Best 1010 quotes in «rap quotes» category

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.

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.

(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 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.

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

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 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 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.'

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

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 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 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.

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.

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.