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Rap music is the only vital form of music introduced since punk rock. -- Kurt Cobain
Rap was my drug. -- Eminem
Rap helps me connect emotionally. -- Ben Horowitz
Rap-so many words, so little said. -- Keith Richards
Rap is just to me very annoying. -- James Hetfield
Rap is stress, but it pays great. -- Drake
Rap music is really good when you're traumatized. -- Kim Gordon
Rap will never be the same as before -- Eminem
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Ego is my career. Rap music is all ego. -- Earl Sweatshirt
Rap actually comes out of punk rock, not black music. -- Stanley Crouch
Rap is not pop. If you call it that, then stop. -- Q-Tip
Rap is something you do Hip Hop is something you live -- KRS-One
Rap is a gimmick, but I'm for the hip-hop, the culture. -- Method Man
Rap is just a movement within the larger culture of hip-hop. -- Cornel West
Rap is poetry to music, like beatniks without beards and bongos. -- David Lee Roth
Rap is rhythm and poetry. Hip-hop is storytelling and poetry as well. -- Ajay Naidu
Rap in general has never been my steez, but I like it. -- Kesha
Rap music... sounds like somebody feeding a rhyming dictionary to a popcorn popper. -- Tom Robbins
Rap and dance is pretty much what I want to be known for. -- James Corden
Rap is poetry set to music. But to me it's like a jackhammer. -- Bette Midler
Rap's the occupation, but one day watch I'll be Pimp of the Nation. -- Kid Rock
Sometimes I feel like rap music is almost the key to stopping racism. -- Eminem
Rap is just somebody getting something off his chest. That's all it is. -- Ice Cube
It's bad poetry executed by people that can't sing. That's my definition of Rap. -- Peter Steele
Rap has been a path between cultures in the best tradition of popular music. -- Jay-Z
Rap is my most used medium but I don't think I approach music like a rapper would. -- Hoodie Allen
Well I'm a sire, I set the microphone on fire, Rap styles vary, and carry like Mariah -- Inspectah Deck
Rap is really just too conventional. Everybody does the same thing. No one ever pushes the box. -- Tyler, The Creator
Rap is from the streets and I'm from the streets. That's why a lot of people accept me. -- Vanilla Ice
Rap is still an art, and no-one's from the Old School Cuz rap is still a brand-new tool -- KRS-One
Rap music's been around for too long now to be inspirational. The words are, but the music isn't. -- Alexander McQueen
Rap game Julio Franco, Chuck Norris, Texas Ranger/ Ice on my fingers look like I slap-boxed a penguin. -- Riff Raff
Rap comes from the oral tradition. The oral tradition gives voice to those who would've otherwise been voiceless. -- Benjamin Zephaniah
The government recognized immediately that Rap music has enormous revolutionary potential and politicians immediately came together to end it. -- Assata Shakur
Rap records don't make you feel good no more. Six months after release, it can't come back as a classic -- Wyclef Jean
Rap is only one end of a whole spectrum of verbal play and virtuosity. Rap is geared for aural pleasure. -- Rita Dove
Rap's conscious response to the poverty and oppression of U.S. blacks is like some hideous parody of sixties black pride. -- David Foster Wallace
We culture. Rap is the new rock 'n roll. We the rockstars. It's been like that for a minute, Hedi Slimane! -- Kanye West
Everybody in the '80s, well, we hate rap. Now, the biggest rapper in the world... Eminem. Rap's a black thing. -- Chubby Checker
I started DJing, breakdancing and MCing in the '70s and I got my record deal in 1979 with 'Christmas Rap.' -- Kurtis Blow
Rap is supposed to motivate, humours, address societal issues & personal feelings, and also liberate me through art, not insult our women. -- Unarine Ramaru
Rap music is just computerised crap. I listen to Top of the Pops and after three songs I feel like killing someone. -- George Harrison
Rap music is amazing, it's beautiful. But the problem is the lyrics. The person who writes the lyrics - that's the problem. -- Emmanuel Jal
I don't think I would change really anything about rap. Rap don't have no limits to it, and I like it like that. -- Meek Mill
Rap music came along and saved my life. I started to tell the stories of the streets and that was my way out. -- Ice T
Rap is the only interesting music left - it's the only genre that's still pushing itself, and experimenting in a way that I find exciting. -- Harmony Korine
Rap actually took root in the Negro community, and then in the Hispanic community, long before it impacted on the larger American community as a whole. -- Archie Shepp
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
As far as Rap goes Tupac was my favorite, I used to sing some of his songs in my set before I ever met his dad. -- Michael Tolcher
Jazz isn't as profitable for labels like Hip hop or Rap. Jazz needs subsidies to continue, just like European classical works of Bach and Beethoven are subsidized. -- Jimmy Heath
Rap culture is interesting and different and has purpose but it has a non-romantic view of life and of social feelings. There may be a void in that. -- Hal David
I'm always gonna rap. Rapping's what I started doing, I even sang when I first started rapping, when I couldn't really sing at all but I always tried. -- SonReal
Rap is the new rock 'n' roll. We the real rock stars, and I'm the biggest of all of them. I'm the No. 1 rock star on the planet. -- Kanye West
Lyrical lecture, word architecture, Rap director, the best in my sector. Microphone cool chief, releasin the smooth speech... I get nasty with a pen and some loose leaf. -- Lord Finesse
Rap is like a set-up...a lot of games, A lot of suckers with colorful names. 'I'm so-and-so,' 'I'm this, I'm that.' But they all just wick-wick-wack. -- KRS-One
Being a student of hip-hop in general, you take technical aspects from places. You may take a rhyme pattern or flow from Big Daddy Kane or Kool G Rap. -- Eminem
You never wanna see yourself there. Like, ever. I'd rather go to jail than see myself on Step Your Rap Game up because I take a lot of time with my stuff. -- Wale
Rap is always evolving. It's easy for the old school to hate the new school, but it's a music that got a little stifled I think, by the Internet a little bit. -- Ice Cube
When I hear music that parents hate, or older musicians hate, I know that's the new music. When I hear older people saying, 'I hate Rap or Techno' I rush to it. -- George Clinton
I have a very broad demographic, from the 8-year-old who knows every word to 'Ice Ice Baby' and the college kid who grew up on 'Ninja Rap' to the soccer mom and grandparent. -- Vanilla Ice
Rap is purging itself from the things it didn't need and it's allowing the younger dudes to come up. With that being said you're always going to need people from that golden era. -- Mic Geronimo
Rap to me is a modern blues. But until we really confront the truth, we are going to have a Tupac or Eminem or Biggie Smalls to remind us about it - and thank God. -- Stevie Wonder
My main influence is Kool G Rap and Cam'ron, pretty much. If you were to mix those two people up, I wish that would be me... This is my voice. I sound like nobody; I sound like me. -- Action Bronson
I got into hip hop from my uncle; he was always playing us Kool G Rap and Big Daddy Kane. He was a bad boy, and my mum was not really happy that I was hanging out with him. -- Estelle
Consequence is no coincidence. -- Lauryn Hill
You might win some, but you just lost one. -- Lauryn Hill
I chop 'em into salad and my name ain't Caesar. -- Black Thought
Know what you did last summer, so I started hookin' -- Method Man
Unless we share with each other we gotta start makin' changes -- Tupac Shakur
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What good is a beautiful dame with a Rolls-Royce frame, and a Volkswagen brain? -- J-Ro
I'm taking one for the team, Like Martin Luther King, taking one for a dream -- Method Man
I don't even listen to rap. My apartment is too nice to listen to rap in. -- Kanye West
I had a cigarette for breakfast, just for beginners, Cried for my lunch, and sleep for dinner. -- G. Dep
You know it's funny, when it rains it pours they got money for wars, but can't feed the poor. -- Tupac Shakur
Everything is everything What is meant to be, will be After winter, must come spring Change, it comes eventually -- Lauryn Hill
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
Love or hate me, I stay hate free They say we learn from mistakes, well, that's why they mistake me -- Lil Wayne
Thanks for comin out, God bless you, good night... What of fame? Everyone knows your face, the world screams your name And never again, are you alone.. -- Tupac Shakur
My earliest memories of rap music was mixed with my earliest memories of reggae music. They were big sounds around the way, heavy bass lines, strong messages, definitely. -- Nas
He was not hip-hop's most gifted emcee. Still, Shakur may be the most influential and compelling rapper of them all, he was more than the sum of his artistic parts. -- Michael Eric Dyson
Take 7 emcees put em in a line And add 7 more brothers who think they can rhyme It'll take 7 more before I go for mine And that's 21 emcees ate up at the same time. -- Rakim
They say a midget standing on a giant's shoulders can see much further than the giant. So I got the whole rap world on my shoulders, they trying to see further than I am. -- Jay-Z
When you're a little kid, you don't see color, and the fact that my friends were black never crossed my mind. It never became an issue until I was a teenager and started trying to rap. -- Eminem
Personally, I just think rap music is the best thing out there, period. If you look at my deck in my car radio, you're always going to find a hip-hop tape; that's all I buy, that's all I live, that's all I listen to, that's all I love. -- Eminem
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
You don't really gotta rap no more; you can just say the verse with a swag now. -- Fetty Wap
If you're broke, you don't want to rap about being broke; you gonna rap about hustling and getting that bread. -- Juicy J
This is just rap. I'm not trying to make people think I'm some sort of scientific wizard or inspirational poet. -- Action Bronson
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I started rapping since, like, 14. But I've been obsessed with rap from when I was 11. I heard 'Baby Don't Cry,' I'll never forget. -- Iggy Azalea
I just consider myself an artist. I don't really rap. I don't really sing. I just do what I feel is good, and people like it. -- Fetty Wap
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
My whole thing is to inspire, to better people, to better myself forever in this thing that we call rap, this thing that we call hip hop. -- Kendrick Lamar
You know, there are artists who are 35 and up that still make rap and that still works for them. I don't know if I want to be that guy. -- Drake
They say you can rap about anything except for Jesus, that means guns, sex, lies, video tapes, but if I talk about God my record won't get played Huh? -- Kanye West
I don't only like rap music. There's everything from R&B to crazy gangster rap, hip hop... everything! But it all blends together nicely. It's like a magical music rainbow. -- Kreayshawn
Rap is supposed to be about keeping it real and not relinquishing your roots in the community. Without that, it's just posturing. Somebody who claims to speak for the 'hood don't need no private jet. -- Chuck D
There's been people who've rapped and produced - like Kanye - but I don't feel like on the rapping side there's ever been a producer who can rap as good as I think I can rap. -- J. Cole
You can still make music that people love, but there won't be more innovation. I started listening to electronic music a long time ago. But mostly I listen to rap. I think rap is the most interesting. -- Harmony Korine
Times were changing. Clothes were changing. Morals were changing. We went from romantic loves songs like I used to do to rock 'n roll. Now that has changed to rap. So, there's always a new generation with new music. -- Bobby Vinton
When I'm writing, I'm thinking about how the songs are going to play live. Fifty bars of rap don't translate onstage. No matter how potent the music, you lose the crowd. They want a hook; they want to sing your stuff back to you. -- Drake
Since the 1960s, mainstream media has searched out and co-opted the most authentic things it could find in youth culture, whether that was psychedelic culture, anti-war culture, blue jeans culture. Eventually heavy metal culture, rap culture, electronica - they'll look for it and then market it back to kids at the mall. -- Douglas Rushkoff
I think there's a lot of, unfortunately, unfunny ventriloquists out there, so they've got a bad rap. It came after Edgar Bergen because everybody had a little cheeky boy dummy like Charlie McCarthy, and everybody decided to become a ventriloquist because Bergen had popularized it. He brought it back from the doldrums of vaudeville. -- Jeff Dunham
I follow politics in a big way, and always have since I was a kid. I've got opinions, but they're opinions on both sides - not just anti-Republican, which is a real popular thing for a rap artist to do. If you dis Republicans, nobody will get mad. I think the two-party system sucks. It's absolutely ignorant. -- Sir Mix-a-Lot
I always felt really alone because no one wanted to talk about the things that I enjoyed, and that was really rap music and hip-hop as a culture. You know, having the shoes, using the words, buying the magazines, seeing the videos. And I had nobody to share it with, so I feel like I lived a lot online. -- Iggy Azalea
When Ke$ha tries to rap like L'Trimm, she sounds like any ordinary lonely teenage girl stuck in a nowhere town, singing along to her radio and dreaming of a party where she's the star. Ke$ha's greatness is that in her voice, you can hear both the loser girl and the star. All hail the Queen of Noi$e! -- Rob Sheffield
The writing process, the way I go about it is I do whatever the beat feels like, whatever the beat is telling me to do. Usually when the beat comes on, I think of a hook or the subject I want to rap about almost instantly. Within four, eight bars of it playing I'm just like, 'Oh, OK. This is what I wanna do'. -- Eminem
Sonnymoon and Quadrants are a couple of bands that really inspire me in terms of the melodics of things and certain tones and just what feels good. It takes me back to the type of music that I grew up on in my household. We played a lot of gangsta rap, but we also played a lot of oldies, and I think that mix is part of what inspires my sound. -- Kendrick Lamar
I love rap music. -- Chumlee
I gotta learn to rap. -- Scott Disick
I'm not really into rap. -- Magnus Carlsen
No, I can't do rap music! -- Dolly Parton
Single guys get a bad rap. -- David Spade
'Gangsta rap' is a derogatory label. -- Coolio
Nobody wants to hear me rap. -- Joe Mauer
I'm rap's vigilante. I'm out for justice. -- Action Bronson
Gucci Mane is trap rap's Frank Sinatra. -- Harmony Korine
I hate rap! Can I say that? -- Chris Kaman

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