Rap Quotes

I have periods where I listen to regular rap, Jay-Z, Eminem and Lil Wayne. The next day I might have some Christian alternative music. The next day I have on some dance music. It all varies what I listen to.

I don't like the fact that there are so few women in rap.

I got tired of the Ramones around the time I quit and I really got into rap. I thought it was the new punk rock. LL Cool J was my biggest idol.

I'm not blowing my own trumpet here, but I made a rap song 20 years ago with Afrika Bambaataa.

I remember being told 'Someone's gonna make a fortune out of this rap thing' and thinking 'no way'.

Government workers often get a bad rap, but it's rare for them to receive much appreciation when government works.

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.

The whole world has changed much since the '80's. In the united States, rap music and country music dominate radio and that certainly wasn't the case in the early '80's.

Back in the day, if someone said that hip hop and rap was a fad, that was a joke to me because they just didn't know what they were talking about. In reality, there were so many people who didn't know what they were talking about it.

It would be pretty funny to see a Beverly Hills white girl with mad rap skills.

When you do rap albums, you got to train yourself. You got to constantly be in character.

Rap records don't make you feel good no more. Six months after release, it can't come back as a classic.

Now I listen to all kinds of music except rap, which all sounds the same to me.

A lot of rap songs don't usually have a lot of melody per se.

David Bowie's my favorite musician. I love him above all, but I'm really into rap a lot right now.

My take on rap is driven by straightforward American southern rock and blues.

Rap in general has never been my steez, but I like it.

At least the rap metal stuff is good, but it's not really my bag. I've been listening to the radio since we've been touring the past month, because we don't get it most of the time.

Say there's a white kid who lives in a nice home, goes to an all-white school, and is pretty much having everything handed to him on a platter - for him to pick up a rap tape is incredible to me, because what that's saying is that he's living a fantasy life of rebellion.

I'm fascinated by rap and by hip-hop. I think there's a lot of poetry in it. There's a lot of anger, a lot of social energy in it. And I think you'd better listen to it pretty carefully, 'cause it's important.

I kind of remember a friend of mine saying, like, you guys should make a rap record. You know, because we were already making punk records. We were a punk band. And I kind of thought, that's crazy.

The average rap life is two or three albums. You're lucky to get to your second album in rap!

I don't rap like nobody, I don't try to sound like nobody.

I've been a hip hop head forever. So when it turned out that we were gonna start getting celebrity guests for every show, I wanted rap guys from the get-go.

I don't like rap music at all. I don't think it's music. It's just a beat and rapping.

Rap was my drug.

I'll dance to anything: Bob Marley or rap.

It's bad poetry executed by people that can't sing. That's my definition of Rap.

You have film actors doing TV, rap stars doing TV, with everyone kind of crossing the line.

Rap actually comes out of punk rock, not black music.