Quotes About Rap

I love Lady Gaga and I love Katy Perry and R&B and rap music... I love big, American pop music.

Either I'm listening to rap music, getting hyped up to go out and do something, or I'm listening to church music.

I think rap music is the sole reason for a lot of black acceptance in pop culture; because the music is very popular, it gets our image out in other ways than in movies.

I fell in love with music at 13-years-old. I wanted to be a singer at first and a drummer. Then I fell in love with rap music.

Rap is rhythm and poetry. Hip-hop is storytelling and poetry as well.

Rap is poetry to music, like beatniks without beards and bongos.

It just happens to be that people like to associate poetry and rap music. I think that idea is kind of corny.

This disease they call 'rap' - some kind of rhythmic pulse is going by, while some sociopathic idiot is belching out grade school poetry.

I always did poetry, and [rap music is] pretty much hip-hop melody with poems.

Lenny Bruce genius was the unique ability to investigate hypocrisy and expose social inequities in a street rap that was really a form of poetry.

There are rap groups that have a positive outlook in their art. These groups should be shown as an alternative to gangsta rap.

Rap is poetry to music, like beatniks without beards and bongos.

I'm not saying I'm God. But as far as lyrics, I'm God MC.

Rap to me is a modern blues. But until we really confront the truth, we are going to have a Tupac or Eminem or Biggie Smalls to remind us about it - and thank God.

My favorite song is Eminem's 'Rap God.' That joint is just incredible, It's six-and-a-half minutes of him just crushing the whole game. It's so different from what I hear if I listen to the radio.

Lil Wayne is a music god!!!!

Well, Eminem, you know, I know him longer. Ive been signed to his label since 2001 and hes a good friend.

I couldn't do rap. I was trying. I don't know how. I'm not good enough to know.

The government recognized immediately that Rap music has enormous revolutionary potential and politicians immediately came together to end it.

Humor is really important to me. All my favorite writers are writers I consider to be funny, including Tolstoy and Dostoevsky, even though that's not necessarily their rap.

50 is Eminem's favourite rapper... I'm my favourite rapper.

I'm in my dressing room about to play to a sold-out crowd at the O2 arena in Ireland. Name a female rapper who's ever done that and I will give you $100,000.

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.

Tom Wolfe, of all people, was the first person who ever told me about rap music. He liked to go to Harlem and the Bronx to watch the crews battle it out, and he was writing rap lyrics of his own.