Quotes About Rap

I always wanted the flowiness that hip-hop artists had. I always admired how they rapped so fast, but I never wanted to rap; I wanted to sing the rap.

I love a lot of music that's considered folk music, but I also love a lot of music that's considered punk or considered rap. I don't mind being called a folk singer. But it seems a bit limiting. I want to be able to write whatever kind of song I want.

I got into rap because I can't sing. If I could sing, I'd be a singer.

I'm a singer and a writer first. I started to rap by accident, being playful.

I never really thought I was going to be a singer, honestly. I never listened to singers; I always listened to rap music.

I really believed in 2 Chainz, I really believed in Future, and I was going to the studio with them every single day.

The rap community has been singled out as more homophobic than other groups, but I don't think that's right. It's homophobic, all right, but no more so than the heavy-metal community or the Hollywood community or any other community.

Rap's conscious response to the poverty and oppression of U.S. blacks is like some hideous parody of sixties black pride.

I have been skeptical, sometimes, about the importance of rap music, which I think is a capitalistic project to make money.

I'm gonna be the rap game Kevin Durant! He is so skilled, and no matter his situation or where he go, he never misses. I'm the same.

My own rapping skills are quite good, actually. You get this thing, I think it's called Songify or AutoRap, and you talk into them, and they auto-tune it and make it into a quite interesting musical number. And I got one where it builds it into a rap.

It would be pretty funny to see a Beverly Hills white girl with mad rap skills.

I love listening to Lil' Wayne, Drake, and Eminem to get me fired up!

The gap that was created during those transatlantic voyages hundreds of years ago. That gap is the matrix of Saudade – The Longing, I think, that all Africans in the West have, that is at the root of the blues and jazz and soul and rap. If you listen you can hear it, elusive, fleeting, full of melancholy anger.

I would suggest that teachers show their students concrete examples of the negative effects of the actions that gangsta rappers glorify.

I've done interviews with Cardi, I met her face-to-face and she was so humble.

One of my best friends is quite into rap, and I'm always being introduced to music by him.

Well I invented horrorcore rap actually. When I did 'Chuckie' and when I did 'Mind of a Lunatic' - there was nothing like that.

I got invited to work on Dre's 'Compton' project.

I remember going on iTunes and 'Hamilton' was like the number one rap album, above like Fetty Wap, which is just impossible, like a Broadway cast album.

My entryway into hip-hop was - my biggest introduction was obviously like, you know, the Def Jam, Run D.M.C., Beastie Boys, like, that conglomerate.

I'm rap-game James Franco.

I listened to a lot of Jay Z and Nas, stuff like that, so I was always New York-influenced. I think I have that New York flow.

I actually went to high school with Jay Rock.