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Only in America could you find a way to make a healthy buck, And still keep your attitude on self-destruct.

Only two to three per cent of an audience is interested in words and pays attention to lyrics; most of the rest of it is about image or the beat or the sound, or else it's a tribal thing - country & western, rap, heavy metal, with historical folk rock off in some kind of cult.

On one side you have book burners, Congressional wives and Pat Robertson. On the other side, you have vulgar comedians, foul-mouthed rap groups and Dennis Hopper—all your choices should be so easy.

On the reals, all these crab niggaz know the deal, When we start the revolution, all they'll probably do is squeal.

On the square...I'm not riffin' like Andy Griffith, Just fed up, goin' head up, with competition.

Our freedom of speech is freedom or death, We got to fight the powers that be!

Part of my affinity with urban music comes from being on 'Kids Incorporated,' 'cos we used to sit around and listen to Chaka Khan and Prince, and I got influenced by all that. Then gangsta rap got started, and I was infatuated with that - maybe that's why I'm fascinated by guns.

People say, 'Grimm, you've been shot like 50. So why don't you just rhyme like 50? Then, you could get the money like 50, Otherwise, before you see success...you'll be 50.'

Peace before everything, God before anything, Love before anything, real before everything, Home before any place, shoot before anything, Style and state radiate, Love Power slay the hate.

People are so confused about race and hip-hop that people didn't even consider the Beastie Boys one of the greatest rap groups of all time because they were white.

(Peace!) Piece of what? You can't mean P-E-A-C-E Cause I've seen people on the streets Shoot the next man and turn around and say 'peace.' But that's leaving people in pieces It's not what the meaning of peace is.

People are very adamant about maintaining a certain sound or a certain era, like, "There were three years of rap that were great, so let's just keep doing that." The genre itself is just stuck in place. It's been treading water for a while.

People were talking while I was playing, so I got up and left the stage. I've gotten to the point where I'm not really very patient with patrons rapping during the show. And the people were all nice and quiet when I cam back.

People who go out and try to be a rebel at night, Try to make up for the fact that they settled in life.

Perm in your hair or even a curly weave, Wichya New Edition Bobby Brown button on your sleeve. I tell you come here, you say, 'Meet me half way,' Cause brothers been popping that game all day.

Please don't bite baby, I got some bomb ass pussy from a white lady... She let me hide my weed in her titties

Picked up the yoga, put down the soda. My healthy mind...that's what's gon' help me over. Life of a stoner (if you still concerned), I never lose, I only win or learn; It's all about your state of mind.

Personally, I don't give a rap for documents; for the truth in my eyes is not in them but in the mind.

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.

Picture yourself crushin' Xzibit with your tough talk? That's like Christopher Reeve doing the crip walk.

Player haters be givin' me harsh looks, But I'm tryin to sell records like Garth Brooks.

Rap comes from the humble beginnings of rebelling against the status quo. Now, rappers have become the status quo themselves. You can't rebel against the Queen and then become the Queen yourself. I attribute much of the blame to testosterone-male dominance and patriarchy.

Props is a true thug's wife.

Pull down the shades on the windows of your soul, And gaze into your mind and watch the wisdom unfold.

Putting styles on lock, and making beats by the bundle, Scooping more props than Bryant Gumbel...and staying humble.

Puttin rhymes into shape just like Jack LaLanne.

Raise your right palm: We do solemnly swear To stack more dough more calmly this year.

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.

Rap is my most used medium but I don't think I approach music like a rapper would.

Rap is poetry to music, like beatniks without beards and bongos.

Rap music is the only vital form of music introduced since punk rock.

Rappers act so wild, and love to profile, Frontin' hard, but ain't got no style.

Rappers are usually rapping about knowledge they think people need to get by in the world. If there's no movement that gives the idea that the knowledge people need is how to take over the system, what they see is that people need to know how to hustle; people need to know how to survive.

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.

Rapping is the only time I'm serious.

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.

Rap is still an art, and no-one's from the Old School Cuz rap is still a brand-new tool

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.

Rap music is just computerised crap. I listen to Top of the Pops and after three songs I feel like killing someone.

Rap music... sounds like somebody feeding a rhyming dictionary to a popcorn popper.

Rap records don't make you feel good no more. Six months after release, it can't come back as a classic

Reality does get a bad rap. But I'm not concerned about it 'cause I know who I am. They can edit it, but you are in charge of what you do.

Reality is nourishment, but people don't believe it, I guess it's hard to stomach the truth like a bulimic.

Rebel, renegade, must stay paid.

Pop songs are not as graceful as they used to be. Performers today haven’t gone through the regimen of learning how to write. And of course, everyone wants to own copyrights. 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.

Put this in your CD-ROM: www dot Canibus dot com. You can find me on the Internet, talkin' to chicks That was sweatin' me off the 'Music Makes Me High' remix. I be talkin' mad trash, tryin to get 'em to laugh. See, if I click and drag long enough I'll get the ass.

Question: Why is that MC's be wack And major labels wanna sign that crap? A-yo...funk that!

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?

Rap actually comes out of punk rock, not black music.

Rap comes from the oral tradition. The oral tradition gives voice to those who would've otherwise been voiceless.