Rap Quotes - Page 8

• I just knew what I wanted to be since the third grade. And I always did well in school, I was the type to get good grades, I never really got below Cs or nothing like that. I always kept it A-B. But there's no school for rap.

  Big Sean

  School, Type, Third Grade

  Source: www.gq.com

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• The Rolling Stones are truly the greatest rock and roll band in the world and always will be. The last too. Everything that came after them, metal, rap, punk, new wave, pop-rock, you name it... you can trace it all back to the Rolling Stones. They were the first and the last and no one's ever done it better.

  Bob Dylan

  Rocks, Rock And Roll, Names

  Interview with Bill Flanagan, www.telegraph.co.uk. April 13, 2009.

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• The thing with me is, I'm from a rap background so I'm not really a traditional singer in that sense.

  Negash Ali

  Singers, Backgrounds, Traditional

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• When I make the music that I make, when it comes to reggae music, I engulf the whole spirit of it all. It's just like when I do rap music or whatever style of music I do, I have to engulf the character I do and bring that to life.

  Snoop Dogg

  Character, Style, Spirit

  "Q&A: Snoop Dogg and Diplo on Jamaican Inspiration, Bob Marley's Legacy". Interview with Jeff Rosenthal, www.rollingstone.com. July 31, 2012.

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• Everyone who raps isn't hip-hop. To be hip-hop, you've got to know the culture. You got to know the history.

  Ice T

  Hip Hop, Culture, Hips

  "Ice-T focuses on rap craft in 'The Art of Hip-Hop'". Interview With Jonathan Landrum Jr., www.sandiegouniontribune.com. June 15, 2012.

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• The appeal of the spectrally macabre is generally narrow because it demands from the reader a certain degree of imagination and a capacity for detachment from every-day life. Relatively few are free enough from the spell of the daily routine to respond to rappings from outside, and tales of ordinary feelings and events, or of common sentimental distortions of such feelings and events, will always take first place in the taste of the majority; rightly, perhaps, since of course these ordinary matters make up the greater part of human experience.

  H. P. Lovecraft

  Imagination, Feelings, Majority

  H.P. Lovecraft, Digital Papyrus (2016). “H.P. Lovecraft: The Ultimate Collection (160 Works Including Early Writings, Fiction, Collaborations, Poetry, Essays & Bonus Audiobook Links)”, p.1681, eBookIt.com

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• Men who cannot believe in the mystery of our Saviour's redemption can believe that spirits from the dead have visited them in a stranger's parlour, because they see a table shake and do not know how it is shaken; because they hear a rapping on a board, and cannot see the instrument that raps it; because they are touched in the dark, and do not know the hand that touches them.

  Anthony Trollope

  Believe, Dark, Men

  Anthony Trollope (1995). “The New Zealander”

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• In the case of a man and a woman [accused of commiting a crime together], both will often agree to the man taking the rap despite the man being more likely to receive a longer sentence and more likely to be raped in prison. If blacks were agreeing to do that for whites, the black community would be smart enough to call that 'learned subservience.'

  Warren Farrell

  Smart, Men, Community

  "The Myth of Male Power". Book by Warren Farrell, 1993.

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• We've got the slowest 311 song ever, called 'Solar Flare,' which is a scathing political rap that [vocalist] S.A. [Martinez] puts over a really slow, heavy thing, And then there's also a really fast one called 'It's Getting OK Now,' which is [guitarist] Tim Mahoney channeling Dimebag Darrell [Abbott of Pantera].

  Nick Hexum

  Song, Political, Heavy Things

  "311's Don't Tread Walks In Footsteps Of Van Halen, Pantera" by Corey Moss, www.mtv.com. August 16, 2005.

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• We Gonna Win' is a song of triumph, It represents my personal belief that with hard work, talent and dedication, everything is possible. It's a one of a kind marriage between rap and classical music, where the music doesn't accompany the vocalist, but rather stands on its own.

  Miri Ben-Ari

  Song, Hard Work, Winning

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• A congressman is a pig. The only way to get his snout from the trough is to rap it sharply with a stick.

  Henry Adams

  Pigs, Way, Sticks

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• Some people are saying Bill O'Reilly exaggerated his war experience in the 1980s. People became suspicious because O'Reilly said he was injured in the East Coast/West Coast rap wars.

  Conan O'Brien

  War, People, East

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• I love music.. everything from R&B to Rap to Modern Country.. I still haven't figured out my own personal vibe.. it was sort of Nora Jones then sort of electronic.. then country.. it is very hard to make it in the music industry so we shall see if I ever find the time to finish it!

  Amy Weber

  Country, Music Love, Modern

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• The biggest rap on me is that I don't find a Watergate every couple of years. Well, Watergate was unique. It's not something Carl Bernstein, I, or the Washington Post caused.

  Bob Woodward

  Couple, Unique, Years

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• My game is like a cross between karaoke and rap: crap.

  Nick Faldo

  Golf, Games, Karaoke

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• The biggest thing that will define my legacy is how I've done it, and what I've done, and who I am. I'm a weird big guy. Doing rapping, doing movies. Do a lot of stuff. But always do things the right way. Went to the police academy to become a police officer. Get his master's in criminal justice, stayed out of trouble. Played for three different teams. Changed three different franchises around. This is a guy who they would have secret meetings about to change the rules. So, that's going to be my legacy: the most dominant player ever.

  Shaquille O'Neal

  Basketball, Team, Player

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• I always knew that I would be some type of public figure, but I never knew that it would be rapping.

  Freddie Gibbs

  Would Be, Figures, Type

  "Freddie Gibbs Talks Major Label Saga, "Str8 Killa," Rapping DJs & Rick Ross". Interview with Toshitaka Kondo, www.complex.com. July 30, 2010.

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• By the time I got kicked out of school, I had nothing else to do but rap.

  Cyhi the Prynce

  School

  Source: www.complex.com

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• People in college, if you're getting recognized for getting good grades, you're finally famous. If you get recognized for playing the drums, if you're being recognized for making good ass beats, good ass raps, good ass interviews like this one, you're finally famous.

  Big Sean

  College, People, Ass

  "Big Sean Talks Def Jam Debut, Detroit Roots, and Working With Kanye & Pharrell". Interview with Modele "Modi" Oyewole, www.complex.com. April 17, 2010.

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• Me being biracial, me being from Canada but having success in the States, I have all these moments in my life where I'm jumping roof to roof. Black to white. Singing and rapping.

  Drake

  Jumping, White, Black

  "Drake: I Remain Calm (2010 Cover Story)". Interview with Damien Scott, www.complex.com. February, 2010.

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• There's two elements to rap: having the thoughts, and then being a great rapper.

  Drake

  Rapper, Two, Elements

  "Drake: I Remain Calm (Cover Story)". Complex Interview, www.complex.com. January 25, 2010.

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• I think you gotta always do things that keep you excited in an [rap music] industry that's so bullshit. When you know that you have so much energy and so much to give, it would be a shame if the facilitators of that aren't enthusiastic about you doing it, because you've been doing it for so long. So you just gotta figure out ways in this insane business to keep it fresh.

  Nas

  Thinking, Long, Giving

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• There is a gambling element to being somebody who is going to take on the job of constantly trying to represent and prop up people who might be somewhat shady. That notion is probably part of how they got the rap. But, I have to find the balance of being colorful, being at times despicable, and also being somebody who does believe in something.

  Greg Kinnear

  Jobs, Believe, Gambling

  "Greg Kinnear Talks RAKE, His Approach to the Edgy Role, Similarity to the Australian Series, and More". Interview, collider.com. January 23, 2014.

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• Rap isn't poetry, not least because it involves music and often other elements that aren't words. But the way poets in English use things like rhyme and meter, and the ways these conventions both do and don't apply to rap we try to lay out the rules for rap, in order to understand the techniques that artists like Jay-Z and Kanye employ.

  Andrew Hoberek

  Artist, Order, Trying

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• I was 14 years old when I started rapping and I was terrible. I fell in love with it though and when that happens with me I become super passionate and go all the way with it.

  G-Eazy

  Years, Passionate, Way

  "G-Eazy Interview: From the Bay to the Universe Tour Comes to SLC". Interview with Ellie Briggs, www.hercampus.com. November 13, 2014.

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