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Sometimes I feel like rap music is almost the key to stopping racism. -- Eminem
Rap music is the only vital form of music introduced since punk rock. -- Kurt Cobain
I don't like rap music at all. I don't think it's music. It's just a beat and rapping. -- Nina Simone
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
But with rap music - not just N.W.A. - but rap music in general, seeing these artists wearing these team logos all the time started bringing a synergy and energy about having to rep your city, your team, everywhere and all the time. -- Ice Cube
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
Not that I want to put the entire rap music style down - I just don't like it. And I know somewhere there's gotta be another guy like that. There's gotta be a guy just like that - just like me. There's gotta be somebody, somewhere... Maybe, maybe an assassin type. -- Sam Kinison
I really love rap music. I grew up in the '80s and '90s with Public Enemy, N.W.A., LL Cool J - I'm a hip-hop encyclopedia. But I got kind of frustrated with the chauvinistic side of rap music, the one that makes it hard to write songs about love and relationships. -- Mayer Hawthorne
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
I originally wanted to embrace the imagery and forthrightness of rap music. There are some interesting, dynamic voices in rap. But I find most of it irresponsible in its overt violence and commercialization of anger. As artists, we believe we can will action through language. If that's the case, we have to take responsibility for what we say. -- Yusef Komunyakaa
I grew up in the Bronx. I'm into rap music. -- Abel Ferrara
By the late '80s, I was already giving up on rap music. -- Chuck Eddy
You never want to look like an old fart doing young rap music. -- DJ Quik
Rap music is just computerised crap. I listen to Top of the Pops and after three songs I feel like killing someone. -- George Harrison
I think rap music has made more money on dance music than dance music has made on dance music. Just a thought. -- Kaskade
It just happens to be that people like to associate poetry and rap music. I think that idea is kind of corny. -- Earl Sweatshirt
I'm really a singer, so I love songs and I love singing. I like rap music, but I didn't grow up freestyling. -- Billy Idol
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
I have tried... believe me, I have tried to like rap music. It makes me feel so very, very old. I have tried to get home with the downies. -- Dylan Moran
I'm 100 percent original, and that's what got me here. My rap music is more understandable, slower. It tells a story. You can write a book on each of my thoughts. -- Tupac Shakur
I hate rap music, which to me sounds like a bunch of angry men shouting, possibly because the person who was supposed to provide them with a melody never showed up. -- Dave Barry
There are poor white people who hear rap music and feel it is about them, because it is. That's why you have an Eminem and a Bubba Sparxxx and rappers like that. -- Russell Simmons
I like rap music. But bragging about being rich to poor people is really offensive. I want to hear a rap song about buying a Cy Twombly painting or dating a museum curator. I want to hear about that kind of rich. -- John Waters
One of the great things about rap music... it leaves a lot to be desired, as far as I'm concerned, musically, but I do recognize the very important place that it has in music and in creating role models for younger kids to emulate, giving them the dream that they can make it out of whatever situation they're in. -- Graham Nash
I love Lady Gaga and I love Katy Perry and R&B and rap music... I love big, American pop music. -- Florence Welch
I never really thought I was going to be a singer, honestly. I never listened to singers; I always listened to rap music. -- Fetty Wap
What I'm trying to do is put back into rap music what's missing - which is the good part, the fun part, that party part. -- Flavor Flav
I made the decision that I was going to make rap music in, like, fourth grade, so it's been something I was saying for a long time. -- Chance The Rapper
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
I think most music provides the same messages - whether it be 'I'm unhappy' or 'I love a girl.' I just liked the package of rap music. -- Iggy Azalea
Growing up listening to rap music, you almost feel like you should have haters. That's an important part of being a successful musician. It's a good thing, I guess. -- Ezra Koenig
I think rap music is brought up, gangster rap in particular, as well as video games, every other thing they try to hang the ills of society on as a scapegoat. -- Ice Cube
I think it's a mistake where rap music is these days. It doesn't seem to be able to look out of the ghetto and that's ultimately unfortunate, because it defines our limitations. -- Saul Williams
I remember rap music. We used to party and dance off of it. Today it's all about a whole different angle... Rappers are going against each other, and it's more of a bragging, boasting thing. -- Flavor Flav
Violence is a part of America. I don't want to single out rap music. Let's be honest. America's the most violent country in the history of the world, that's just the way it is. We're all affected by it. -- Spike Lee
Speaking out against rap music is useless, and it's futile. The reality is there's criticism for everything, but Jay-Z is one of the most remarkable artists of our time of any genre, and as a hip-hop artist he carries the weight of that art form with such splendor and grace and genius. -- Michael Eric Dyson
In high school I had a boyfriend who was super into rap, so I was into Too $hort and Wu-Tang for a little while. And my best friend's older brother would sometimes drive us home in this pimped-out truck, and he'd play all his dirty rap music. We thought we were really cool. -- Kirsten Dunst
When you've been raised in care, rap music isn't just about guns and sexism. They're talking about real things you can hang on to, problems of identity that you have sympathy with. It's not just about the music, with rap: when I was in care, it meant a whole lot more than that. -- Samantha Morton
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
I think rap music is rap music. I mean, are there heavy writing aspects of it? Absolutely. In a sense, is it poetry? Yeah. I've heard that so much, growing up in a house with poetry. But I think people like to use that as a shortcut for who's good and who's not. It's like the word 'lyrical' - 'lyrical' is the worst word in the entire world. -- Earl Sweatshirt
I love rap music. -- Chumlee
No, I can't do rap music! -- Dolly Parton
I don't even really like rap music. -- Angel Haze
The U.S government hates rap music -- Chris Rock
Rap music is really good when you're traumatized. -- Kim Gordon
I've never been into alternative, hipster rap music. -- Harmony Korine
Ego is my career. Rap music is all ego. -- Earl Sweatshirt
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Nothing has more words and performance than rap music. -- Chuck D
I'm not crazy about the rap thing. Or house music. -- Wolfman Jack
Rap actually comes out of punk rock, not black music. -- Stanley Crouch
This is the industry that wants [music], the rap industry. -- Young Thug
A lot of the music, and especially rap, I don't understand. -- Patti Page
Rap is poetry to music, like beatniks without beards and bongos. -- David Lee Roth
My brother's been producing rap music and hip-hop for maybe 10 years. -- Tina Yothers
My girlfriend is rap. Music and albums and records and my kids. -- Mystikal
Rap music... sounds like somebody feeding a rhyming dictionary to a popcorn popper. -- Tom Robbins
I listen to music for emotion and I get zero emotion from rap. -- Sebastian Bach
Rap is poetry set to music. But to me it's like a jackhammer. -- Bette Midler
Rap has been a path between cultures in the best tradition of popular music. -- Jay-Z
I am obsessed with rap music - it's such a big part of my life. -- Randall Park
We loved that form of music. We're all huge rap fans, so we just incorporated it. -- Charlie Benante
My music is pretty honest. I can't rap on science fiction. Punk is from the street. -- Rick James
What I'm trying to do is break the genre from what is rap and what is music. -- Wyclef Jean
Rap is my most used medium but I don't think I approach music like a rapper would. -- Hoodie Allen
Rap music's been around for too long now to be inspirational. The words are, but the music isn't. -- Alexander McQueen
I didn't get into music until the early 90s when I heard rap music for the first time. -- Gonjasufi
The government recognized immediately that Rap music has enormous revolutionary potential and politicians immediately came together to end it. -- Assata Shakur
To me, rap music is bigger than who's the coolest rapper, the biggest rapper. It's everything about your personality. -- Diplo
It is a coincidence that Mathangi is the Goddess of Music and the spoken word, which can be rap. -- M.I.A.
I love pop music just as much as I like rap music, or ill-ass hip-hop music, or rock music. -- Donnis
I have a very varied taste in music. Everything from rap to classical to Latino to Rat Pack to jazz. -- Jasper Fforde
Not everyone agrees on music. Some people like rap, some like country - it's all an opinion. F the critics. -- Vanilla Ice
Either I'm listening to rap music, getting hyped up to go out and do something, or I'm listening to church music. -- Hailey Rhode Baldwin
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
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
There's nothing wrong with a woman being proud of an element of her life that's talked about in rap music all the time! -- Demi Lovato
I got into music via the competitions; the first time I ever performed was in a kind of rap battle, competing for money. -- Doc Brown
If you really think back to the culture or just black America before rap music took off, New York could have been Paris. -- Ice Cube
With rap music, there are billions and billions of samples that are uncleared that people have never been bothered about on an underground level. -- Girl Talk
There has been an effect of business rap on the output of today's rap music. But I don't think that's the modern day rapper's fault. -- M.I.A.
When people say to me 'what do you think of rap music?' my answer is there's no such thing. There's rap and there's music. -- Irwin Thomas
Run DMC brought us out of that underground-only feel. They brought rap above ground and made it respectable as an art form to mainstream music. -- Ice Cube
In rap, as in most popular lyrics, a very low standard is set for rhyme; but this was not always the case with popular music. -- James Fenton
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
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
I think music talks to you on an emotional level, regardless of where you're from. I guess I related to the tempo of rap, the aggressiveness. -- Iggy Azalea
I actually grew up break-dancing. When you break-dance you listen to hip-hop and rap, so I've been listening to that music since I was a kid. -- Matthew Morrison
When people say to me, 'What do you think of rap music?', my answer is, 'There's no such thing. There's rap, and there's music.' -- Jack Jones
I listened to a lot of old school, golden era music. It gave me a lot of insight on how to rap and give my all. -- Big K.R.I.T.
I often thought that if there had been a good rap group around in those days, I might have chosen a career in music instead of politics. -- Richard M. Nixon
I'm actually a huge fan of hip-hop. I like hip-hop music. I love rap. I like cabaret music, as well. I just love live music and bands. -- Britney Spears
I fell in love with music at 13-years-old. I wanted to be a singer at first and a drummer. Then I fell in love with rap music. -- Juicy J
I try to keep the music fresh in my head. And I don't always listen to rap; I listen to a little bit of everything: R&B, rock. -- Chamillionaire
I like to get in my own world. When I'm getting ready for a meet, I always have headphones on, listening to rap music to get myself fired up -- Michael Phelps
They had all this talent, and they had no instruments. So they started rap music. They rhymed on their own. They made their own sounds and their own movements. -- Max Roach
While I am not a musician, I love music. I have over 15,000 songs on my iPod. Everything from hard core rap to the soundtrack from the original 'Cinderella.' -- Lee Daniels
Music can kind of make you one-dimensional. People see what's on the surface and what you rap about, and they make their decision on who you are from there. -- Chance The Rapper
I've always been a fan of music. I would say I'm a fan of late '90s to early 2000s rap. That's where I get all my inspiration from. -- Tyga
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Let the voice be the voice of the voiceless and let it come from the world of rap music to keep the stereotype and the peace at the same time. -- Chuck D
The whole world has changed much since the '80's. In the united States, rap music and country music dominate radio and that certainly wasn't the case in the early '80's. -- Sheena Easton
I have considered rap music stars, and there is one in my new book, Lovers and Players, and there is also a hip-hop music mogul who I think you will like a lot. -- Jackie Collins
A lot of people heard about gin and juice for the first time from Snoop Dogg, but it was nothing new in rap music, and it was nothing new in the black community. -- Boots Riley
One out of three black men are in the criminal justice system in some form. Their despair is beginning to resonate through the entire culture; that is why suburban children want rap music. -- Robert Bly
I think rap music is the sole reason for a lot of black acceptance in pop culture; because the music is very popular, it gets our image out in other ways than in movies. -- Ice Cube
It must surprise people that I'm such a rap fan, but it's true. Sometimes, just staying in, putting on some rap music, and letting loose is all I need to have a good time. -- Phoebe Tonkin
In rap music, even though the element of poetry is very strong, so is the element of the drum, the implication of the dance. Without the beat, its commercial value would certainly be more tenuous. -- Archie Shepp

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