Rap Quotes - Page 24

• Back in the day, if someone said that hip hop and rap was a fad, that was a joke to me because they just didn't know what they were talking about. In reality, there were so many people who didn't know what they were talking about it.

  Jam Master Jay

  Reality, Talking, People

  "Run-DMC star, 37, was hip-hop pioneer", www.cnn.com. October 31, 2002.

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• When I rap, I get to express myself in a way where putting words together is like poetry, and sometimes it's better to talk in certain expressions than sing, you know? So I love, I love to rhyme when I want to express certain things.

  Wyclef Jean

  Expression, Together, Want

  "Citizen Schools Students Interview Wyclef Jean". The BoomBox interview, theboombox.com. December 16, 2010.

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• I'm fascinated by rap and by hip-hop. I think there's a lot of poetry in it. There's a lot of anger, a lot of social energy in it. And I think you'd better listen to it pretty carefully, 'cause it's important.

  John F. Kerry

  Anger, Thinking, Hip Hop

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• I'm a singer and a writer first. I started to rap by accident, being playful.

  Kesha

  Singers, Firsts, Accidents

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

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• Rap in general has never been my steez, but I like it.

  Kesha

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

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• My kids are the most inspiring thing that pushes me. It used to be because they were born, and I had to take care of them. Now it's because my son raps, and he's better than me. So now I gotta keep up with him, you know what I'm saying?

  Talib Kweli

  Kids, Son, Care

  "Talib Kweli On Mainstream Hip-Hop And Honoring The Old School". "All Things Considered" with Robert Siegel, www.npr.org. April 24, 2013.

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• I've never been the straight rapper that is going to stand in a cipher and battle all day. I started off battle rapping, but to me, making songs became more important than freestyles... I've met many rappers who can freestyle but can't make a record.

  Queen Latifah

  Song, Battle, Important

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• I always felt that rap didn't cause crime; it just reflected it.

  John Legend

  Causes, Crime, Felt

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• Government workers often get a bad rap, but it's rare for them to receive much appreciation when government works.

  Matthew Lesko

  Appreciation, Government, Workers

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• I'm not blowing my own trumpet here, but I made a rap song 20 years ago with Afrika Bambaataa.

  John Lydon

  Song, Years, Trumpets

  "Johnny Rotten Praises Battling Bands, Trashes Internet Liars". Interview With Liot Van Buskirk, www.wired.com. September 3, 2007.

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• Rap music's been around for too long now to be inspirational. The words are, but the music isn't.

  Alexander McQueen

  Long, Rap Music

  "Meeting the Queen was like falling in love". Interview with Joyce McQueen, www.theguardian.com. April 20, 2004.

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• I can rap in a London accent, make weird faces, wear spandex, wigs, and black lipstick. I can be more creative than the average male rapper.

  Nicki Minaj

  Average, Creative, Black

  "Nicki Minaj Talks About Being an Openly Bisexual Rapper, Being a Role Model to Young Girls and More…". Gossip On This Interview, gossiponthis.com. April 19, 2010.

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• I look at rap as an opportunity to act. My head is full of different characters - in each song I'm auditioning a character.

  Nicki Minaj

  Song, Character, Opportunity

  "Exlusive: Nicki Minaj Interview W/ Details.com". Interview with Jonah Weiner, thebeatdfw.com.

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• It's a joke to think that anyone is one thing. We're all such complex creatures. But if I'm going to be a poster child for anything, anger's a gorgeous emotion. It gets a bad rap, but it can make great changes happen.

  Alanis Morissette

  Children, Thinking, Emotion

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• I was rapping as a hobby. It was something I did for my friends and just played around on ideas and stuff like that.

  Brandy Norwood

  Ideas, Hobbies, Stuff

  "Brandy thanks Timberland for endorsing her new rap career" by Shaheem Reid, www.mtv.com. December 9, 2009.

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• When Elton John sang a duet with the white rapper Eminem on a Grammy telecast, rap went mainstream. Massive parental headaches followed.

  Bill O'Reilly

  White, Duets, Headache

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• I stand up for other people, I'm very protective of people around me. If I feel like somebody is getting a bad rap or being unfairly picked on, I will stand up for them, absolutely.

  Christina Ricci

  People, Feels, Protective

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• That's why I called my record Devil Without a Cause - I'm a white boy who's so sick of hearing that white kids are going to steal rap.

  Kid Rock

  Kids, Boys, White

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• My take on rap is driven by straightforward American southern rock and blues.

  Kid Rock

  Rocks, Southern, Driven

  FaceBook post by Kid Rock from Aug 05, 2013

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• I like to make music, I like rap music. Even if I'm white, I support that music. If I want to support it or any other white kid wants to support it more power to them.

  Kid Rock

  Kids, White, Support

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• They believed you can't mix rock, country, and rap, and that crossover is dead. I always knew it would work. And it will always work as long as you're really into it and like what you're doing.

  Kid Rock

  Country, Rocks, Long

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• I really want to do the unexpected, and I think that's what I did when I executed 'Long.Live.A$AP.' I wanted people to really see the message and that I'm an artist who not only has the capability of rapping, but of composing great music both for people of my generation and for people with different backgrounds.

  ASAP Rocky

  Artist, Thinking, Long

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• I understand what rappers are talking about. I think rap is less about educating people about the black community and more about making money.

  Dennis Rodman

  Basketball, Thinking, Talking

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• As far as rap goes, I grew up in Hollis, Queens, so early influences were people like Run DMC and LL Cool J.

  Ja Rule

  Running, Queens, People

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

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• I've been fascinated by Machiavelli since I was very young. I've always felt that he had a bad rap from history, and that he was actually a person quite unlike what we now think of as Machiavellian. He was a republican. He disliked totalitarian government.

  Salman Rushdie

  Thinking, Government, Republican

  "Salman Rushdie Spins a Yarn". Interview with James Mustich, www.barnesandnoble.com. June 2, 2008.

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