Quotes About Rap

Left Eye, man...who else has more personality than Left Eye?

My mic is a Magnum. See me and this chick, we go back like Cro-Magnon. Man...we did it in the back of your Magnum; I said, 'Put them Lifestyles back, give me the Magnums.'

I've always been rapping before I was making money off of it. Before I made a profit, I had always been rapping.

Luckily for me, I became a rap star so I'm making enough money to support my family. It's funny because that may seem like the only way that I can do such a task.

Listen Columbo you're mad because your money come slow And what you make in a year I make in one show

I understand what rappers are talking about. I think rap is less about educating people about the black community and more about making money.

I've always listened to a lot of rap. It's all, 'Look at this car that cost me so much money, look at this Champagne.' It's super fun.

I gave birth to most of them MC's... So when it comes around to the month of May, Send me your royalty check for Mother's Day.

When I was in south Sudan, people used to rap in my village. But the rapping was more in the mother tongue, Nuer.

I ain't a rapper; I'm a motivational speaker. I don't do shows; I do seminars. I really talk to people.

Straight from the heart, I represent hip hop I be three albums deep, but I don't wanna go pop Too many candy rappers seem to be at the top Too much candy is no good, so now I'm closing the shop.

Rap music is just computerised crap. I listen to Top of the Pops and after three songs I feel like killing someone.

The music becomes more pure and soulful when it's true, and it has to be true these days with the way the internet works, and the way the game works, everyone wants authentic raps.

Rap has been a path between cultures in the best tradition of popular music.

I'm 100 percent original, and that's what got me here. My rap music is more understandable, slower. It tells a story. You can write a book on each of my thoughts.

Rap actually comes out of punk rock, not black music.

Ego is my career. Rap music is all ego.

Rap is the only interesting music left - it's the only genre that's still pushing itself, and experimenting in a way that I find exciting.

I think rap music is brought up, gangster rap in particular, as well as video games, every other thing they try to hang the ills of society on as a scapegoat.

Rap is always evolving. It's easy for the old school to hate the new school, but it's a music that got a little stifled I think, by the Internet a little bit.

Rap music came along and saved my life. I started to tell the stories of the streets and that was my way out.

Rap music's been around for too long now to be inspirational. The words are, but the music isn't.

People in my family and camp who grew up listening to rap music love 'We Are Young.' I've heard it play at weddings. I've heard it in graduation parties. It's a big idea and big song.

I'm actually a huge fan of hip-hop. I like hip-hop music. I love rap. I like cabaret music, as well. I just love live music and bands.