Quotes About Rap

Snoop Dogg has had me to Hollywood to rap with him on his records, and the 2 Live Crew brought me to Miami and wined and dined me to make a record with them.

I had a lot of respect for Prodigy. He brought the hood to the booth. When we were trying to shape this rap thing into something, he was one of the cats I respected for bringing the hood into the booth.

I grew up listening to Jay-Z, and I think the first time I really became obsessed with learning and thinking about lyrics was when I started listening to rap; I was 11, 12, and started becoming aware of music beyond the familiar.

Some guy was just like, 'You rap fast, man. Like a little machine gun,' and from that moment, I was Lil Uzi.

I just want to paint that picture of Chicago that everybody's missing, and I just want to rap about it.

I pay attention to lyrics and I know what rap fans care about. I try to write for the average listener and I'm conscious of the mainstream without selling out.

My most revered hero is Robert Johnson. His lyrics are so consistent with rap: the danger, the boldness, the creativity.

I'm not crazy about the rap thing. Or house music.

One of the things that I'm dying to do is to sing the hook on a big rap song.

Cash Money really had no intentions of being a rap label because when it started, it really was based on bounce. It was one bounce song after another. I started to doing bounce songs for them, and they jumped off.

I haven't done rap... I can't do that too well.

I don't consider myself to be bigger than nobody else in this game, so I'm not here to tell people what to rap about.

I love that twinkly, girl rap. I've always loved that.

Lil B opened up the floodgates for Odd Future, and now rap has a huge Internet culture.

I always wanted to do something I knew I could love to wake up and do every day, and rap was just second nature to me, growing up in Harlem. I never really had to try.

I originally got my name after a gun because the way I rap; a gangster gave me the name in 1988.

I didn't realize how much harm I was doing back then and I think a lot of rap artists probably don't realize it now. I said a lot of stuff fooling around back then, and I saw it do a lot of harm.

Rap is poetry set to music. But to me it's like a jackhammer.

I'm just real in-tune with music - I really listen to R&B more than I listen to rap.

I don't have to put out another rap record. I can do it at my casual pace.

I was, like, in a rap gang. I loved rap, and it was all around me.

We're feminists. We're doing something that only guys are expected to do and doin' it right! At our concerts we'll do one hard-core rap song and then do one where we'll be real sexy.

I want to show other girls how happy I am and how confident I am, how I still want to go to school and I still want to rap.

You gotta do a lot more than rap. Rap is not just rap. If you don't have an image, you're not capturing nobody's attention.