Rap Quotes

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.

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.

Rap is poetry to music, like beatniks without beards and bongos.

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 think stuff on the radio is mostly good, but it's just not what I'm into. I'm not into rap metal.

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.

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 rap about my car. How generic is that? Be creative.

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.

I live in New Jersey now, which always gets a bad rap here and there, but I must say, I enjoy living here too.

Rap is just somebody getting something off his chest. That's all it is.

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.

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.

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.

In the past it seemed like I was making fun of rap a little bit. But it was more me making fun of myself, since I'm not technically a rapper, whatever that means.

I understand what rappers are talking about. I think rap is less about educating people about the black community and more about making money.

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 far as anybody in the rap game ever tryin' to assassinate my character, that's impossible. You talkin' about a man who has always walked the walk and talked the talk.

The biggest rap on me is that I don't find a Watergate every couple of years. Well, Watergate was unique. It's not something Carl Bernstein, I, or the Washington Post caused.