Rap Quotes - Page 3

• Pain is joy when it cries, it's my smile in disguise.

  Pusha T

  Pain, Hip Hop, Joy

  Song: Pain, Album: My Name Is My Name, 2013

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• I rap about fighting back. I make it uncomfortable by putting details to it. It might not have been politically correct but I've reached somebody; They relating to me. They relate to the brutal honesty in the rap.

  Tupac Shakur

  Honesty, Fighting, Details

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• I got mouths to feed,
  Unnecessary beef is more cows to breed.

  GZA

  Hip Hop, Beef, Mouths

  Song: 4th Chamber, Album: Liquid Swords

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• Stop tryin to be loud as me, cause you can't do that,
  Think about it...playing Russian roulette with an automatic!

  Fredro Starr

  Thinking, Hip Hop, Roulette

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• I represent where them killers at 145th and Broadway you get your head cracked

  Cam'ron

  Killers, Broadway, Cracked

  Song: Bout it Bout it... Part III

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• I was always taught my do's and don'ts:
  For do's I did, and for don'ts, I said I won't.

  GZA

  Hip Hop, Taught, Said

  Song: I Gotcha Back, Album: Liquid Swords

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• I'm a monster, I'm a maven,
  I know this world is changin'.
  Never gave in, never gave up,
  I'm the only thing I'm afraid of.

  Kanye West

  Inspirational, Hip Hop, Monsters

  Song: It's Amazing, 2008

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• Set me up, wet me up, niggas stuck me up...
  Heard the guns bust, but you tricks never shut me up.

  Tupac Shakur

  Gun, Hip Hop, Tricks

  Song: Against All Odds

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• I met this girl when I was ten years old,
  And what I loved most she had so much soul.
  She was old school, when I was just a shorty
  Never knew throughout my life she would be there for me.

  Common

  Girl, School, Years

  Song: I Used To Love H. E. R, Album: Resurrection, 1994

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• If you stay in one place, you can only rap about one thing because that's all you know.

  Lloyd Banks

  Knows, One Thing, Ifs

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• Consequence is no coincidence.

  Lauryn Hill

  Hip Hop, Coincidence, Consequence

  Song: Lost Ones

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• On 139 and Lenox Ave there's a big park, and if you're soft don't go through it when it gets dark

  Big L

  Dark, Parks, Bigs

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• It's just that when you heard hip-hop, no matter where you were, it was a culture that kind of made you want to try to be part of it. Whether you thought you were an artist, whether you thought you could be a DJ, whether you thought you could breakdance, or whether you thought you could rap. It was the kind of culture that had a lot of open doors.

  Ice T

  Artist, Doors, Hip Hop

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• Rap music... sounds like somebody feeding a rhyming dictionary to a popcorn popper.

  Tom Robbins

  Funny, Sound, Popcorn

  Tom Robbins (2003). “Skinny Legs and All”, p.226, Bantam

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• Put me anywhere on God's green earth, I'll triple my worth.
  Motherf--. I, will, not, lose.

  Jay-Z

  Inspirational, Hip Hop, Earth

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• If you asked me to write a rock song or a rap song, I couldn't do it because they're not in my fingers.

  Tom Lehrer

  Song, Writing, Rocks

  "The Music Show" with Andrew Ford, www.abc.net.au. July 8, 2006.

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• Racism is taught in the home. We agree on that? Well, it's very hard to teach racism to a teenager who's listening to rap music and who idolizes, say, Snoop Dogg. It's hard to say, 'That guy is less than you.' The kid is like, 'I like that guy, he's cool. How is he less than me?

  Jay-Z

  Teenager, Home, Kids

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• Life is short if you don't notice it'll pass you by,
  That's why my head is in the clouds trying to pass the sky.

  Ludacris

  Inspirational, Life Is Short, Clouds

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• Rappers spit rhymes that are mostly illegal,
  MC's spit rhymes to uplift their people.

  KRS-One

  Uplifting, People, Hip Hop

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• Let bygones be bygones...but where I'm from,
  We buy guns and more guns, to give to the young.

  Kendrick Lamar

  Gun, Giving, Hip Hop

  Song: The Heart Pt. 2

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• Every night I pray to God: 'Please, no more wack MC's.'

  J-Ro

  Night, Hip Hop, Praying

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• Never say never - you don't know what's going to happen in the future.

  Nikki Sanderson

  Tomorrow May Never Come, Music And Life, Cuz

  Source: www.mirror.co.uk

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• I ain't no joke, I used to let the mic smoke,
  Now I slam it when I'm done and make sure it's broke.

  Rakim

  Hip Hop, Done, Broke

  Song: I Ain't No Joke

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• Guns turn you boys into pussies, sex change

  Lil Wayne

  Sex, Gun, Boys

  Song: Right Above It

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• I listen to a lot of crazy stuff like pop, techno, rock, hip-hop, rap, baladas, bachata...my iPod is crazy. I like listening to a lot of stuff in different languages, so my music is always out there for me.

  Prince Royce

  Crazy, Rocks, Ipods

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