Rap Quotes - Page 10

• I would say I started rapping because my friends were doin it.

  Action Bronson

  My Friends

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• I gotta learn to rap.

  Scott Disick

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• I just consider myself an artist. I dont really rap. I dont really sing. I just do what I feel is good, and people like it.

  Fetty Wap

  Artist, People, Feels

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• I never really thought I was going to be a singer, honestly. I never listened to singers; I always listened to rap music.

  Fetty Wap

  Singers, Rap Music, Honestly

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• Rap music came along and saved my life. I started to tell the stories of the streets and that was my way out.

  Ice T

  Stories, Way, Streets

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• They sought out rap music to attack, but you don't hear that anymore because it made too much money. They use Che Guevara to sell soft drinks. If something comes out that is radical and it's successful, then it's no longer radical. It's co-opted.

  John Landis

  Successful, Soft Drinks, Use

  Source: collider.com

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• I feel like science fiction can get a bad rap sometimes because people make something just to throw an alien in it or just to make it weird, and it doesn't really have a story.

  Drew Roy

  People, Fiction, Stories

  Source: collider.com

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• My name came from me wanting a 'double-letter' artist name. In search of the ultimate L-word to put in front of my real name Luke, I heard Snoop Dogg rapping in Gin and Juice 'Laaaaiiidbackk...' and I was sold!

  Laidback Luke

  Real, Artist, Names

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• Jazz isn't as profitable for labels like Hip hop or Rap. Jazz needs subsidies to continue, just like European classical works of Bach and Beethoven are subsidized.

  Jimmy Heath

  Hip Hop, Needs, Labels

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• I've found, across the board, that comedians have been very respectful and kind to me. And that seems to stem from the fact that they are just respectful and kind people in general. Comedians get a bad rap for being dark and anti-social I think.

  Bo Burnham

  Dark, Thinking, People

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• I do lots of weird voices and I kind of act out my raps. That's something that's always been in me.

  Nicki Minaj

  Voice, Kind

  Source: slumz.boxden.com

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• All rappers predominantly sound the same and want you to think their meanest person in the world, and that they're all gangster and all that. My acting allowed me to be playful and crazy, and it helps me tell stories and all that. I think it's a good time; rap needs that kind of stuff.

  Nicki Minaj

  Crazy, Thinking, Acting

  Source: slumz.boxden.com

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• The government hates rap. That's why they don't arrest anybody that kills rappers! Only the good ones are dead, man! Only the good ones: Biggie dead, Tupac dead, Vanilla Ice still alive! They don't fill out a police report. They don't even have a chalk line when it's a dead rapper, they just take a piss around the body.

  Chris Rock

  Funny, Hate, Humor

  "Chris Rock: Never Scared". TV Special, April 17, 2004.

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• If you wanna get away with murder, all you gotta do is shoot somebody in the head and put a demo tape in their pocket! 'This is a rap killing! Let's get outta here!'

  Chris Rock

  Funny, Home, Humor

  "Chris Rock: Never Scared". TV Special, www.imdb.com. April 17, 2004.

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• I have tried... believe me, I have tried to like rap music. It makes me feel so very, very old. I have tried to get home with the downies.

  Dylan Moran

  Funny, Believe, Home

  "Dylan Moran: Monster". Video, November 15, 2004.

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• I don't like people being something that they ain't, and we got a lot of that in rap right now.

  Freddie Gibbs

  People, Right Now

  Source: pitchfork.com

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• This is the industry that wants [music], the rap industry. You have to be on deck all the time, but you do not have the time to do the album. It is an energy, it must be present in everyday life.

  Young Thug

  Everyday, Energy, Albums

  "We Translated Young Thug’s French Interview So You Don’t Have To" by Carl Lamarre, theurbandaily.cassiuslife.com. September 8, 2015.

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• You must not you worry about leaks or pieces [stolen] on your computer. You just make songs, you gotta make music, keep stuff out. You may not know rap, but that's how it works.

  Young Thug

  Song, Worry, Pieces

  "We Translated Young Thug’s French Interview So You Don’t Have To". Lesinrocks.com Interview, theurbandaily.cassiuslife.com. September 8, 2015.

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• I always knew I could rap, and in a sense I always rapped. And I've always behaved like a rapper. But I started to take it seriously when I recorded with the people of Brick when I started to receive some money.

  Young Thug

  Rapper, People, Bricks

  "We Translated Young Thug’s French Interview So You Don’t Have To". Interview with Carl Lamarre, theurbandaily.cassiuslife.com. September 8, 2015.

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• Not only the brothers on the street but the middle class brothers are also identifying with the gangster rappers because of the extent to which this music circulates. It becomes possible for the - not only the young middle class men, but it becomes possible for young middle class white men and young men of other racial communities to identify with the misogyny of gangster rap.

  Angela Davis

  Brother, Men, White

  Frontline Interview, www.pbs.org. 1997.

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• I always loved rapping ever since Snoop said "1-2-3-4," I was repeating lines, but I didn't start writing my own lyrics until I was twelve.

  Fashawn

  Writing, Lines, Twelve

  Source: www.sfcritic.com

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• I guess people would categorize hipster rap just by how people look, skinny jeans and fashion rap. I was never that. In my music I never put the emphasis on clothes.

  Fashawn

  Fashion, Hipster, Jeans

  Source: www.sfcritic.com

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• It's important for me to try to find new ways to express myself, but at the same time, have integrity, and still be me, and not lose myself in the midst of this crazy Rap that I'm in. It's important, it's critical, to just try things out. I think, mainly, it's just me being fearless, and not being afraid to conquer anything that comes in my path, I guess.

  Fashawn

  Integrity, Crazy, Thinking

  "Gunplay: Going Against the Grain". Interview with Jake Paine, crazyhood.com. May 19, 2018.

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• If you ever fall off, freestyling is what gets you back on track and go. Freestlying ain't always just to rap; you might fall off and you gotta come back. That's what freestyling is all about. Come off the dome with whatever is on your mind.

  Kurupt

  Fall, Track, Mind

  Source: www.hiphopcanada.com

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• The rap game will never be at peace. The rap game is built upon competition. There will always be competition and as long as there's competition, there will never be peace. There's a heavy competition in every scene. Everyone wants to be the one.

  Kurupt

  Games, Long, Competition

  Source: www.hiphopcanada.com

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