Rap Quotes - Page 33

• America...Do not touch my TV, my DVD, my stereo, my dual-deck VCR. Do not touch my old school, my new school, my slow jams, my party jams, my happy rap, and you better not touch...My James Brown.

  Bernie Mac

  Party, School, Dvds

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• I don't care if it's rap, metal, whatever. You still should play Beatles records mixed with Limp Bizkit mixed with Foghat mixed with Creedence Clearwater Revival, stuff like that.

  Afrika Bambaataa

  Play, Records, Care

  Interview with Nathan Rabin, www.avclub.com. March 2, 2005.

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• Never mind what haters say, ignore them 'til they fade away.

  T.I.

  Inspirational, Hater, Hip Hop

  Song: Live Your Life

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• I love my city and I feel like the majority of the people that are in the city are people from other cities. So I think that L.A. sometimes might get a bad rap because it's known to be so Hollywood-oriented and then underneath that you have crime. But that's really the case in pretty much any major city that you go to.

  Regina King

  Thinking, Cities, People

  "Ben McKenzie, Regina King and John Wells Visit Southland". Interview with Brian Gallagher, movieweb.com. September 04, 2009.

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• I sat down with my long time business partner and Rap-A-Lot CEO James Prince to review the music that we had and quickly came up with an outstanding track list.

  Bun B

  Opportunity, Long, Track

  "Bun B Set to Release New Album 'The Epilogue' in November" by Edwin Ortiz, www.complex.com. October 5, 2013.

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• When Rick Perry was told about Kim Jong Il, he said, 'I never heard of him, but then again, I don't listen to that rap.'

  Jay Leno

  Kim, Said, Heard

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• I think America has a bad rap right now... and hopefully Obama will change that.

  Joan Cusack

  Thinking, America, Hopefully

  "RT Interview: Joan Cusack on War, Inc., the Unofficial Sequel to Grosse Point Blank". Interview with Jen Yamato, editorial.rottentomatoes.com. May 22, 2008.

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• Rather than trying to put an end to Eminem or some other rapper, politicians should think about why they're rapping. It's easier to try to censor some kid who's swearing about poverty than it is to stop the poverty.

  Willie Nelson

  Kids, Thinking, Trying

  Playboy Interview, November 2002.

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• I think self-destructiveness is given a really bad rap. I think it can also mean self-reflection and poetic sensiblity. It can mean empathy, hedonism, a libertarianism.

  Courtney Love

  Mean, Thinking, Reflection

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• Somehow the rap game remind me of the crack game

  Nas

  Games, Cracks

  Song: Represent, Album: Illmatic, 1994

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• So you think that hip-hop had it's start out in Queensbridge, If you popped that junk up in the Bronx you might not live.

  KRS-One

  Thinking, Hip Hop, Junk

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• I think L.A. gets a bad rap. L.A. is the same as everywhere else.

  Max Greenfield

  Thinking

  "The Max Factor". Interview with Mickey Rapkin, www.elle.com. January 25, 2013.

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• I think that a rap aficionado, the hardcore rap fan, will always go away from pop, in the same way a hardcore jazz fan will never think Kenny G is really a jazz artist. You gotta kind of know there's always going to be that purist who's going to be like if it ain't beats and rhymes, if there ain't a DJ, then that ain't Hip Hop.

  Ice T

  Artist, Thinking, Hip Hop

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• I think that rap is narrative, when it's done right.

  Ajay Naidu

  Thinking, Done, Narrative

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• I loved doing Cee Lo’s Bright Lights in the Big City. That was definitely a favorite of mine, because I love to get all soulful. And a close second would be Flo Rida’s Right Round, because I could rap, which I’ve never really done before.

  Skylar Astin

  Light, Cities, Would Be

  "“Pitch Perfect” Interviews: Anna Camp & Skylar Astin Reminisce About Vomit, Exhausting Production, And Bursting Out In Song". Interview with Michael Lee, www.movieviral.com. October 3, 2012.

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• I would love to collect art at some point, but I think the whole rap/art world thing is getting kind of corny.

  Drake

  Art, Thinking, World

  "Drake: High Times at the YOLO Estate" by Jonah Weiner, www.rollingstone.com. February 13, 2014.

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• Mark my words, my rap career [is] on the rise.

  Nicole Richie

  Careers, Mark

  Twitter post from Feb 23, 2012

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• I mean I'll be retired from rap, so what I'll be doin' in rap will be for fun.

  Tone-Loc

  Fun, Mean, Retired

  "Still Loc'ed After Dark". Interview with Spence D., www.ign.com. June 2, 2000.

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• If, after obtaining Buddhahood, anyone in my land
  gets tossed in jail on a vagrancy rap, may I
  not attain highest perfect enlightenment.

  Gary Snyder

  Land, Jail, Perfect

  Gary Snyder (1978). “Myths & Texts”, p.45, New Directions Publishing

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• I started DJing, breakdancing and MCing in the '70s and I got my record deal in 1979 with 'Christmas Rap.'

  Kurtis Blow

  Christmas, Records, Deals

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• Why shouldn't rap be esoteric, able to take in current events, history and criticism? I guess it's this old idea of containment - that rappers, because they're black, can't and shouldn't aspire to look outside the ghetto for influence.

  Saul Williams

  Ghetto, Ideas, Black

  "A new beginning for the word" by Burhan Wazir, www.theguardian.com. August 5, 2001.

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• When I finish writing a rap verse. It's a lot like sex: You start off slow with ideas, like foreplay, and then you put your all into it. When you end it with the perfect thought, it's like that perfect last stroke.

  Drake

  Sex, Writing, Ideas

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• Business money reattaches worldwide
  Deep inside stops the diamond rocks
  In a million world, billion world, quitrillion world
  Rap moves on to the year three thousand

  Kool Keith

  Moving, Rocks, Years

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• I can hear sweat trickling down your cheek
  Your heartbeat sound like Sasquatch feet
  Thundering, shaking the concrete.

  The Notorious B.I.G.

  Sweat, Feet, Sound

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• You're nobody 'til somebody kills you.

  The Notorious B.I.G.

  Art, Media, Insightful

  Song: You're Nobody, Album: Life After Death

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