dance to anything: Bob Marley or rap.”
“’Pinata’ is a great rap record for jazz fans.”
“I don’t like rap that doesn’t have a story behind it.”
“You know that I can make hits. You know I can do all these rap records.”
“I was about nine years old when I first heard Wu-Tang’s ‘C.R.E.A.M.’ Before that, I didn’t know anything about rap or hip-hop. I was just into Korean pop.”
“I’m not a snob. I like ghetto rap and punk rock and all that stuff.”
“I want to be a rap icon.”
“When I was growing up, to be an emcee meant to write the most clever, intellectual, and wittiest rap. And that’s what we did.”
“I’ve studied rap in every borough.”
“I think Bhutanese food – long dissed by every food writer out there – has gotten a bum rap.”
“I am getting all this fame, but I don’t absolutely know what I should rap about.”
“I don’t really want to rap about money.”
“Rap is just somebody getting something off his chest. That’s all it is.”
“I don’t have to put out another rap record. I can do it at my casual pace.”
“You have to come in on a professional level to make it, otherwise you just can’t get into rap.”
“I want to be able to say that a rap career could be ten albums.”
“When I first got into the rap game, I had an early dream of unifying rappers.”
“We have groups that do that, but I can’t rap with the mentality of an 18 year old when I’m in my 30’s.”
“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.”
“I like Batman, I like basketball, and I like to rap.”
“The way I rap isn’t about me boasting. Rarely will I do that.”
“I like all types of music. Even though rap music is 80 percent of what I listen to, it’s not the only thing I listen to.”
“I’m very proud of what I was able to do during the ’90s, when baggy pants were in and East/West rap was relevant and all these different things.”
“In rap, as in most popular lyrics, a very low standard is set for rhyme; but this was not always the case with popular music.”
“Rap is just to me very annoying.”
“I’ve probably wanted to be a rapper since I was a teenager. I was an actor and comedian and stuff, but I always wanted to rap, it was another outlet.”
“I was a metalhead and then I was into the rap and then I was a metalhead again.”
“Rap music was a savior to me.”
“Rap music was and is, for me, everything.”
“The bar is so low in rap – mediocrity is king!”
“N.W.A. were the first great rap audio documentarians of the problems in our inner cities.”
“Nobody wants to hear me rap.”
“I always felt that rap didn’t cause crime; it just reflected it.”
“I’m not blowing my own trumpet here, but I made a rap song 20 years ago with Afrika Bambaataa.”
“My brother is 10 years older than me, so whatever he listened to is what I listened to, and it was all rap.”
“I rap about Memphis and what a dangerous spot that is.”
“I’m not very good with rap and things like that.”
“’Obsession’ has a bad rap.”
“I don’t even listen to rap. My apartment is too nice to listen to rap in.”
“I definitely think, generally, rap is misogynistic.”
“Moms in fiction and memoir get a bad rap.”
“Rap in general has never been my steez, but I like it.”
“I’m a singer and a writer first. I started to rap by accident, being playful.”
“I don’t just listen to rap.”
“Rap was more of a release for me, a journal.”
“My take on rap is driven by straightforward American southern rock and blues.”
“Rap is supposed to scare soccer moms.”
“Rap music is really good when you’re traumatized.”
“Maybe in Latvian one day I’ll rap a little bit, but definitely not in English.”
“Rap is something you live; hip hop is something you do.”
“When rap music needed to have a teacher, I became it.”
“Rap is no longer a pastime; this is a worldwide profession.”
“I kind of backed into rap music. I thought I was going to do comic books or graphic art.”
“Rap music is the only vital form of music introduced since punk rock.”
“I started DJing, breakdancing and MCing in the ’70s and I got my record deal in 1979 with ‘Christmas Rap.’”
“Mike Tyson and Kool G Rap had lisps – lisps always been cool!”
“Although rap is about boasting, it’s also about honesty and expressing your emotions.”
“I write poetry, and I put it to a beat – I mean, that’s what they call rap.”
“I can’t really rap the way rappers rap; I drive a 2002 Toyota Avalon.”
“I’m not ever going to stop rapping. I love rap.”
“There just hasn’t been a voice for that normal dude when it comes to rap.”
“I really didn’t want to rap; I was just a regular kid.”
“If I have a rap album I’m dropping, then I want it to be the best rap album.”
“I hate serious rap. It’s boring.”
“Most of my influences aren’t rap. I love Coldplay.”
“I think if you pick up a microphone and you rap, you’re a rapper.”
“When I was 13 years old, I was dressing in a rap style. And then I changed schools, and the rap style became old-fashioned, so I changed it completely.”
“It is a coincidence that Mathangi is the Goddess of Music and the spoken word, which can be rap.”
“Before I even started listening to rap music, I was really into metal and punk.”
“Consciousness rap – a term that I don’t think exactly exists but gets thrown around a lot – is not exactly popular.”
“I’m not really into rap.”
“My iPod will shuffle from rap to pop to rock to classical … It gets confusing!”
“B.I.G. was like the Alfred Hitchcock of rap. Like, this dude’s story form was so nuts.”
“Who else is putting seven figures down for unreleased rap tracks?”
“I think L.A. gets a bad rap. L.A. is the same as everywhere else.”
“I ain’t drop an album since I was 25. I rap way better. I’ve experienced way more.”
“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.”
“Rap is definitely a youthful expression.”
“It wasn’t really me who invented rap. I stole the idea from Aristide Bruant.”
“Rap is a gimmick, but I’m for the hip-hop, the culture.”
“I’m serious; I don’t, I don’t rap. I flow; I’m a flow-er. You’ve got rappers, you got MCs, and then you got flow-ers, I’m a flow-er.”
“Growing up, flute riffs was big in rap back then. It’s what I listened to.”
“I wanted to rap, but I needed beats. I couldn’t buy any, so I just made my own.”
“The rap community has been singled out as more homophobic than other groups, but I don’t think that’s right. It’s homophobic, all right, but no more so than the heavy-metal community or the Hollywood community or any other community.”
“The expression ‘livin’ large’ is taken from the rap vernacular, inspired by Donald Trump, who made the big dollars and flaunted them.”
“Now I listen to all kinds of music except rap, which all sounds the same to me.”
“With me and YG, he could rap a hook, and I could make a beat around it. Ten minutes, we done.”
“My girlfriend is rap. Music and albums and records and my kids.”
“I’ll always love rap, no matter what’s going on.”
“I don’t listen to much rap, really. I can rarely listen to a whole record of it, because musically, it’s very formulaic, and oftentimes it doesn’t have the best hooks on every track.”
“From the beginning of my rap career, since I was seen and heard, I always had a store.”
“We came up with TDE. As competitive as rap is, and as much as we’re trying to exceed the standards we set for ourselves, we take their wins as our wins, too.”
“Look at Pusha-T. He makes a certain type of rap music. ‘Daytona’ is that on the highest level.”
“There’s not too many one-producer rap albums. There are lot of one-producer rock albums… and country albums.”
“Anything that’s of any use, famous people get hold of it and take it for themselves and it gets a bad rap.”
“I think comics has this rap of being misogynistic, and that’s certainly not untrue.”
“I’ve always been a fan of music. I listened to a whole lot of oldies – I never really listened to rap music that much.”
“The watch everybody rap about, I have in real life.”
“A lot of the music, and especially rap, I don’t understand.”
“I’m a fan of hip-hop. I’m a fan of rap, so anything new that’s happening, I’m hip to it.”
“If you look at my rap sheet, it’s very long.”
“I tell people that the Clipse were the first Internet rap darlings.”
“Our music attracts the people that we rap about and make music about, and they come out and actually do it.”
“I’m a tremendous believer and supporter in hip-hop and rap.”
“I was an underground artist, but the underground status was successful. Coming from where I came from to see where rap is now, now artists are selling from a million to eight million copies.”
“My kids listen to rap, so I try to keep up with as much as I can.”
“I love rap.”
“I grew up playing in rock bands while I was listening to rap records. I like a lot of stuff.”
“Tales of Tacobella’ showed that I can rap.”
“Rap is only one end of a whole spectrum of verbal play and virtuosity. Rap is geared for aural pleasure.”
“In many countries, when I gave the name ‘Rap Monster,’ I often heard that it was ‘too much.’”
“I’ve been thinking of trying my hand at rap. I’ve been recording snippets on my BlackBerry.”
“If I could rap, that would be a sensation, but I can’t, you see, I’m just a Caucasian.”
“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.”
“I listen to music for emotion and I get zero emotion from rap.”
“I can rap, play ball, design T-shirts, all that.”
“I know I do swag rap also, but I also take it seriously. It’s like 50-50.”
“I got started as a producer first, but really, I feel my beats had more life than anyone could rap on them.”
“If we want to mumble rap, we can mumble rap.”
“I love rap, and I love the angst of hardcore music and punk rock.”
“I really want to learn how to rap. I know it sounds utterly ridiculous!”
“Rap actually comes out of punk rock, not black music.”
“Being from the South, I was really into Southern rap, but I listened to a lot of stuff from all over.”
“I’ve tried to rap, and I cannot do it.”
“I listen a lot to rap, and I’m inspired to take it, to use it in another way, to get the message across.”
“I love folk. I love rap.”
“When I was 16, I was rapping just to rap.”
“Bohm’s ‘ontological interpretation’ was so called because of the bad rap the word ‘ontology’ has had in our correlationist age. As a bit of a put-down.”
“My brother’s been producing rap music and hip-hop for maybe 10 years.”
“I am looking to get into the grime rap U.K. scene.”
“You might remember me from Eminem’s rap lyrics.”
“I mean I’ll be retired from rap, so what I’ll be doin’ in rap will be for fun.”
“I had this little rap group, and we were called ‘2 Too Many’… We used to hang out in front of Jazzy Jeff’s record studio every day.”
“I would say I’m a fan of late ’90s to early 2000s rap. That’s where I get all my inspiration from.”
“I don’t really listen to rap; I just like to rap.”
“Rap is really just too conventional. Everybody does the same thing. No one ever pushes the box.”
“I’m not crazy about the rap thing. Or house music.”
“What I’m trying to do is break the genre from what is rap and what is music.”
“On my mixtapes, I just rap. I just lay out a lot of situations.”
“One of the reasons I know how to handle my business is because I know can’t rely on rap.”
“This rap game is just WWF; everybody wants points off somebody else.”
“I don’t want to rap forever. But I want to be rich forever.”
“Anyone can rap if you’ve got brains. So I just went with it.”
“If I didn’t have a girlfriend, I’d have 10 girls at the studio, and they would make me not rap.”
“Scandinavian rap started in the ’90s, off the back of Run DMC, and it was a bunch of Swedish dudes doing the same thing.”
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