Best 1010 quotes in «rap quotes» category

When the slugs penetrate, you feel a burning sensation, Gettin closer to God in a tight situation.

When you do rap albums, you got to train yourself. You got to constantly be in character.

When you look at a guy like a Jay-Z or look at a guy like a Nas, you don't necessarily qualify them as conscious rap purely, although they are extremely conscious of the social inequities that prevail.

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.

When you say you love me, it doesn't matter. It goes into my head as just chit-chatter. You may think it's egotistical or just worry-free, But what you say, I take none of it seriously.

Why is the world round? Why do the suckas bite? Why do the freaks come out at night? Why they paint Jesus white? I sit and wonder why we breakin hip-hop laws, Doing videos in houses that we know ain't yours.

While also, importantly, not wanting to dumb it down or pretend the days of 'difficult' poetry are over, because we live in a pluralist culture and there's room for 'difficult' poetry alongside rap and everything else. And poetry won't be for everyone, but everyone should have the choice.

Why did one straw break the camel's back? Here's the secret: The million other straws underneath it.

Why is the sky blue? Why is water wet? Why did Judas rat to the Romans while Jesus slept?

Will Arnett and I were never in the same room, but once I saw early animation we started writing music for that and then he just kind of did his little rap over top, some of it was free form and some of it I made up, we all just kind of contributed to it.

Will I die slain like my King by a terrorist? Will my woman be Coretta, take my name and cherish it? Or will she Jackie O., drop the Kennedy, remarry it?

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.

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.

Why do I need I.D. to get I.D.? If I had I.D. I wouldn't need I.D.

Why give you the cure when the disease makes money?

Why's my name the Large Professor? Cause I milked your cow, in other words I hit your heifer.

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.

Will I, succeed, paranoid from the weed and hocus pocus, try to focus but I can't see.

Without the piano, I would never have attempted to rap, because I'm a poor rapper. I'm enthusiastic, but it takes me a long time to write eight bars of rap. I would battle any pianist, and yet I would forfeit happily before even getting into a rap battle with anyone.

Working hard may help you maintain, To learn to overcome the heartaches and pain.

With the black male as a teenager, where you're coming from the ghettos and that kind of stuff, you've got to assert yourself, be macho, not let anybody walk over you, so that's where all this unnecessary bullshit comes from - from egos. That's why there are a lot of fights. That's how come the whole thing with rap has been violent. It's because of the male ego.

Y'all niggas ain't ILL...you're ILLogical.

Y'all mythological niggas is comical, The astronomical is comin' thru like tha flu bombin' you... And embalmin' in your crew, too. With the musical, mystical, magical, you know how I do.

Y'all really think Ms. Shakur, or Ms. Wallace, Or Ms. Mizell from out in Hollis Wouldn't exchange the love and fame Attached to their loved ones' names Just to have 'em still alive in their arms?

You can hear the seven sins Blowin' through the ghetto wind.

Yo, it's 1 universal law but 2 sides to every story, 3 strikes and you be in for life, mandatory. 4 MC's murdered in the last 4 years, I ain't tryin to be the 5th one, the Millennium is here. Yo, it's 6 million ways to die, from the 7 deadly thrills, 8-year olds gettin' found with 9 mill's. It's 10 P.M., where your seeds at? What's the deal?

You ask me, "Did I like Arsenio?" About as much as the Bicentennial.

You can do all them push-ups to pump up your chest, I got a 12 gauge Mossberg to pump up your chest, Have you gasping for air after that shell hit your vest. Fear me like you fear God, 'cause I bring death.

Yeah, I cut class...I got a D. Cause History meant nothing to me Except a definite nap. That's why I always sat in the back.

Yo Premier, why these rappers so soft? They corny ass raps be makin me doze off.

You ain't as hard as you act. When I GPS 'pussy,' I end up at your welcome mat.

You download it for free, we get charged back for it. I know you're saying, "They won't know, they won't miss it, Besides, I ain't a thief, they won't pay me a visit." So, if I come to your job, take your corn on the cob, And take a couple kernels off it, that would be alright with you?

You could either ignore this advice, or take it from me: Be too nice, and people take you for a dummy.

You don't get another chance, life is no Nintendo game.

You can't take the heat, get ya ass out the kitchen Matter fact, take ya ass back in there and wash the dishes.

You don't want your kids to hear songs of this nature... But you take em to the movies to watch Schwarzenegger!

You got a man? That's somethin we will talk about. He's smart enough to have ya, but dumb enough to let ya out.

You gotta school these young macks comin' up today... I mean to be 'frank', they just hot dogs, The girls are relish, and they need to catchup on they pimpin'.

You gotta understand: I'm a man with needs that needs fulfilling. And if you ain't with it, somebody else is willing.

You gotta get back to your essence, Use your gifts and share your presence, Don't count your dollars 'til you count your blessings.

You got to have style, and learn to be original.

You know that one auntie, you don't wanna be rude, ...But every holiday, nobody eatin' her food.

You know the evil that men do, hell is where the men go. We snatched him by his hands and feet and threw him out the window: "Up, up, and away cause I don't play, clown, Buck, buck, buck, take that with you on the way down." I'm hoping you got springs and wings on your shoes, But you lose, because I got the Ill Street Blues.

You have to expect the raps when you have achieved popularity as a writer

You know that I can make hits. You know I can do all these rap records. So, I'm going to start opening up and letting you know my struggles.

You know the wisdom is reflected in the knowledge when it's manifested; If not fed in due time, the mind is anorexic.

You need a bad operation. Gimme the scissors, hammer, flame.

You might win some, but you just lost one.

You need to sweat yourself. Don't sweat nobody else.

You never know: rain, sleet, hail, snow, See you gotta accept that's how things go. Prepare for the rainy day, or the sun's glow, But there's clouds movin' in and the clouds gonna blow.