Top 1200 Gangster Rap Quotes & Sayings - Page 13

In America, an acquittal doesn't mean you're innocent, it means you beat the rap. My clients lose even when they win.

I am not a rapper. And I believe people in India are not even clear with the whole idea of rap or what it signifies.

Lil B opened up the floodgates for Odd Future, and now rap has a huge Internet culture.

It's an accompaniment to life. It's not something that I do to rap; I smoke when I open my eyes...I don't know any other feeling.

I grew up with bubble-gum rap. Seriously, in 2003, 2004, it was Chingy 'Right Thurr.'

And to turn it into rap wasn't too difficult besides just rhymin' the last words of each line.

My focus is anything that allows me to express myself. Rap, dance, photography. Those are my forms of expression.

At a recent education summit, President Obama admitted that he can't rap. When they heard, Americans said, 'Good!'

Rap culture is interesting and different and has purpose but it has a non-romantic view of life and of social feelings. There may be a void in that.

I look at rap as an opportunity to act. My head is full of different characters - in each song I'm auditioning a character.

For all my proclivities for thuggery, I am a typical middle-class dad. I'm a gangsta rap suburban father!

I think my genre is more 'reality rap'; I talk about my life and the struggles that I've been through.

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

I stick to Hindi rap. That is my USP. It gives an Indian essence to my music despite the foreign influence of the genre.

I grew up playing in rock bands while I was listening to rap records. I like a lot of stuff.

I don't consider myself to be bigger than nobody else in this game, so I'm not here to tell people what to rap about.

If women dabble in rap but they're not rappers, to get from dabbling to doing it is really difficult, confidence-wise.

Melissa Barak, an ex-City Ballet dancer and sometime choreographer, has put together an unspeakably dopey and incompetent mess called 'Call Me Ben,' combining ultra-generic dance, terrible dialogue and disastrous storytelling, about the founding of Las Vegas by the gangster Bugsy Siegel, who insists, violently, on being addressed as 'Ben.'

David Bowie's my favorite musician. I love him above all, but I'm really into rap a lot right now.

Happiness has a bad rap. People say it shouldn't be your goal in life. Oh, yes it should.

I was reading a lot of European history, and I thought Attila the Hun had gotten a bad rap.

We want to challenge Marilyn Manson and the rap people with the bad lyrics to write some positive songs.

I really don't think I have a genre, honestly, 'cause I make such different music even though it is rap.

We are a metal band, period. To me, the 'nu' part infers some sort of a rap influence.

I think Broadway is waking up to the idea that rap is an incredible tool for telling a musical story.

I can rippity rap, lyrical miracle all day, but if you don't have a message behind it and you not saying nothing, it doesn't make sense.

It's a funny thing about rap, that when you say 'I' into the microphone, it's like a public confession. It's very strange.

I'm not a good dancer but Rap Monster is really terrible at it. The two of us are ultimate dance rivals.

You don't want me to sing. I could do a really bad karaoke scene, if I had to, but I'd probably choose to rap.

My most revered hero is Robert Johnson. His lyrics are so consistent with rap: the danger, the boldness, the creativity.

We culture. Rap is the new rock 'n roll. We the rockstars. It's been like that for a minute, Hedi Slimane!

When I was growing up, to be an emcee meant to write the most clever, intellectual, and wittiest rap. And that's what we did.

As I ran for president, I hoped that one child would come out of the ghetto like I did, could look at me walk across the stage with governors and senators and know they didn't have to be a drug dealer, they didn't have to be a hoodlum, they didn't have to be a gangster. They could stand up from a broken home, on welfare, and they could run for president of the United States.

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

I think music talks to you on an emotional level, regardless of where you're from. I guess I related to the tempo of rap, the aggressiveness.

As long as I'm around the cats in the hip hop scene, they'll throw me a track and I'll write a rap over it.

I started DJing, breakdancing and MCing in the '70s and I got my record deal in 1979 with 'Christmas Rap.'

The first rap CD that I had, it was so different for me. The energy, the wordplay, all that caught my attention, and I liked it.

When I started listening to rap music, I loved the fact that there were stories being told in 16 bars.

My contract with Rap-A-Lot was never-ending and had me working for everything against royalties.

Reality does get a bad rap. But I'm not concerned about it 'cause I know who I am. They can edit it, but you are in charge of what you do.

I didn't ever want to make a rap album. I considered it too limiting. Now that's exactly what I've gone and done

There's no difference between a tacky Jew from Miami and a rap star. They both want the Cadillac and the Rolex with the diamonds.

The fact that rap has a strict meter and stays to a click means that you have to make your thoughts concise.

Well I'm a sire, I set the microphone on fire, Rap styles vary, and carry like Mariah

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

I really just blend like rock, R&B and rap together to create a sub-genre, but it's very versatile.

Hip-hop is not about crime. Hip-hop is not about being a gangster.

I'm writing songs to perform, to entertain. And when I'm really trying to get inspired, I go backwards, and I just rap.

Imagine the first time you are about to rap in a studio and you find yourself in a booth with Redman and KRS!

Broccoli gets such a bad rap. This is perplexing to those of us who love that green, treelike, stalky vegetable.

What inspires me about rap is that it's written in an almost poetic way. I just think it's so cool.

A congressman is a pig. The only way to get his snout from the trough is to rap it sharply with a stick.

I have a very varied taste in music. Everything from rap to classical to Latino to Rat Pack to jazz.

For a long time I heard rap without paying attention, but it is still a way of life, even when you're a kid.

I listen a lot to rap, and I'm inspired to take it, to use it in another way, to get the message across.

I'm not blowing my own trumpet here, but I made a rap song 20 years ago with Afrika Bambaataa.

We just play whatever we're into. For a while there, we weren't listening to too much rap stuff, 'cause there wasn't anything interesting.

I don't want to see old people doing rap or rock and roll. It makes me cringe.

I am a huge Eminem fan and find it flattering that he would rap about me. Personally, I'm honored.