Best 1010 quotes in «rap quotes» category

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.

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.

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.

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?

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

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.

Rap is just to me very annoying.

Rap is not pop, if you call it that then stop...

Rap game Julio Franco, Chuck Norris, Texas Ranger/ Ice on my fingers look like I slap-boxed a penguin.

Rap is just somebody getting something off his chest. That's all it is.

Rap is rock 'n' roll. Rock is when you push the buttons in the system; when you say, I'm not going along with what you're saying. That's rock, whether it's done with guitars, or it's done with just beats.

Rap music came along and saved my life. I started to tell the stories of the streets and that was my way out.

Rap music is really good when you're traumatized.

Rappers spit rhymes that are mostly illegal, MC's spit rhymes to uplift their people.

Rapping about a surgery is something that makes sense for me to do.

Rapping is talking and communicating, and that's always good.

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 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.

Rap is stress, but it pays great.

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.

Rappers hate each other, not the labels that got rich, Don't care about culture, they only want profit. If your album sell slow, bet you'll get dropped quick; Q-Tip warned us: the industry's toxic. For reference, check out BDP's Sex and Violence.

Rappers on their sophomores...actin' like they boss lords. Fame's such a funny thing for sure when niggas start believing all those encores.

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

Raw I'mma give it to ya, with no trivia. Raw like cocaine straight from Bolivia.

Rap is something you do Hip Hop is something you live

Rap music and rap records used to always be like this: we get one or two shots to a piece cause it was a singles marketplace and when the major record companies saw that it could also handle the sales of the albums then they started to force everybody to expand their topics from 1 to about 10 and you gotta deliver 12 songs, so a lot of times if you took a person who wasn't really developed, and the diversity of trying say 12 different things, you know the companies were like "Cool! Say the same thing 12 different ways.

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.

Real dudes move in silence...like a mute drivin a new hybrid.

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

Remember when friends was friends, and LL had a Benz? And cell phones and beepers was the new trends? When Koch was the Mayor and Reagan was the Pres?

Rebel, renegade, must stay paid.

Rhyme to kill, rhyme to murder, rhyme to stomp, Rhyme to ill, rhyme to romp, Rhyme to smack, rhyme to shock, rhyme to roll, Rhyme to destroy anything, toy boy. On the microphone: I'm Poppa Large, big shot on the East Coast.

Rhyme patterns are nothing without meanings to the words. A lot of rappers can do those flows, but the raps aren't really about anything - which is cool sometimes, but to have the flow and the message is one of my favorite things.

Rhymes more fresher than a virgin in a 'frigerator.