Quotes About Rap

There are many collaborations I'd like to explore. One is to co-write a rap concerto with Eminem.

When I rap, it's just an extension of how I speak, and that's how I talk. If you don't like it, don't listen.

An MC is somebody who can control the crowd. An MC is a master of ceremonies so not only can you say your rap, you can rock the party.

The bar is so low in rap - mediocrity is king!

I actually grew up break-dancing. When you break-dance you listen to hip-hop and rap, so I've been listening to that music since I was a kid.

David Bowie's my favorite musician. I love him above all, but I'm really into rap a lot right now.

I'm also not going to explain something just because I said it in a rap. Take what you want from it.

A lot of the music, and especially rap, I don't understand.

Hip-hop was my first audience - I would rap in the mirror, walk down the street and listen to my Walkman.

A lot of the rap shows I saw as a kid were boring, but if you went to a Rage show or a Justice show, the kids were losing their minds.

I still to this day get the most inspiration from rap lyrics.

I do think musical-theater actors can get a bad rap, and I see why. There is a certain slickness - there's nothing better than an amazing musical, but an okay musical can be one of the worst times you've ever had.

You don't want me to sing. I could do a really bad karaoke scene, if I had to, but I'd probably choose to rap.

I understand the bad rap that 3-D is getting because the conversions are crappy and because the films aren't designed for 3-D. It's a completely different medium.

Odd Future's like a network as opposed to like a rap group.

Rap is supposed to be about keeping it real and not relinquishing your roots in the community. Without that, it's just posturing. Somebody who claims to speak for the 'hood don't need no private jet.

When you look at a guy like a Jay-Z or look at a guy like a Nas, you don't necessarily qualify them as conscious rap purely, although they are extremely conscious of the social inequities that prevail.

I am looking to get into the grime rap U.K. scene.

You can still make music that people love, but there won't be more innovation. I started listening to electronic music a long time ago. But mostly I listen to rap. I think rap is the most interesting.

It's difficult to wear such high Louboutins and also freestyle rap.

I like rap. I like anything with soul. I like anything you can feel, anything that makes you think that the artist had to make that song, or they were going to go crazy.

Although rap is about boasting, it's also about honesty and expressing your emotions.

I really wish that I would have gone to college. Even my son, who's into rap himself, I tell him and tell his children, 'Go to college. Get that education - it is so important. Don't do like I did.' I had all this singing on my mind, and I just didn't have time for it.

I listen to a lot of music, and I listen to some rap, and I do like listening to Biggie Smalls.