Quotes About Rap

I think rap definitely has its place in the art world. I think it is an art form. But, just like any art form, you can misuse it.

No one raps about food like I do. I rap about fine dishes - like, all kinds of things that only real chefs and real foodies are going to know about.

As far as rap goes, I grew up in Hollis, Queens, so early influences were people like Run DMC and LL Cool J.

I got started as a producer first, but really, I feel my beats had more life than anyone could rap on them.

I'd dropped out of high school without really doing it on purpose - I'd just go home at lunch 'cos I didn't have friends, then stay there all afternoon listening to rap. It got to the point where I wouldn't have passed even if I'd gone back. I was depressed, basically.

One of the first albums that I remember, rap albums I remember really listening to, was LL Cool J 'Mama Said Knock You Out.'

We are a metal band, period. To me, the 'nu' part infers some sort of a rap influence.

I don't listen to rap all the time. Even though I rap, rap can be nerve-wracking.

Rap is very competitive. I just think I'm light years better than anybody.

My character is meant to know nothing about rap, and not to like it very much, but I know about it, because my kids make me listen to it. There's some rap I do like very much. I like Eminem, Blackalicious.

Jay Z and Nas is probably my favorite rap beef because Nas was kinda quiet for a while.

I think rap is creating a reverse racism.

I know I do swag rap also, but I also take it seriously. It's like 50-50.

I definitely don't want to be one of the bad guys. And I don't want to be one of the people who bring rap a bad name. That's not me.

The rap game without me would be like woofers without bass.

And to turn it into rap wasn't too difficult besides just rhymin' the last words of each line.

I think stuff on the radio is mostly good, but it's just not what I'm into. I'm not into rap metal.

I don't know where these rap guys get off trying to act so hard.

Rap evolves and to still be current you have to evolve with it! Get in front or get left behind.

I'm just basically spillin' out my emotions to the world. 'Cause rap is about emotion. And I want you to feel what I'm feelin', 'cause that's what it's all about.

I mean I'll be retired from rap, so what I'll be doin' in rap will be for fun.

Look at music: I've always loved hiphop and rap, and now there's this whole progressive movement, with De La Soul and Mos Def, Common. It's some of the best stuff around.

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.

I didn't ever want to make a rap album. I considered it too limiting. Now that's exactly what I've gone and done.