Quotes About Rap

Rap always has that undertone of rebellion and I just wanted to explore it. I felt there was a rebel within me who was against everything - the education system and teachers, and even my parents.

Every day is the new experience or a new relationship or just something new that I can rap about that I've been through or I've witnessed.

This is just rap. I'm not trying to make people think I'm some sort of scientific wizard or inspirational poet.

With music, it's a therapy for me. So whatever I'm dealing with at the time, I talk about it when I rap.

I know some very political people who rap, and they say very political things and they'll never get a deal.

I definitely think, generally, rap is misogynistic.

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.

Take 7 emcees put em in a line And add 7 more brothers who think they can rhyme It'll take 7 more before I go for mine And that's 21 emcees ate up at the same time.

I made the decision that I was going to make rap music in, like, fourth grade, so it's been something I was saying for a long time.

This is the industry that wants [music], the rap industry. You have to be on deck all the time, but you do not have the time to do the album. It is an energy, it must be present in everyday life.

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.

Every time you see me that Hammer's just so hype I'm dope on the floor and I'm magic on the mic

I've been watching battle rap since that time period when Cassidy was hot, Murda Mook and Lux first when at it. That was a very pivotal time in hip-hop.

A lot of people heard about gin and juice for the first time from Snoop Dogg, but it was nothing new in rap music, and it was nothing new in the black community.

Let the voice be the voice of the voiceless and let it come from the world of rap music to keep the stereotype and the peace at the same time.

It's natural. I freestyle, meaning that I just rap. I might put words on paper, but I just put a beat on my rap, and go off the top of my head. It's something I've been able to do for a long time.

My songs can make you cry, take you by surprise at the same time, can make you dry your eyes with the same rhyme

By the time I got to record my first album, I was 26, I didn't need pen or paper - my memory had been trained just to listen to a song, think of the words, and lay them to tape.

I'm fascinated by rap and by hip-hop. I think there's a lot of poetry in it. There's a lot of anger, a lot of social energy in it. And I think you'd better listen to it pretty carefully, 'cause it's important.

The justification for rap rock seems to be that if you take really bad rock and put really bad rap over it, the result is somehow good, provided the raps are barked by an overweight white guy with cropped hair and forearm tattoos.

I highly respect Eminem. I rank him up there with Jay Z, Biggie and Nas.

Rap is a gimmick, but I'm for the hip-hop, the culture.

Rap is something you live; hip hop is something you do.

I don't want to see old people doing rap or rock and roll. It makes me cringe.