Best 1010 quotes in «rap quotes» category

I found college awkward: another teacher, same old chalkboard. I felt I was shifting backward, when I expected to shoot forward.

If rhyme is a crime, my mic is my co-defendant.

If skills sold truth be told I'd probably be lyrically Talib Kweli Truthfully I want to rhyme like Common Sense (But I did five Mil) I ain't been rhyming like Common since.

If there's a heaven, I can't find the stairway

If you ain't using all the talents God provided you with For the betterment of Man, understand, You ain't nothing but a waste.

If you asked me to write a rock song or a rap song, I couldn't do it because they're not in my fingers.

If you really think back to the culture or just black America before rap music took off, New York could have been Paris.

If you love someone, you should say it often, You never know when they'll be layin' in a coffin. Wake up, it's important that you know that No one on Earth is promised tomorrow.

If you're really a rapper, you can't stop rapping.

If you're crying under fire, then you wasn't built for war. If a pimp took your girl, then your girl was never yours.

I get physical, mystical, very artistical... Giving party people something funky to listen to.

I get a craving like I fiend for nicotine. But I don't need a cigarette, know what I mean?

I get high like the clouds Gather every rapper up Bring em to the roof And watch em' fly for the Styles

I get imaginative with a mouth full of adjectives, A brain full of adverbs, and a box full of laxatives, Shittin' on rappers, causin' hospital accidents.

I get more respect from rap artists than I do from my own industry. I don't always write the kind of music that country executives want. Rappers are like that too .. my words come from the street, and their words come from the street. That slicked-up pop stuff doesn't come from the street, it's all pre-fab.

Ignorance is a poison and knowledge will nourish.

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.

I get atomic, hypo-galactical... Word to mom, I'm in my own world. Galaxy rays? Powerful.

I gave birth to most of them MC's... So when it comes around to the month of May, Send me your royalty check for Mother's Day.

I get attention like a Lexus, girls wanna sex this Play rappers like Tetris...eat em like breakfast.

I got a funny feeling like something was real wrong... Looked at her shoes and her feets was real long! Then it hit me, Oh please God no, Don't let this ho turn out to be a John Doe... He pulled a fast one on me, yo!

I got a letter from the government the other day I opened and read it...it said they were suckers.

I got Lamborghini dreams Nissan nightmares Moving white my ice cool as the night air.

I got lots of love for my crew, that is; No love for them other crews and rival kids. All them out-of-town niggas know what time it is, And if they don't? They need to buy a watch, word up.

I got beef with commercial-ass niggas with gold teeth Lampin' in a Lexus eatin' beef.

I gotta make a move, I gotta do this now, If they don't know your dreams, they can't shoot 'em down.

I got tired of the Ramones around the time I quit and I really got into rap. I thought it was the new punk rock. LL Cool J was my biggest idol.

I got 304's in 310 on Section 8, with multiple 187's... Sport a Marilyn Manson t-shirt when I die and go to heaven.

I got a voodoo doll every time I pen a verse: Not only do they say they feel it, but they say it hurts.

I go to Queens for queens to get the crew from Brooklyn, Make money in Manhattan and never been tooken. Go Uptown and the Bronx to boogie down, Get strong on the Island, recoup, and lay around.

I got to keep it tight like seams, Cause ain't no fiends Comin' in between me and my dreams, See what I mean, black?

I got you open like supermarkets!

I guess every superhero need his theme music.

I grew up listening to all kinds of music, everything from country to rock, pop, R&B and even rap, so for me, music is music and a great song is a great song.

I had a cigarette for breakfast, just for beginners, Cried for my lunch, and sleep for dinner.

I had a record deal with Sony in the beginning of the 90s, and I was rapping and singing in my band.

I hadn't talked to him in many, many years. He got a bad rap on "Heaven's Gate." I actually live in the hog ranch from "Heaven's Gate" in Montana. Mike Cimino gave me that set, the whorehouse, that's my house.

I have a very varied taste in music. Everything from rap to classical to Latino to Rat Pack to jazz.

I hate this shallow Americanism which hopes to get rich by credit, to get knowledge by raps on midnight tables, to learn the economy of the mind by phrenology, or skill without study, or mastery without apprenticeship.

I hate The Police so much I'd probably assassinate Sting, My System of a Down Rages Against the Machine. Tie you up in a Slipknot and hold Alice In Chains inside her dreams.

I have a dream: One day we will get to the promised land. Then the president will be me, The government will be Shabaam, Mos and Kweli...that's it! All wackness is now banned.

I have good pronunciation no matter what language I speak. Maybe it’s because my specialties are rapping and imitating others

I have done whole projects with Scoop Deville, I like to basically work with a single producer. I always just worked on a bunch of songs, and then put them together, whether it was an EP or another project. None of them were mixtapes where I was rapping over other peoples beats.

I have considered rap music stars, and there is one in my new book, Lovers and Players, and there is also a hip-hop music mogul who I think you will like a lot.

I have periods where I listen to regular rap, Jay-Z, Eminem and Lil Wayne. The next day I might have some Christian alternative music. The next day I have on some dance music. It all varies what I listen to.

I just knew what I wanted to be since the third grade. And I always did well in school, I was the type to get good grades, I never really got below Cs or nothing like that. I always kept it A-B. But there's no school for rap.

I have to be perfectly honest: You should have an anniversary to acknowledge the way I work the ebonics.

I heard when I talk, they all listen, They hang on every word from the God, they all Christians. I baptize 'em with lines, this is y'all christenin' Bless with the gift of my presence, this y'all's Christmas.

I just don't want to be rapping forever. I love it, but sometimes you got goals for yourself.

I just need the junkies and the liars and the thieves, I need the pimps, prostitutes and pushers out in the streets. That's where I'm seeking God, cause that's where He found me.