Rap Quotes - page 7

Hip-hop was my first audience - I would rap in the mirror, walk down the street and listen to my Walkman. (Derek Luke)
I'm huge into '90s rap. It's my jam. View quote
Danielle Fishel
The most popular rap artists aren't supposed to be rapping about being broke. View quote
Danny Brown
I treat clothing or a piece of jewelry like it was a piece of art, even though people who collect clothes get a bad rap because they're told it's all vanity. View quote
Daphne Guinness
It just happens to be that people like to associate poetry and rap music. I think that idea is kind of corny. View quote
Earl Sweatshirt
Odd Future's like a network as opposed to like a rap group. View quote
Earl Sweatshirt
When I was in south Sudan, people used to rap in my village. But the rapping was more in the mother tongue, Nuer. View quote
Emmanuel Jal
You know, jazz is the mother of all American music. R&B and pop and rap and everything are the branches on the main tree of the life of music, American music, which is jazz. View quote
Eric Burdon
David Bowie's my favorite musician. I love him above all, but I'm really into rap a lot right now. View quote
Ethan Suplee
There are many collaborations I'd like to explore. One is to co-write a rap concerto with Eminem. View quote
Evelyn Glennie
RZA is one of the most unique individuals and rap artists that I have worked with. (El DeBarge)
I was probably 15 when I started going to the studio with the older cats in my neighborhood. They heard me rap outside one time; I was just freestyling. And they invited me to the studio. It's good when you're accepted, no matter what crowd. That's the first step of believing you can do whatever you feel like putting your mind to. View quote
Future
My name is Imam Jamil Abdullah Al-Amin, the former H. Rap Brown. I am a devoted servant of Allah, and an unwavering devotee to His cause. For more than 30 years, I have been tormented and persecuted by my enemies for reasons of race and belief. View quote
H. Rap Brown
When I first got into the rap game, I had an early dream of unifying rappers. View quote
Ice T
An MC is somebody who can control the crowd. An MC is a master of ceremonies so not only can you say your rap, you can rock the party. View quote
Ice T
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. View quote
Ice T
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. View quote
Ice T
I want to be able to say that a rap career could be ten albums. View quote
Ice T
I don't feel that rap has been respected as an art form. Because people have seen rappers rap off the top of their heads, they don't think it is difficult. View quote
Ice T
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. View quote
Ice T
You have to come in on a professional level to make it, otherwise you just can't get into rap. (Ice T)
I don't have to put out another rap record. I can do it at my casual pace. View quote
Ice T
I still wanna rap better than everybody else, and I wanna say important things. View quote
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. View quote
J. Cole
People in my family and camp who grew up listening to rap music love 'We Are Young.' I've heard it play at weddings. I've heard it in graduation parties. It's a big idea and big song. View quote
Janelle Monae