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Rapping is the only time I'm serious. -- Earl Sweatshirt
Rapping is talking and communicating, and that's always good. -- Ice Cube
I went to Sirius Satellite Radio and did my show, Rapping With Rip. -- Rip Taylor
Rapping about a surgery is something that makes sense for me to do. -- Lazarus of Bethany
Rapping is a vocal delivery, so you can do it without being part of hip-hop and not knowing what hip-hop is about. -- Ice T
Rapping and singing are not two polar opposites. There's so much middle ground. And I think there's a lot of people who find that middle ground. -- Ezra Koenig
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
If you're really a rapper, you can't stop rapping. -- Ice T
I don't like rap music at all. I don't think it's music. It's just a beat and rapping. -- Nina Simone
When I'm not longer rapping, I want to open up an ice cream parlor and call myself Scoop Dogg. -- Snoop Dogg
I definitely use 'smiling while rapping' as a tool in the booth. I want to have fun while recording. -- Macklemore
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There is no singing anymore, everything is yelling and shouting and rapping and that is real boring to a guy like me. -- Sebastian Bach
I've always been rapping before I was making money off of it. Before I made a profit, I had always been rapping. -- Meek Mill
You become more tolerant when you become older. You're not interested in rapping people over the knuckles; you're interested in understanding them. -- Claire Tomalin
When I was in south Sudan, people used to rap in my village. But the rapping was more in the mother tongue, Nuer. -- Emmanuel Jal
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
What I don't do is try to like become whoever I'm rapping with. The people who go get an LL album want to hear LL. -- LL Cool J
I started rapping because I wanted people to hear what I have to say, I want as many people to hear me as possible, and I do everything in my power to make that pop. -- Talib Kweli
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
There are a lot of people who really abused sampling and gave it a bad name, by just taking people's entire hit songs and rapping over them. It gave publishers license to get a little greedy. -- Beck
Toasting is basically what you call rapping. It came off of playing the beats at the parties, however it be. You find a space in the beat, and you have somebody live just basically saying rhymes over the beat. -- Damian Marley
I don't have to work on it. I'm naturally a writer. The rapping and writing, they can go hand-in-hand - but rapping is an art that you have to practice and master, so I worked at it for a long time. -- Lupe Fiasco
I was the kind of kid who loved singing. I loved rapping; I loved attention. But for me, it was more about chasing the dream of being a superstar because of the town I was from and because of what I'd seen. -- Trey Songz
I've never been the straight rapper that is going to stand in a cipher and battle all day. I started off battle rapping, but to me, making songs became more important than freestyles... I've met many rappers who can freestyle but can't make a record. -- Queen Latifah
I started rapping before anybody had ever bought a car from it. It was truly about the art form and the culture, more so than now, where it's a successful way to make money. Back then you had to be doing it because you liked it. -- Ice T
I'm definitely inspired by Michael Jackson. I watch all his videos all the time. And Busta Rhymes, early Busta Rhymes - I really was inspired by him. He's really the reason why I started rapping. Because all his visuals. I loved his videos when I was younger. -- Tyga
Gibberish rap is - I freestyle all the time, just hangin' out with friends. And sometimes when I'm freestyling, I'll lose my flow, you know, but I'll still wanna - I don't wanna just stop rapping because I lose my flow. So I'll just put in nonsense words till I can bring in regular words again. -- Hannibal Buress
I really want to do the unexpected, and I think that's what I did when I executed 'Long.Live.A$AP.' I wanted people to really see the message and that I'm an artist who not only has the capability of rapping, but of composing great music both for people of my generation and for people with different backgrounds. -- ASAP Rocky
Barriers have been broken: rappers are singing, and singers are rapping. You might catch a rapper on a rock song, a pop artist on a hip-hop song - there are so many different things that are going on today. That is the same way in which we live our lives; we're all over the place. I like to try different things. -- Trey Songz
I was rapping at eight. -- Nick Cannon
I don't want to just be fully rapping my whole life. -- Meek Mill
When I first came back into the booth, I starting rapping. -- Tony Sunshine
I would say I started rapping because my friends were doin it. -- Action Bronson
I would say I started rapping because my friends were doin' it. -- Action Bronson
I'm not completely at ease at rapping, I can't do it well yet. -- Namie Amuro
I've been rapping since I was 18 years old, with a crew called Blades. -- Abbie Cornish
I started rapping when I was about 12 or 13, just playing around with it. -- Young Buck
The most popular rap artists aren't supposed to be rapping about being broke. -- Danny Brown
I'm not rapping, I'm conversing. It's just a conversation between me and you. -- Snoop Dogg
You started rapping when you wasn't good at basketball. I started rapping because I needed Adderall. -- Donald Glover
There was a slight rapping at my bathroom doorAre you alright in there?No. I respondedI'm drowning. -- Khalia Hades
In high school I was making beats for my friends and for myself and rapping over them. -- Mike Shinoda
I'm rapping in English but in an African way. I'm not trying to sound like an American. -- Emmanuel Jal
To be hip-hop is much more than just rapping in the production. It is more in the attitude. -- Questlove
I just don't want to be rapping forever. I love it, but sometimes you got goals for yourself. -- Obie Trice
I used to do design before I was actually rapping. I went to art and design high school. -- ASAP Ferg
When I was 11, I decided to start rapping, playing guitar, and writing songs. Everything really blossomed from there. -- Becky G
Ðfter all the beats and rhymes, I felt like everybody around me was rapping and so I was like. -- Jeremih
I have good pronunciation no matter what language I speak. Maybe it's because my specialties are rapping and imitating others -- G-Dragon
Not even battling but just really known for rapping. Like I had songs up on Soundclick first, take it back. -- Ab-Soul
When you're rapping, you do have to perform to a certain degree, but not every rapper is necessarily a gifted actor. -- Queen Latifah
Writing was something I always did but that turned into singing and rapping. That something that came out of my writing. -- Dreezy
When I came out rapping on my record, a lot of people said, Oh, you just want to be like Puff. -- Jermaine Dupri
So with the freestyles, I just do it for fun. If I hear something that I like, I'm rapping on it. -- Kid Cudi
I always knew that I would be some type of public figure, but I never knew that it would be rapping. -- Freddie Gibbs
I had a record deal with Sony in the beginning of the 90s, and I was rapping and singing in my band. -- Volker Bertelmann
I started making music for fun maybe my senior year in college. I started rapping in high school, but it wasn't anything serious. -- Cakes da killa
I was rapping as a hobby. It was something I did for my friends and just played around on ideas and stuff like that. -- Brandy Norwood
Me rapping over other people's beats doesn't mean as much as when Lil Wayne does it - no matter how hard I'm going in. -- Donnis
I think every rapper should know how to sing, like a little bit. I mean common man it'll make your rapping better straight up. -- SonReal
I just wanna affect the culture and wanna be able to support young people with goals that aren't just limited to rapping and producing. -- Wale
I like producing beats, and I like rapping, too. I have a program for the PC, and I can hook my keyboard to it. -- Jamie Waylett
Boosie is like the Lebron James when it comes to rapping, so you know if he feels it he's going in, and he gives 100 percent. -- B-Real
I love doing the music. I love programming beats and kind of working on the music as much, if not more, than the actual rapping. -- Joaquin Phoenix
It makes me wonder what this rapping shits a hobby for, oh that's right, because I'm gifted in another field, and another field, and another field. -- Donald Glover
I like the whole laid-back rapping. I wish I could rap! I wish I could wrap like Azealia Banks or Lil Wayne or someone like that... -- Charli XCX
You see somebody rapping and you're like, "Nah, my cousin can do that." You're spoiled by the experience. Overseas, it's still something that people can appreciate. -- Talib Kweli
Whatever happened in the neighborhood. That's what I was rapping about. And that sparked people's interest. And that's what kind of put me on that path. -- Ice Cube
I'm not really interested in anybody, that's why I started rapping. I'm still a fan of Tupac. That's the only rapper that I'm still like, "Oh! Tupac!" -- Spencer Pratt
When break dancing was out, I break danced. When rapping was the thing, I freestyled rap on the street and battled and all that kind of stuff. -- Mekhi Phifer
Not to sound egotistic, but I've gotten kind of good at it. It's something that came naturally to me, but my rapping is rooted in my writing. -- Cakes da killa
I always loved rapping ever since Snoop said "1-2-3-4," I was repeating lines, but I didn't start writing my own lyrics until I was twelve. -- Fashawn
It's about finding what's next. I'm hesitant to let people know what producers I'm f---ing with, what I'm rapping about. I'd rather drop that winning hand out of nowhere. -- Drake
The song that's affected me the most profoundly is probably Michael Jackson's 'Thriller,' or, more specifically, the couple seconds of instrumental break before Vincent Price starts 'rapping.' -- Patrick Stump
Myself, I'm just a simple country boy who spent time on the streets and developed a style of writing and rapping and a cool sound that people seem to enjoy. -- Big Smo
Even though Prince wasn't rapping and it was a whole different era, it shows how artists expressed themselves without saying too much, and that was the real beauty of the art. -- Tyga
Before I started rapping and touring I weighed about 160. But by going on the road every night eating fast food, performing every night, partying and drinking I started gaining weight immediately. -- Rakim
That's what my music... I'm working on a solo record right now, it's gonna be more hip-hop than anything, like electronic hip-hop, futuristic hip-hop. I'm probably gonna be rapping on it. -- Alan Vega
I was a good student. By 8th grade, you've basically learned everything. By senior year, we was drinking, we was kickin' it, we was rapping. It wasn't really like business, hard work. -- Dreezy
I don't even think I'm that good at rapping, but I think what makes a great rapper - what CAN make a great rapper - is someone who wants to be better. -- Donald Glover
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
SK La'Flare's a legend. It was me, him and Vince, and Frank would come through sometimes and s - - and he was, like, fully rapping. N - - s was on it. -- Earl Sweatshirt
I love rapping. I do. My styling's similar to Missy Elliott - I think she's so dope. In a weird way, that's how I first learned the American accent: doing American rap songs. -- Rebel Wilson
I have always been writing but when I started rapping I was just playing around. My friends told me I needed a rap name like Breezy or G-Eazy so I went with Dreezy. -- Dreezy
I got into rapping by being a victim of circumstances; it was a hard situation with my brother. Mainly my older brother got hit with a life sentence, so he kind of inspired me. -- Trae tha Truth
Will Smith is a funny person, a very likable person, but at the same time he can be serious and really handle his business. I'll stay away from talking about his rapping abilities, though. -- Colin Kaepernick
While I was rapping I was always involved in youth work - I ran music workshops for teenagers and young offenders all the time and also ran a charity for refugee kids for a time. -- Doc Brown
I was djing before I was rapping. I was calling myself Mike Geronimo and spelling it like Mike but he was just like spell it M-i-c. I was like that's ill cuz it stands out. -- Mic Geronimo
If you want to say something profound, writing from your heartbeat is different than writing from the loud voices you get from music. If they're rapping from noise, it's about robbing people. It's that simple. -- Russell Simmons

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