Top 1200 Gangster Rap Quotes & Sayings - Page 14

Ultimately, I really like to rap, and seeing what I can do to keep it fresh for myself has lent itself to tailoring over time.

Hip-hop was my first audience - I would rap in the mirror, walk down the street and listen to my Walkman.

This is just rap. I'm not trying to make people think I'm some sort of scientific wizard or inspirational poet.

I look forward to parts that have a dimension or depth to them. This makes it interesting for me to do and the audience to watch. Whether he's a chocolate boy die hard romantic or a gangster with swag, every good has a little bad and every bad has a little good in them.

I feel like there's a lot of rappers that could out-rap me and I wouldn't want to face any of them.

I go to a lot of stand-up comedy. I find more inspiration from observational stuff than from rap.

'The Sopranos' gets praised as novelistic, but it follows the most banal of life patterns, showing the sheer tedium of being a mobster. It has dead spots, boring plotlines, weak episodes. Characters develop slowly, or don't. Like viewers, a gangster might get bored, fade out of the action, then come back to find none of his debts forgotten.

Jay-Z and Kanye West are to authentic rap culture what diseased rates were to 14th century Europeans

Jay Prince was instrumental in everything that came out of Rap-a-Lot, especially anything that had to do with the Geto Boys or Scarface.

I was straight listening to rap at 15: LL Cool J, the Skinny Boys, Whistle, UTFO. And Run-D.M.C.'s debut was at the top of my list.

Yo, you 14-carat gold slum computer wizard, Tappin' inside my rap vein causes blizzards!

Before rap came along, I was, actually, actively in the streets; getting in trouble, doing the wrong thing.

Rap records don't make you feel good no more. Six months after release, it can't come back as a classic.

I got into music via the competitions; the first time I ever performed was in a kind of rap battle, competing for money.

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

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.

Rap records don't make you feel good no more. Six months after release, it can't come back as a classic

Driving by my ambitions, desire higher positions, to see eternally and my mission, to be more than just a rap musician.

I love Huma Qureshi. She was amazing in 'Gangs Of Wasseypur.' I also love Richa Chaddha. She played a mother in 'Gangs Of Wasseypur.' And then I saw 'Fukrey' where she played a gangster, and I couldn't believe it was the same girl.

Rap is really just too conventional. Everybody does the same thing. No one ever pushes the box.

I'm very proud of what I was able to do during the '90s, when baggy pants were in and East/West rap was relevant and all these different things.

Punishing enemies and rewarding friends - politics Chicago style - seems to be the unifying principle that helps explain the Obamacare waivers, the NLRB action against Boeing and IRS's gift tax assault on 501(c)(4) donors. They look like examples of crony capitalism, bailout favoritism and gangster government. One thing they don't look like is the rule of law.

I would be very nervous to rap I think if it ever comes to that! I'm going to try to steer clear as long as possible.

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

I am an activist and rapper from Afghanistan, and I use rap to speak out and help end child marriage.

There are certain fans who want me to rap about the same exact thing, but it's time to grow up.

I was doing jokey rap stuff in high school. But it was never serious. It was always, like, 'It'd be cool to do this as a form of comedy.'

I been in the game for 10 years making rap tunes... Ever since honeys was wearing Sassoons.

There were eras of English music where people tried to rap in American accents and we lost our way.

We were in the heart of the ghetto in Chicago during the Depression, and every block - it was probably the biggest black ghetto in America - every block also is the spawning ground practically for every gangster, black and white, in America too.

(Chicago is) the only major city in the country where you can easily buy your way out of a murder rap.

In the early '80s, it was hard to find celebrities you can identify with if you lived in the hood. There weren't any rap videos at the time.

Everybody knows with rap artists, if you can't go to the hood, it's almost like you're not authentic, even if you're a dope artist that's respected.

That's one of my struggles as a hip-hop artist. If I feel like doing a super conscious song where I don't even rap.

Los Angeles gets a very bad rap, the perception, especially by us Brits, is 'Oh, it's so fake,' but it's the antithesis!

I like 'The Usual Suspects'. Great film. I also like 'Scarface', films like that. Lots of gangster films. I really like watching all kinds of films, dramas, romance. I'll watch comedies. I like Al Pacino, Robert De Niro, Denzel Washington, Chris Rock, Dave Chappelle. I'd like to meet them.

Learning how to rap actually improved my English, because it forced me to talk fast, and I used to suck at that.

Tupac was actually pro-choice, which is fantastic. Of course, those moments in rap are few and far between.

With Rage, we wrote riff rock and had rap vocals, so we didn't really concern ourselves with melody for the most part.

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

My biggest influence is rap. It spoke to me, probably because of my upbringing in Christiania. You listen to 'The Chronic' and you can hear that anger and frustration.

The truth is that every intelligent man, as you know, dreams of being a gangster and of ruling over society by force alone. As it is not so easy as the detective novels might lead one to believe, one generally relies on politics and joins the cruelest party.What does it matter, after all, if by humiliating one's mind one succeeds in dominating every one? I discovered in myself sweet dreams of oppression.

I wasn't fully aware of the things that Madlib did musically, but my manager put me up on game. I'm not gonna act like I was a Madlib head when I wasn't. I didn't understand a lot of it at first. But it opened my mind to some things, and it's me bringing that gangster element to things that he does. It's like a perfect marriage.

OutKast. For them to come back together to rap with me and my brother Krizz Kaliko would be ginormous.

I've always had a passion for rap, and I might not be the greatest rapper, but I'm better than half of them out there.

People really listen to your lyrics if you rap. So, I had to make sure that they were clear and concise.

Once upon a time Americans didn't want to listen to Canadian rap and now Drake's the biggest rapper in the world.

Die Antwoord will be presented to the world as a wild and savage rap crew from the deep, dark depths of Africa.

So much of rap sounds the same, and that's okay, but that means some people want something that can be the complete opposite too.

My daughter is going to college and I'm very proud of her and my son is pursuing his own career in rap.

Woman stock is rising in the market. I shall not live to see women vote, but I'll come and rap on the ballot box.

Jersey gets a bad rap. Most people make an assessment of this state on the ride from Newark Airport into Manhattan.

We tell our children they're trapped like rats on a doomed, bankrupt, gangster-haunted planet with dwindling resources, with nothing to look forward to but rising sea levels and imminent mass extinctions, then raise a disapproving eyebrow when, in response, they dress in black, cut themselves with razors, starve themselves, gorge themselves, or kill one another.

If you get the disco or rap format on the radio, an R&B record doesn't fit, because it will break up the mood.

There's nothing wrong with a woman being proud of an element of her life that's talked about in rap music all the time!

Anything that's of any use, famous people get hold of it and take it for themselves and it gets a bad rap.

Chance The Rapper is just unreal: he's changing rap and really creating this whole amazing new style.

We think the man with the best rap will protect and save us, but it's not usually that way. Love is something deeper and purer.

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

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.