Rap Quotes

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

And to turn it into rap wasn't too difficult besides just rhymin' the last words of each line.

I mean I'll be retired from rap, so what I'll be doin' in rap will be for fun.

I'm a singer and a writer first. I started to rap by accident, being playful.

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

My character is meant to know nothing about rap, and not to like it very much, but I know about it, because my kids make me listen to it. There's some rap I do like very much. I like Eminem, Blackalicious.

When you're a little kid, you don't see color, and the fact that my friends were black never crossed my mind. It never became an issue until I was a teenager and started trying to rap.

I looked at the rap community like street kids wanting their own brand. But now I look at that period with the rappers in the 90s as a trend of the moment. What it taught me was never to follow a trend, because trends move on.