Russell Simmons Quotes About Rap

Quotes about: Rap

• If you want to say something profound, writing from your heartbeat is different than writing from the loud voices you get from music. If they're rapping from noise, it's about robbing people. It's that simple.

  Russell Simmons

  Rap, Writing, Simple

  Source: www.motherjones.com

• The difference between blues, jazz, rock n' roll and rap is that rap stayed poor. Even the white rappers are poor. It's scarier to look at poor people; it makes everyone uncomfortable. Their pain is something that people would like to see swept under the rug.

  Russell Simmons

  Pain, Rap, Rocks

  "More Questions with Russell Simmons". content.time.com. May 3, 2007.

• It's all about the work. Nothing is going to fall into your lap. If you want to be a lawyer, see yourself as a lawyer, go to the library and start learning the law. If you want to be a rapper, start rapping and get out there. Live your life as if you already are where you want to be.

  Russell Simmons

  Rap, Fall, Law

• There are poor white people who hear rap music and feel it is about them, because it is. That's why you have an Eminem and a Bubba Sparxxx and rappers like that.

  Russell Simmons

  Rap, White, People

  Interview with Nathan Rabin, www.avclub.com. September 26, 2002.

• I think the rap community always tells the truth. And I think that it's important that we listen to their voices so we can have a roadmap, because artists - almost every single artist in hip-hop, they paint a picture of society that's overlooked. The misogyny, the racism, the violence, the homophobia, these are things that we try to avoid instead of dealing with. All of that I see it so often.

  Russell Simmons

  Rap, Thinking, Artist

  Source: www.foxnews.com

• I think that's what made rap such a stable footprint in culture, that it's so honest.

  Russell Simmons

  Rap, Thinking, Culture

  Source: www.wbur.org

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