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Quotes About Rap

The women like us because we're the first real women rappers, and the men like us because we're strong. We're not some soft little rappers with soft little voices. The men who see us end up going, 'Hey! They're kickin' it!'
~ Pepa
I am used to experiencing so much trauma, that when I see it, I have to speak out. I don't think rappers have a responsibility, but if you don't say something or be silent or avoid it, I believe it shows your true real character to the world. It's like, if no one wants to rap about gentrification then I am going to fill that void!
~ JPEGMAFIA
Nothing I do is ever void of melody. I know it might seem like I'm doing a lot of rapping, but I'm always utilizing tone and trying to find a key signature. So, I don't look at myself as a rapper.
~ Anderson Paak
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.
~ Hal David
Me and Goldlink have known of each other for a minute and our managers know each other so they set up a studio session. When we got in the studio, we was cool; we're from the same area so we have a lot in common.
~ Brent Faiyaz
The stuff I rap about is what I've seen, you know? That's basically why I rap more about the struggle than the shine and all that. Because I've seen more struggle than anything.
~ Boosie
I like J. Cole when he's not taking shots at me.
~ Mase
Big shout out to Nas: if you want to scream my name out again and put my name in your rhyme, I think it's funny. Let's make some money from it. Just don't take it so serious, man.
~ Damon Dash
Shout out to the greatest of all time, Eminem. Definitely appreciate the love... He gave me a few over the years.
~ Paul Wall
I'd love to work with Drake. I got Drake beats.
~ Flying Lotus
Lyrics over some nice beats - that's what the people want from us.
~ Ghostface Killah
Not anyone can rap to my beats.
~ Madlib
You gotta be crazy to want beef with Eminem and MGK is that.
~ Cordae
The American Nazi Party asserts that they are not White supremacists, merely separatists. They also specifically want to ban modern art and rap music. So it goes.
~ Adam Rutherford
Of course I'm a big fan of Migos and we crossed paths on the road a bunch of times.
~ Lil Jon
My middle school years were defined by memorizing every single word off 'License to Ill' and 'Paul's Boutique.'
~ Adam F. Goldberg
I've never rapped. I karaoke-d 'Paul Revere' from Beastie Boys when I was 15, 14 years old, but that's it.
~ Shavo Odadjian
I was Eazy's pen, because he couldn't write lyrics.
~ The D.O.C.
The first album was 99 percent hard core to show you I was the best rhymer in the world.
~ Big Pun
I'm from the Bronx, so I am looking forward to performing before my homies. I'll keep it live in the house.
~ Big Bank Hank
Conservatives have rightly attacked rap for its misogyny, violence and over-the-top vulgarity. But it is important to remember that this music is a fairly accurate message from a part of society where human connections are fractured and impossible, so fraught with disappointments and pain that only an assault on human feeling itself can assuage.
~ Shelby Steele
We took Big Pun, a 700-lb Spanish guy, one of the greatest rappers ever, and made him a sex symbol. Women would wait on line to kiss him.
~ Fat Joe
Since I was a kid, I'd wake up every morning hearing a voice say, 'You're the greatest rapper ever.' I'm trying to prove that voice right.
~ Danny Brown
Some songs I rap before the beat even play and I enjoy doing that. I like walking the beat down.
~ DaBaby