Quotes About Rap

That's what I used to do; I would just go into the studio and just rap. But it's all about coming up with dope concepts and dope hooks.

I'm not a character, so how I rap is just an everyday thing.

I was kind of shy about telling people that I could rap for the longest.

The godfather of rap, that is what I am known as, and the king of party records, the records I do.

We're not just three guys in a rap act. We want all sorts of people at our gigs.

I don't listen to much rap outside of Run DMC and the Beasties, but then I'm pretty burned out on most new music.

Look at Pusha-T. He makes a certain type of rap music. 'Daytona' is that on the highest level.

I've always been a fan of rap music.

No, I can't do rap music!

I am obsessed with rap music - it's such a big part of my life.

What I'm trying to do is put back into rap music what's missing - which is the good part, the fun part, that party part.

I don't own a gun. I'm a pacifist. I am a critic of commercial gangsta rap music. I don't believe you change people or their flawed perspectives from a distance. You open their minds from up close, when they realize you respect and love them.

In rap music, even though the element of poetry is very strong, so is the element of the drum, the implication of the dance. Without the beat, its commercial value would certainly be more tenuous.

Growing up listening to rap music, you almost feel like you should have haters. That's an important part of being a successful musician. It's a good thing, I guess.

Listening to all these different musical genres from all over the world and listening to my father's record collection, the Irish folk influences from home. Of course they're all in there somewhere hiding within the lyrics and melodies. But rap music was the biggest influence on my way of writing and my performing.

I've always been a fan of music. I listened to a whole lot of oldies - I never really listened to rap music that much.

My mother was a - she worked at a halfway house. And one of the former inmates slid me a mix-tape full of different hip-hop songs. And so that was my first kind of experience with rap music.

If you make modern rap music, how do you write without ripping off anyone else? It's just about having a distinct voice in your songs.

I kind of backed into rap music. I thought I was going to do comic books or graphic art.

When people say to me 'what do you think of rap music?' my answer is there's no such thing. There's rap and there's music.

There is rap music in all my films. In 'La Vie des Morts,' there is rap music too. It's because I'm French, and when it appeared in 1978, it was so new, it set off my musical imagination.

I can't listen to rap music; it's not my thing. They say that they're the modern poets: of course they are, but it's not for me.

Serious rap music puts me to sleep.

When rap music needed to have a teacher, I became it.