Rap Quotes

Celebrity is ridiculous and silly and it's mad that people like me are listened to - you know, rap stars and movie stars.

There's no way I can compete with someone who can write rap or rock and roll. Nor do I wish to. But I've always kept up to date with music changes. I worked very hard not to type myself.

Times were changing. Clothes were changing. Morals were changing. We went from romantic loves songs like I used to do to rock 'n roll. Now that has changed to rap. So, there's always a new generation with new music.

I don't like rap that you can't understand. The youth is so quick and alert.

When you talk about rap you have to understand that rap is part of the Hip-Hop culture.

Sometimes I feel like rap music is almost the key to stopping racism.

I always do my rap from the outside looking in. Like I do my rap as if I'm looking at me rap.

We're feminists. We're doing something that only guys are expected to do and doin' it right! At our concerts we'll do one hard-core rap song and then do one where we'll be real sexy.

I used to be focused on being the dopest rapper in the game, and then once that became what I was, I wanted something different, and I wanted to become the best businessman in the game. I wanted to learn how to master the business like I mastered the rap.

Rap music's been around for too long now to be inspirational. The words are, but the music isn't.

To me, the 90's signaled the end of glam rock, the beginning of gangsta rap, and hopefully the beginning and end of boy bands.

There are many collaborations I'd like to explore. One is to co-write a rap concerto with Eminem.

I'm also not going to explain something just because I said it in a rap. Take what you want from it.

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 could never rap, personally. I can't even wrap presents.

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.

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.

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.

My brother's been producing rap music and hip-hop for maybe 10 years.

You're not going to hear me do a rap song, you're not going to hear me do a jazz song. We have to be true to our roots, do what we do, and try to do it a little better each time.

They believed you can't mix rock, country, and rap, and that crossover is dead. I always knew it would work. And it will always work as long as you're really into it and like what you're doing.

I don't want to see old people doing rap or rock and roll. It makes me cringe.

I feel like the rap metal at the end of the 1990s destroyed rock music for everybody and suddenly everybody felt like they had to apologise for being in rock bands. People suddenly felt bad about wanting to reach massive audiences and the sense of theatre, that we have in our live show, became something to avoid.

Happiness has a bad rap. People say it shouldn't be your goal in life. Oh, yes it should.

They say you can rap about anything except for Jesus, that means guns, sex, lies, video tapes, but if I talk about God my record won't get played Huh?

Rap is hardcore street music but there are women out there who can hang with the best male rappers. What holds us back is that girls tend to rap in these high, squeaky voices. It's irritating. You've gotta rap from the diaphragm.

They say a midget standing on a giant's shoulders can see much further than the giant. So I got the whole rap world on my shoulders, they trying to see further than I am.

It's a joke to think that anyone is one thing. We're all such complex creatures. But if I'm going to be a poster child for anything, anger's a gorgeous emotion. It gets a bad rap, but it can make great changes happen.

I want to be able to say that a rap career could be ten albums.

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.