Rap Quotes - Page 11

• I know that in the rap game you've got a lot of people, that come from poverty, was born in poverty and if it wasn't for hiphop they'd still be living in that. So when I think of hiphop, I think hiphop saves lifes, hiphop changes lives.

  Jon Connor

  Life Changing, Thinking, Games

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• I would be very nervous to rap I think if it ever comes to that! I'm going to try to steer clear as long as possible.

  Jacob Artist

  Thinking, Long, Trying

  Source: glee-fan.blogspot.com

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• I'm building my adult beverage empire the way I built my independent rap label. As my career.

  E-40

  Independent, Careers, Adults

  "GO DER Exclusive; the Ambassador of the Bay Himself E 40 #GODER". GO DER Interview, godermag.com. February 29, 2016.

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• I could have easily got T-Pain or anybody like that, but let me just get somebody very left. That'll wake them up. Gaga. She's never done a rap record before. Pay attention. It's a method to my madness.

  Wale

  Pain, Attention, Done

  "Wale Talks Media Hate, Charles Hamilton & Celebrity Women". Interview with Ernest Baker, www.complex.com. June 4, 2009.

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• You never wanna see yourself there. Like, ever. I'd rather go to jail than see myself on Step Your Rap Game up because I take a lot of time with my stuff.

  Wale

  Games, Jail, Stuff

  "Interview with Ernest Baker". Interview with Ernest Baker, www.complex.com. June 4, 2009.

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• I don't think you can be a good musician if you just listen to rap, or just the [type of music] you do. You gotta be open to other ideas.

  Freddie Gibbs

  Thinking, Ideas, Musician

  Source: www.rollingstone.com

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• Everything I do is going to be gangsta rap, street based, street oriented... I'm from Gary, Indiana, and everybody's damn near at the poverty level.

  Freddie Gibbs

  Gangsta, Levels, Indiana

  Source: www.rollingstone.com

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• I don't have to rap in a stadium. As long as I can provide for my family and my art, and live comfortably and live well, then I'm good. And with my talent level and my skill level, I'll get there.

  Freddie Gibbs

  Art, Skills, Long

  Source: www.rollingstone.com

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• Nobody wants to hear me rap.

  Joe Mauer

  Want

  "We Play 'Would You Rather' With Joe Mauer". Interview with Rafi Kohan, www.gq.com. March 21, 2011.

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• I love doing the music. I love programming beats and kind of working on the music as much, if not more, than the actual rapping.

  Joaquin Phoenix

  Kind, Beats, Programming

  Source: dishmag.com

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• Will Young. He's a great white soul singer. But he was slightly disappointing when I met him - not that friendly. Perhaps he was having a bad day. I love Take That, they're terrific. Gary Barlow is so talented. I've always hated punk rock and I'm not mad about rapping, but then it's not really for my age group.

  Tony Blackburn

  Bad Day, White, Rocks

  The MIRROR Interview, www.mirror.co.uk. November 25, 2007.

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• Sippin' on that brown stuff
  Got you feeling like you found love,
  Or maybe it was just luck.
  But honestly...it's probably none of the above.

  Slug

  Hip Hop, Feelings, Luck

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• Maybe I need somebody that could save me
  From the parts of myself that keep making me crazy.

  Slug

  Crazy, Hip Hop, Needs

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• Time is money, every moment is costly,
  So I ration emotion, 'cause existence exhausts me.

  Slug

  Hip Hop, Causes, Emotion

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• I didn't get turned on, I just got turned.
  I wasn't as aroused as I was concerned.

  Slug

  Hip Hop, Concerned

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• In my mind, New York was the place where they had the underground rap shows and I could get in on some ciphers and just rap. This whole fantasy world I had created in my head about New York just from listening to the music my whole life, like, I'ma go up there and do that. But when I came up here, there was none of that, that scene was dead.

  J. Cole

  New York, Listening, Mind

  "J. Cole Talks Roc Nation, Meeting Jay-Z & 'The Warm Up' Mixtape". Interview with Damien Scott, www.complex.com. May 2, 2009.

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• The music becomes more pure and soulful when it's true, and it has to be true these days with the way the internet works, and the way the game works, everyone wants authentic raps.

  J. Cole

  Games, Want, Way

  "J. Cole Talks Roc Nation, Meeting Jay-Z & 'The Warm Up' Mixtape". Interview with Damien Scott, www.complex.com. May 2, 2009.

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• The rapping is cool, but my lines aren't all that fly. People like Biggie Smalls or Jay-Z who say stuff that you have to rewind and listen to twice and be like, "Wow, what made them say that?" or "I would have never thought about saying that" - those are rappers I really look up to. As far as flows, I can give you flows all day.

  Missy Elliot

  People, Giving, Biggie

  "New Again: Missy Elliott". Interview with Michael Musto, www.interviewmagazine.com. July 30, 2014.

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• It makes me wonder what this rapping shits a hobby for, oh that's right, because I'm gifted in another field, and another field, and another field.

  Donald Glover

  Hobbies, Fields, Wonder

  Song: Fuck It All, Album: Culdesac, 2010

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• I can see myself retiring from rapping, but I don't think from music. After that, I think I'd just go into some other kind of music, 'cuz I'm a worldwide fan of music, all types of music, all cultures, so I'll always be involved.

  Redman

  Thinking, Fans, Culture

  Interview with Nathan Rabin, www.avclub.com. April 10, 2007.

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• Something that distinguishes my solo work from normal rap production is that it has a lot of melody - it's not just cutting up a song and having someone rap over it.

  Girl Talk

  Song, Cutting, Normal

  Source: pitchfork.com

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• I used to rap as a kid and people were impressed by it, so it gave me the drive to keep going. Everybody has at least one talent. I guess this is my talent.

  Danny Brown

  Kids, People, Talent

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• 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

  White, People, Poor

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

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• You can't write a book if you've never read a book. And if you've read five books and you try to write a book, your book will mainly encompass the themes and the context of the five books you've read. Now, the more books you read, the more you can bring to a book when you decide to write one. So the more rap I learned, the more I was able to bring to rap when I decided to rap. But this was all subconscious.

  Bun B

  Book, Writing, Trying

  Interview with Jon Caramanica, believermag.com. June 1, 2006.

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• Well, the first thing I do is I try to listen to whatever rapping is already on the track. I listen for cadence and melody to see how the track's already been written, and to make sure that whatever flow or flows I decide to run with, or patterns or melodies that I decide to put into the song, that they're not already in there. Then I try to see if there's a different part of the subject matter that I can talk about.

  Bun B

  Running, Song, Track

  Interview with Jon Caramanica, believermag.com. June 1, 2006.

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