Rap Quotes - Page 23

• You're always looking for somebody to love you, be accepted, and there's the insecurities that are even transmitted through rap. Everyone is trying to aim to please too much. Number one: They're trying to please whoever signed them to a contract. Number two: They're trying to appease a gigantic audience and they get this false magnification of love. I came from a thing which nowadays would be the exception to the rule. I came from a mother and father who always made me secure in my beliefs, and that's where the love came from. Which made me look at everything else as procedure.

  Chuck D

  Mother, Father, Love You

  "Rapping the Vote With Chuck D". Interview With Jeff Chang, www.motherjones.com. September/October 2004.

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• There is a community in hip-hop. It doesn't seem like that anywhere else, except maybe in punk rock. But punk rock is tricky, because it has become such a pop thing. But in rap, there is still a feeling of community. Who are our peers? Rappers.

  Ad-Rock

  Community, Feelings, Punk

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• I didn't have to sell my soul for money. I didn't have to go through trap music; I could just help Ye write songs and get money from it. So I knew when I put my album out I could just be myself. Not saying I won't do a trap beat or rap over one, but that's just not what makes me. That's not all of CyHi.

  Cyhi the Prynce

  Song, Writing, Soul

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• I'll dance to anything: Bob Marley or rap.

  Francesca Annis

  Inspirational, Dance, Bob

  "Francesca Annis: 'Remember, I didn't choose to be an actress'". Interview with Hermione Eyre, www.independent.co.uk. December 15, 2002.

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• I listen to music for emotion and I get zero emotion from rap.

  Sebastian Bach

  Zero, Emotion, Listening To Music

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• There is no singing anymore, everything is yelling and shouting and rapping and that is real boring to a guy like me.

  Sebastian Bach

  Real, Yelling, Guy

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• House, rap, R&B, disco rock, they are all part of hip-hop culture. Why you ain't playing Kraftwerk along with Jay-Z? That's hip-hop.

  Afrika Bambaataa

  Rocks, House, Hip Hop

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• I think 'Country Girl' is one song that can veer into country or hip-hop or rap. You can listen to it and enjoy the humor and the fun in it.

  Luke Bryan

  Girl, Country, Song

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• I find that with some girls, the words work and education have gotten a bad rap.

  Sandra Bullock

  Girl

  "Sandra Bullock: The Undercover Activist". Interview with Skip Hollandsworth, www.glamour.com. September 30, 2006.

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• I was rapping at eight.

  Nick Cannon

  Eight

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• Rap is always evolving. It's easy for the old school to hate the new school, but it's a music that got a little stifled I think, by the Internet a little bit.

  Ice Cube

  Hate, School, Thinking

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• I don't rap like nobody, I don't try to sound like nobody.

  Mos Def

  Trying, Sound

  "House Music: Mos Def". Interview with Spank Rock, www.interviewmagazine.com. May 29, 2009.

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• I used to be focused on being the dopest rapper in the game, and then once that became what I was, I wanted something different, and I wanted to become the best businessman in the game. I wanted to learn how to master the business like I mastered the rap.

  Snoop Dogg

  Dope, Games, Different

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• There's so much that I want to do. I feel like I'm the Magic Johnson of rap. You know, Magic was great on the basketball court, but he's bigger as a businessman.

  Snoop Dogg

  Inspirational, Basketball, Magic

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Rap is only one end of a whole spectrum of verbal play and virtuosity. Rap is geared for aural pleasure.

  Rita Dove

  Play, Pleasure, Ends

  Interview with Jesse Kornbluth for "The Book Report", www.math.buffalo.edu. April 8, 1997.

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• I would say that I'm more moved by melody, even though I love to rap.

  Drake

  Melody, Moved

  "On the Cover: Drake". Interview with Claire Hoffman, www.gq.com. April 13, 2012.

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• In high school I had a boyfriend who was super into rap, so I was into Too $hort and Wu-Tang for a little while. And my best friend's older brother would sometimes drive us home in this pimped-out truck, and he'd play all his dirty rap music. We thought we were really cool.

  Kirsten Dunst

  Brother, Dirty, Home

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• In rap, as in most popular lyrics, a very low standard is set for rhyme; but this was not always the case with popular music.

  James Fenton

  Lows, Cases, Standards

  "It ain't necessarily so" by James Fenton, www.theguardian.com. October 18, 2002.

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• I was literally told for 'The Show Goes On' that I shouldn't rap too deep. I shouldn't be too lyrical. It just needs to be something easy on the eyes. Like a record company telling Picasso that we don't need these abstract interpretations of life, where people have to sit down and look at it and break it down.

  Lupe Fiasco

  Eye, People, Needs

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• I remember rap music. We used to party and dance off of it. Today it's all about a whole different angle... Rappers are going against each other, and it's more of a bragging, boasting thing.

  Flavor Flav

  Party, Today, Different

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• I don't dislike rappers or hip-hop or people who like it. I went to the Def Jam tour in Manchester in the '80s when rap was inspirational. Public Enemy were awesome. But it's all about status and bling now, and it doesn't say anything to me.

  Noel Gallagher

  People, Hip Hop, Enemy

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• Anything that's of any use, famous people get hold of it and take it for themselves and it gets a bad rap.

  Noel Gallagher

  People, Use

  "Noel Gallagher: Celebrities 'Bastardize' Twitter". Yahoo Interview, www.hollywoodreporter.com. September 28, 2011.

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• I looked at the rap community like street kids wanting their own brand. But now I look at that period with the rappers in the 90s as a trend of the moment. What it taught me was never to follow a trend, because trends move on.

  Tommy Hilfiger

  Moving, Kids, Community

  "The Saturday interview: Tommy Hilfiger". Interview with Hadley Freeman, www.theguardian.com. February 4, 2011.

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• I have a very broad demographic, from the 8-year-old who knows every word to 'Ice Ice Baby' and the college kid who grew up on 'Ninja Rap' to the soccer mom and grandparent.

  Vanilla Ice

  Soccer, Mom, Baby

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• Because hip-hop has no requirements, you deal with people that have the least intelligence on the planet. Some of the people that compare themselves to me, compare themselves to me because they rap and I rap. They can't even read the contracts that they sign to be a rapper, to do the deal.

  Curtis Jackson

  People, Hip Hop, Requirements

  Interview with Jeff Otto, www.ign.com. September 6, 2005.

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