Rap Quotes - Page 12

• A lot of people have that story that they used to sell crack or shoot people; that's nothing new. But honestly, if that was me, I probably still wouldn't be doing that because it's so many people that's doing that. It just gets old when you hear a million raps about how many ways I could shoot you. So I just try to be more creative and come with something new because I actually care about the music.

  Chamillionaire

  People, Creative, Trying

  Interview with Tom Breihan, pitchfork.com. November 27, 2005.

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• Not everyone agrees on music. Some people like rap, some like country - it's all an opinion. F the critics.

  Vanilla Ice

  Country, People, Opinion

  Source: www.washingtonpost.com

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• "Ice" came in when my friends would say "cold as ice" -- if you could rap and battle people you'd say "Dude, that was ice cold." It had nothing to do with jewelry. Back then, it was like "Your cold, dawg." "Vanilla Ice -- that's cold."

  Vanilla Ice

  Ice, People, Battle

  "Catching Up With... Vanilla Ice". Q&A, www.washingtonpost.com. February 17, 2006.

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• One of the great things about rap music... it leaves a lot to be desired, as far as I'm concerned, musically, but I do recognize the very important place that it has in music and in creating role models for younger kids to emulate, giving them the dream that they can make it out of whatever situation they're in.

  Graham Nash

  Dream, Kids, Creating

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• I'm not really interested in anybody, that's why I started rapping. I'm still a fan of Tupac. That's the only rapper that I'm still like, "Oh! Tupac!"

  Spencer Pratt

  Rapper, Fans, Stills

  Source: www.complex.com

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• People are very adamant about maintaining a certain sound or a certain era, like, "There were three years of rap that were great, so let's just keep doing that." The genre itself is just stuck in place. It's been treading water for a while.

  Aesop Rock

  Years, People, Water

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• 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

  Thinking, Artist, Voice

  Source: www.foxnews.com

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• There's no rap against comics that isn't true. They were sexist, they were racist, you name it - and they kind of gloried in that.

  Jules Feiffer

  Names, Racist, Kind

  "At 85, Jules Feiffer Finally Gives Us a Graphic Novel". Interview With Michael Mechanic, www.motherjones.com. July/August 2014.

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• It's all economic. Soda is easier to sell than orange juice because its costs less. Water, some coloring, some fizz, and this can, and we can sell this to you over and over and over again. And that's what rap is.

  Malik Yusef

  Orange Juice, Water, Cost

  Source: www.motherjones.com

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• I actually don't like hip hop much; the music is too clichéd, the subculture, especially the macho strutting of gangsta rappers, isn't my thing. But, at the same time, rap is a simple, direct and strong musical language.

  Shahin Najafi

  Strong, Simple, Gangsta

  Source: www.spiegel.de

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• The motivation to me is to make money and not be dependent upon the shallow pool called the entertainment world or the rap world or the hip-hop world.

  Killer Mike

  Motivation, Hip Hop, World

  Interview with Eric Ducker, believermag.com. July 2014.

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• Most rappers are black men. If you're a black man, you owe something to the community that you came from. If you're rapping about the community that you came from, and you're romanticizing parts of it for the entertainment of people who don't look like you, you certainly owe something to the community.

  Killer Mike

  Men, People, Community

  Interview with Eric Ducker, believermag.com. July 1, 2014.

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• With freestyling it's not about "Say something funny!" That has nothing to do with it. It's about becoming quicker on your feet and knowing that your entire day can go into your rap if you're on it.

  Doseone

  Feet, Knowing, Becoming

  Source: www.believermag.com

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• I grew up in the suburbs and was raised on rap radio, so it took me a long time to stumble upon the acoustic guitar as a resource for anything.

  Cass McCombs

  Guitar, Long, Radio

  "Cass McCombs: Cagey singer-songwriter coughs up a few words". Interview with Delfin Vigil, www.sfgate.com. November 22, 2007.

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• At a recent education summit, President Obama admitted that he can't rap. When they heard, Americans said, 'Good!'

  Jimmy Fallon

  President, Said, Heard

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• Gangsta rap was a ploy to convince black people to kill each other. Gangsta rap didnt exist.

  Alicia Keys

  Gangsta, People, Black

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• Any rap record from 1989 to 1999, besides [ones on] Death Row, we did promotions for it. We had our hand in everything.

  Steve Rifkind

  Hands, Records, Promotion

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• I like producing beats, and I like rapping, too. I have a program for the PC, and I can hook my keyboard to it.

  Jamie Waylett

  Hook, Keyboards, Program

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• Rap - so many words, so little said.

  Keith Richards

  Littles, Said

  "Keith Richards: Rap Is for 'Tone-Deaf People'" by Jon Blistein, www.rollingstone.com. September 3, 2015.

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• I didn't want to do an electro-class album or complex rap album. I wanted to do something that was kind of like a political statement, but also club jams. I wanted it to be dancy, but intelligent at the same time.

  Le1f

  Intelligent, Class, Political

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• Having had been not so well traveled as a kid, as most teenagers aren't, I always thought, "Okay I'm going to focus my energy on rap and the rap game, because that's how I'm going to be able to pay rent and pay off my school loans." But seeing the reaction with this whole gay rap situation has made me not want to play into it at all anymore and just make whatever.

  Le1f

  Teenager, Kids, School

  "Le1f’s Riot Movement". Interview with Shayne Oliver, www.interviewmagazine.com. November 9, 2015.

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• I have no interest in emo. I'm all about rap metal.

  Rivers Cuomo

  Emo, Interest, Metals

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• I think what's exciting about doing it as found footage - if we all are being honest, found footage gets a little bit of a bad rap sometimes, but I think that there's a lot of potential in the medium in taking it seriously and in treating the audience with respect and in treating the characters with respect in terms of, why is the camera really on? Where would the camera be when it is on?

  Dean Israelite

  Character, Thinking, Cameras

  Source: collider.com

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• As long as there's a demand for gangsta rap, it will be supplied.

  T.I.

  Gangsta, Long, Demand

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• The rap game has to save itself. Everybody's saving it. People like Lil Wayne is saving it. He's bringing energy to it.

  Andre Benjamin

  Games, People, Energy

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