Rap Quotes

I got tired of the Ramones around the time I quit and I really got into rap. I thought it was the new punk rock. (Dee Dee Ramone)
I don't even listen to rap. My apartment is too nice to listen to rap in. View quote
Kanye West
I was a metalhead and then I was into the rap and then I was a metalhead again. View quote
Jason Mewes
Rap music is the only vital form of music introduced since punk rock. View quote
Kurt Cobain
I don't like rap music at all. I don't think it's music. It's just a beat and rapping. View quote
Nina Simone
But, Eminem... No, I've loved rap for a long time, especially when it got out of its first period and became this gangsta rap, ya know this heavy rap thing? That's when I started to fall in love with it. I loved the lyrics. I loved the beat. View quote
Alan Vega
Rap is a gimmick, but I'm for the hip-hop, the culture. View quote
Method Man
Rap music is just computerised crap. I listen to Top of the Pops and after three songs I feel like killing someone. View quote
George Harrison
If, after obtaining Buddhahood, anyone in my land gets tossed in jail on a vagrancy rap, may I not attain highest perfect enlightenment. View quote
Gary Snyder
I have tried... believe me, I have tried to like rap music. It makes me feel so very, very old. I have tried to get home with the downies. View quote
Dylan Moran
Woman stock is rising in the market. I shall not live to see women vote, but I'll come and rap on the ballot box. (Lydia Maria Child)
[Chicago is] the only major city in the country where you can easily buy your way out of a murder rap. View quote
Nelson Algren
When Elton John sang a duet with the white rapper Eminem on a Grammy telecast, rap went mainstream. Massive parental headaches followed. View quote
Bill O'Reilly
Rap is from the streets and I'm from the streets. That's why a lot of people accept me. View quote
Vanilla Ice
I understand what rappers are talking about. I think rap is less about educating people about the black community and more about making money. View quote
Dennis Rodman
I was mostly surprised by the rap artists, actually, that were influenced by Sabbath. That was a surprise. But it's very nice and I'm very honored. It's nice to know after 27 years now that what I said in the first place has stuck, and that was the belief in it. View quote
Tony Iommi
Happiness has a bad rap. People say it shouldn't be your goal in life. Oh, yes it should. View quote
Richard Dreyfuss
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. View quote
Dee Dee Ramone
I think it's a mistake where rap music is these days. It doesn't seem to be able to look out of the ghetto and that's ultimately unfortunate, because it defines our limitations. View quote
Saul Williams
Why shouldn't rap be esoteric, able to take in current events, history and criticism? I guess it's this old idea of containment - that rappers, because they're black, can't and shouldn't aspire to look outside the ghetto for influence. View quote
Saul Williams
You have film actors doing TV, rap stars doing TV, with everyone kind of crossing the line. (Anthony Michael Hall)
In rap music, even though the element of poetry is very strong, so is the element of the drum, the implication of the dance. Without the beat, its commercial value would certainly be more tenuous. View quote
Archie Shepp
I'm also not going to explain something just because I said it in a rap. Take what you want from it. View quote
Azealia Banks
When I rap, it's just an extension of how I speak, and that's how I talk. If you don't like it, don't listen. View quote
Azealia Banks
Rap is rhythm and poetry. Hip-hop is storytelling and poetry as well. View quote
Ajay Naidu