Rap Quotes - page 5

I am looking to get into the grime rap U.K. scene. (Tom Felton)
I'm really a singer, so I love songs and I love singing. I like rap music, but I didn't grow up freestyling. View quote
Billy Idol
I have a very broad demographic, from the 8-year-old who knows every word to 'Ice Ice Baby' and the college kid who grew up on 'Ninja Rap' to the soccer mom and grandparent. View quote
Vanilla Ice
Rap is always evolving. It's easy for the old school to hate the new school, but it's a music that got a little stifled I think, by the Internet a little bit. View quote
Ice Cube
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. View quote
Ice Cube
But with rap music - not just N.W.A. - but rap music in general, seeing these artists wearing these team logos all the time started bringing a synergy and energy about having to rep your city, your team, everywhere and all the time. View quote
Ice Cube
Rap is just somebody getting something off his chest. That's all it is. View quote
Ice Cube
I don't want a perfectly safe weapon. I want a dangerous weapon that hurts people.” He took the stick from her, rapped it against her head. She howled and he nodded. "See? It hurts people. View quote
Derek Landy
Lula had Eminem cranked up. He was rapping about trailer park girls and how they go round the outside, and I was wondering what the heck that meant. I'm a white girl from Trenton. I don't know these things. I need a rap cheat sheet. View quote
Janet Evanovich
Speculators get a bad rap. In the popular imagination they're greedy, heedless, and amoral, adept at price manipulations and dirty tricks. In reality, they often play a key role in making markets run smoothly. View quote
James Surowiecki
Since the 1960s, mainstream media has searched out and co-opted the most authentic things it could find in youth culture, whether that was psychedelic culture, anti-war culture, blue jeans culture. Eventually heavy metal culture, rap culture, electronica - they'll look for it and then market it back to kids at the mall. (Douglas Rushkoff)
Sonnymoon and Quadrants are a couple of bands that really inspire me in terms of the melodics of things and certain tones and just what feels good. It takes me back to the type of music that I grew up on in my household. We played a lot of gangsta rap, but we also played a lot of oldies, and I think that mix is part of what inspires my sound. View quote
Kendrick Lamar
My whole thing is to inspire, to better people, to better myself forever in this thing that we call rap, this thing that we call hip hop. View quote
Kendrick Lamar
I stand up for other people, I'm very protective of people around me. If I feel like somebody is getting a bad rap or being unfairly picked on, I will stand up for them, absolutely. View quote
Christina Ricci
I'm a tremendous believer and supporter in hip-hop and rap. View quote
Quincy Jones
If you stay in one place, you can only rap about one thing because that's all you know. View quote
Lloyd Banks
When I read the script for GODZILLA VS. SPACE GODZILLA, it reminded me of teenage idol films. In addition, the movie was going to have rap music in it. So, I thought, "Well, this is not my world, so I better not score this one." View quote
Akira Ifukube
Rap is the only interesting music left - it's the only genre that's still pushing itself, and experimenting in a way that I find exciting. View quote
Harmony Korine
You can still make music that people love, but there won't be more innovation. I started listening to electronic music a long time ago. But mostly I listen to rap. I think rap is the most interesting. View quote
Harmony Korine
Punk never got into my heart. You hear the anger now in rap, for example, but it's different and I like that very much. Eminem is one of my favourites. View quote
Anni-Frid Lyngstad
I couldn't do rap. I was trying. I don't know how. I'm not good enough to know. (Dee Dee Ramone)
I loved rap, especially in the early days. But I wasn't trying to shove it down anybody's throats. View quote
Dee Dee Ramone
I haven't done rap... I can't do that too well. View quote
Dee Dee Ramone
The difference between blues, jazz, rock n' roll and rap is that rap stayed poor. Even the white rappers are poor. It's scarier to look at poor people; it makes everyone uncomfortable. Their pain is something that people would like to see swept under the rug. View quote
Russell Simmons
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. View quote
Saul Williams