Rap Quotes - Page 16

• That's one of my struggles as a hip-hop artist. If I feel like doing a super conscious song where I don't even rap.

  SonReal

  Song, Struggle, Artist

  Source: www.hiphopcanada.com

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• I'm to trying to say I'm something I'm not. Black people understand that. I'm just doing my raps, my way. Rap is black. I recognize that and respect that. I'm just a white guy trying to rap, and I got lucky.

  Vanilla Ice

  White, People, Guy

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• I think it's cool to do stuff in a different language. Basically, I learned English through listening to rap. A lot of people think it's funny. But it's true; I used to try to get the accents.

  Wyclef Jean

  Thinking, People, Listening

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• I didn't think of rap with that type of south feel and that look and the hay and all that.

  Kool Keith

  Thinking, Hay, Looks

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• I thought of rap I thought of Grand Master Flash and I thought of about what they went through.

  Kool Keith

  Masters, Flash

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• I always thought I'd look corny in the type of rap video in the club with girls and all that type of stuff. I just didn't think I could really pull that off. We always think it's more fun and better just to go outside the box and to use our videos to show cool concepts.

  Mac Miller

  Girl, Fun, Thinking

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• I grew up listening to all kinds of music, everything from country to rock, pop, R&B and even rap, so for me, music is music and a great song is a great song.

  Jason Aldean

  Country, Song, Rocks

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• I hate rap! Can I say that?

  Chris Kaman

  Hate, I Hate

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• You could be Top 5 on iTunes, but for people to buy an album, they've got to have a connection with an artist. Every time I bought someone's album, it was about the connection. I was loving everything, from their raps to their style. I wanted to meet them.

  Meek Mill

  Artist, People, Style

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• I used to do more melodic stuff, and I used to do more actual rap - like traditional hip hop vocals. I think my method of storytelling has led me to this point, at which I want to pare down my style. I think I give the lyrics more thought, and then when I try to perform the lyrics over the track I'll try it over and over again, and eventually the lyrics will sink into the track by the way I project them.

  Galcher Lustwerk

  Thinking, Track, Giving

  Source: thequietus.com

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• We've always said we're a HEAVY METAL band. We've kinda branched out here and there - we've done a rap thing, we've done a rap-rock thing, we've done something with Angelo Belmonte, who's the primary composer of Twin Peaks. In fact, most of David Lynch's movies is Angelo. He did something with us and that was great. We've also acted, we've done an episode in Married with Children, which was awesome - so we're always looking to do things which you wouldn't expect.

  Charlie Benante

  Children, Rocks, Band

  Source: brightestyoungthings.com

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• In the long-run I think we lost some of our audience because of noise. I don't think people were ready for it, OK? And after we did it nothing really happened, but then 4-5 years later when there was a rap-rock emergence, we were already over it. We could have made Bring the Noise part 2, Bring the Noise part 3 - but like I said we're a METAL band, we didn't want to do that.

  Charlie Benante

  Running, Thinking, Years

  Source: brightestyoungthings.com

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• We loved that form of music. We're all huge rap fans, so we just incorporated it.

  Charlie Benante

  Fans, Form, Huge

  Interview With Jeff Jetton, brightestyoungthings.com. December 27, 2010.

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• I look at my career and I feel I have the potential to maybe mature into a Samuel Jackson-type older cat, and people will still respect me and say 'Yo, Ice-T was wild', into my old age. And why not? I don't necessarily think I'll be rapping in 10 years.

  Ice T

  Cat, Thinking, Careers

  Source: thequietus.com

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• I wanted the next family to hurt, because you made my family hurt. Them emotions were still running in me... Whether I'm a rap star or not, if I still feel like that, then I'm part of the problem rather than the solution.

  Kendrick Lamar

  Running, Hurt, Stars

  "Kendrick Lamar: 'I Can't Change The World Until I Change Myself First'". Interview with David Greene, wuwm.com. December 29, 2015.

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• There has been an effect of business rap on the output of today's rap music. But I don't think that's the modern day rapper's fault.

  M.I.A.

  Thinking, Today, Faults

  Source: thequietus.com

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• Speaking of people I had to exclude: Hank Williams. which is to say, songs are part of lyric poetry in my book, my thinking. In fact they are the urgent element of poetry in our time, they carry the most emotion for the most people in our culture. everyone LOVES poetry, because we all love (one form or another) of rock and roll (be it folk to emo to rap). It's all rock and roll and all lyric poetry.

  Gregory Orr

  Song, Emo, Book

  Source: therumpus.net

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• The hip-hop that I really connected with was Public Enemy, KRS-One, Ice Cube, and N.W.A. That late '80s and early '90s era. The beginning of gangster rap and the beginning of politically conscious rap. I had a very immature, adolescent feeling of, "Wow, I can really connect with these people through the stories they're telling in this music."

  Jess Row

  Ice, People, Hip Hop

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• Legions of young hip-hop fans are as against this as hip-hop's most fierce critics. There is a huge underground movement within hip-hop circles that against these representation. You can hear this message on tons of lyrics and rap songs produced by independent emcees. But they are fighting against a well-oiled and well-financed machine.

  Bakari Kitwana

  Song, Independent, Fighting

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• The power of the voice in rap is about the expression of truth, rather than the expression of some kind of artifice.

  Eliza Griswold

  Expression, Voice, Kind

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• I hadn't really thought about the kind of music I wanted to make. I was just making raps and stuff. I thought that was the coolest thing in the world.

  Charli XCX

  World, Stuff, Kind

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• I like the whole laid-back rapping. I wish I could rap! I wish I could wrap like Azealia Banks or Lil Wayne or someone like that.

  Charli XCX

  Wish, Laid Back, Wayne

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• If I like hardcore straight-edge punk music, gentle psychedelic folk music, gangster rap, indie-rock with a lot of guitar pedals, and I find inspiration from all these things in different songs of mine, shouldn't I be allowed to make any of this kind of music that I want? And it's the same for the comic books, why should I only make autobiographical stories? Or only political stories? Or only superhero stories? Or only comedy stories? I am a bit creatively desperate, when I sit with a pen and paper I am desperate for ANY idea that makes me excited, I don't care what kind of idea it is!

  Jeffrey Lewis

  Song, Inspiration, Book

  Source: therumpus.net

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• I don't try to rap about or emulate the life of another person.

  Lazarus of Bethany

  Trying, Persons, Emulate

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• Rapping about a surgery is something that makes sense for me to do.

  Lazarus of Bethany

  Surgery, Make Sense

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