Rap Quotes - Page 7

• Craft' gets a bad rap. Mediocre art is not caused by craft; it is caused by artists. Good art employs whatever craft works best.

  Walter Darby Bannard

  Art, Mediocrity, Crafts

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• Life is love, heartache and strain,
  Yet the strength to overcome it all keeps me sane.

  O.C.

  Heartache, Hip Hop, Overcoming

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• If Dr. King marched today, would Bill Gates march?
  I know Obama would, but would Hillary take part?

  Jayceon Terrell Taylor

  Kings, Hip Hop, Drs

  Song: Letter To The King

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• They say sleep is the cousin of death, guess we related...
  Cause I'm the most slept on, and the most hated.

  Jayceon Terrell Taylor

  Cousin, Sleep, Hip Hop

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• It's the principle of it, I get a rush when I bust
  Some dope lines oral, that maybe somebody'll quote.
  That's what I consider real in this field of music,
  Instead of puttin' brain cells to work, they abuse it.
  Non-conceptual, non-exceptional,
  Everybody's either crime-related or sexual.
  For those who pose lyrical, but really ain't true, I feel:
  Their time's limited, hard rocks too.

  O.C.

  Real, Dope, Rocks

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• Everything has a price...
  No matter if it's fortune, fame or your life.
  I understood later that it's all about paper,
  Everything has a fee in the land of the free.

  O.C.

  Land, Hip Hop, Paper

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• So why you pushin' it? Why you lyin' for? I know where you live,
  I know your folks, you was a sucka as a kid.
  Your persona's drama that you acquired in high school in actin' class,
  Your whole aura is plexiglass.
  What's-her-face told me you shot this kid last week in the park;
  That's a lie, you was in church with your moms.

  O.C.

  Mom, Drama, Lying

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• I'm Ready to Die without a Reasonable Doubt
  Smoke Chronic and hit it Doggystyle before I go out.
  Until they sign my Death Certificate, All Eyez on Me
  I'm still at it, Illmatic, and that's The Documentary.

  Jayceon Terrell Taylor

  Hip Hop, Doubt, Documentaries

  Song: The Documentary, Album: The Documentary

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• Starstruck with one buck, your girl look like Donald Duck.

  Kool Keith

  Girl, Ducks, Hip Hop

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• Some wish that I was gone, cause they know I'ma win.

  O.C.

  Winning, Hip Hop, Wish

  Song: My World

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• Ya see I'm Irish, but I'm not a leprechaun.
  You wanna fight, then step up and we'll get it on!

  Everlast

  Fighting, Hip Hop, Steps

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• I'd rather be broke and have a whole lot of respect.
  It's the principle of it.

  O.C.

  Hip Hop, Principles, Broke

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• I do not care a rap as to who gets credit for the work, provided the work is done.

  Theodore Roosevelt

  Care, Credit, Done

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• Rap's the occupation, but one day watch I'll be Pimp of the Nation.

  Kid Rock

  Future, Pimp, One Day

  Song: Pimp of the Nation, Album: Grits Sandwiches for Breakfast, 1990

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• When it came to hip-hop... I don't know. Maybe I was insecure. You know, this is the early '90s. If you were a white guy, and you were rapping, that wasn't as accepted yet. I was scared of the quiet Northeast suburbs, so I couldn't embrace my full rapper self.

  Charlie Day

  Insecure, Self, White

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• I like my raps but I'm never too happy with some of 'em because I feel like they could be better. But every time I hear my flow on that song I wow myself.

  Tyler, The Creator

  Song, Ems, Wow

  Source: pitchfork.com

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• Everything that’s out now…rap wise and music wise in general [is whack]. I mean, you know whack when you see it. So I’m on a crusade against whackness, and I hope no whackness comes my way. That’s my move, my mission for this record: to combat whackness on all fronts – to make sure that people know what quality music is. It’s not so much about message, but have something to say.

  Jeru the Damaja

  Wise, Moving, Mean

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• You know, most people called rap stupid when it started, and it was one of the most innovative music forms of its time.

  Dan Deacon

  Stupid, People, Form

  Interview with Chris Martins, music.avclub.com. April 15, 2009.

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• Rap, rap! upon the well-worn stone, How falls the polished hammer! Rap, rap! the measured sound has grown A quick and merry clamor. Now shape the sole! now deftly curl The glassy vamp around it, And bless the while the bright-eyed girl Whose gentle fingers bound it!

  John Greenleaf Whittier

  Girl, Fall, Sound

  John Greenleaf Whittier (2012). “Songs of Labor and Reform From Volume III., the Works of Whittier: Anti-Slavery Poems and Songs of Labor and Reform”, p.32, tredition

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• It seems other rap artists are trying to follow a "tradition", or something... I don't consider us [Migos] as weirdos, we just went the other way and didn't follow the rap tradition. We just killed it and made it our tradition.

  Quavo

  Artist, Trying, Way

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• Аfter all the beats and rhymes, I felt like everybody around me was rapping and so I was like.

  Jeremih

  Beats, Rhyme, Felt

  Source: www.nbcnews.com

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• A trap lord is basically the lord of the trap, and my trap is rap.

  ASAP Ferg

  Lord, Traps

  Source: www.gq.com

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• With rap music, because it's all so on the street, you get treated like a street cat: "All right, you've been eatin' enough, you're fat, get out of the way now and let somebody else come by."

  Nas

  Cat, Way, Enough

  Interview with Ryan Dombal, pitchfork.com. December 6, 2006.

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• I just appreciate what Andre 3000 has done musically - just the bravery. I think Andre 3000 may be one of the bravest artists in rap music.

  Nas

  Artist, Thinking, Appreciate

  Source: pitchfork.com

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• Jay-Z and Kanye West are to authentic rap culture what diseased rates were to 14th century Europeans

  Dean Cavanagh

  Culture, West, Century

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