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Quotes About Rap

I had this little rap group, and we were called '2 Too Many'... We used to hang out in front of Jazzy Jeff's record studio every day.
~ Troy Carter
I was a huge fan of '90s hip-hop, and a lot of what they got their music from was funk and soul records. They just, like, take a clip of that and rap over it because, you know, that was just kind of what was up.
~ GRiZ
I hope people listen to the music. Don't write it off because there is a Christian doing it and it's been labeled that way, because if I'm honest with you, Christian rap for the most part has been corny.
~ Andy Mineo
Bohm's 'ontological interpretation' was so called because of the bad rap the word 'ontology' has had in our correlationist age. As a bit of a put-down.
~ Timothy Morton
I was doing jokey rap stuff in high school. But it was never serious. It was always, like, 'It'd be cool to do this as a form of comedy.'
~ Andy Samberg
My earliest memories of defying my parents were through music. I remember rap being banned in my house, and then getting a Cam'ron album.
~ Kerby Jean-Raymond
My goal for the rap game is just to make a lot of really dope music. That's really where I keep my mindset at: Just being obsessed over making something crazy and new every day.
~ Valee
If there's something you want to say or talk about, then that's what rap is all about - talking about your own experience.
~ Stefflon Don
I think everybody has their own inner rap spirit animal.
~ Lil Dicky
I feel like every time I make a beat, and the Migos rap on it, it's gonna be fire.
~ Zaytoven
When you work with Drake, you don't really work with Drake. You send him the song, he rap on it, then y'all done worked together. So it ain't like me and him sitting in the studio.
~ Zaytoven
There's not too many one-producer rap albums. There are lot of one-producer rock albums... and country albums.
~ No I.D.
I'm kind of a boring person. People think I get to travel the world and I rap or whatever, but I'm pretty boring. My life is pretty crazy enough, and when I'm not on the road or doing something, I'm kind of boring.
~ Trip Lee
When I first came in the game, I had a bunch of homies that rapped that was hanging around me just because I was getting the rap attention, and they felt they could feed off of that.
~ Freddie Gibbs
I'm trying to bring gangster rap back to the forefront, like in the early '90s.
~ Freddie Gibbs
You had Cash Money: that was just the flashy dudes. Like I said, you had different genres of rap, and we were just one of them. So that's how we fit in. What makes it all confusing - and this is where it's the gift and the curse - we never set out for hip-hop to turn into just something flashy. That was just our thing. It wasn't everybody's thing.
~ Mannie Fresh
The Cash Money sound pretty much changed the era. It kind of put the business into rap. It was like, 'Get your money, dude. This is a billion dollar business.'
~ Mannie Fresh
I'm a student of Ice Cube and Scarface, which means the stuff I rap about is not radio-friendly, and it's very opinionated. and it's very much from the perspective of a black man in America, and our opinion ain't always popular when we have a political opinion.
~ Killer Mike
When I was little, my dad showed me N.E.R.D., their first album, and I thought it was amazing. I thought Pharrell was just killing everything. That was my first introduction to rap.
~ Lil Xan
Lil Boat 2' people liked, but it was all rap. Some thought it was too much.
~ Lil Yachty
There just hasn't been a voice for that normal dude when it comes to rap.
~ Lil Dicky
I come from a very specific love of hip-hop. I'm saying hip-hop, not rap. That's what saved my life. I carry that badge with a lot of pride and honor, and I really enjoy trying to raise the perception and the bar of what we do.
~ No I.D.
I love rap, and I love the angst of hardcore music and punk rock.
~ Sonny Sandoval
The industry is starting to be more open to what we do. I just don't want us to be boxed in whatever people assume Christian rap should be. We're dudes who love hip hop, and we love Jesus, and that's going to be apparent in our music.
~ Trip Lee