Top 1200 Rap Music Quotes & Sayings - Page 3

We loved that form of music. We're all huge rap fans, so we just incorporated it.

I can't really rap the way rappers rap; I drive a 2002 Toyota Avalon.

My earliest memories of rap music was mixed with my earliest memories of reggae music. They were big sounds around the way, heavy bass lines, strong messages, definitely.

Skateboarding was my introduction to rap and the first rap song that I really liked was KRS-One 'Step Into A World.'

I feel like I have a lot of rhythm because I'm from the DMV. Because you got so many different types of music: Baltimore Club music, Go-Go, then you got the DMV rap music scene, then you got the DMV R&B music scene. It's a lot of music and it's a lot of taste that caters to most.

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.

I mean I'll be retired from rap, so what I'll be doin' in rap will be for fun.

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.

Everybody in the '80s, well, we hate rap. Now, the biggest rapper in the world... Eminem. Rap's a black thing.

The rap on Obama has been that he is a little too cool and aloof. The rap on Romney may be that he is just plain callous.

My music is pretty honest. I can't rap on science fiction. Punk is from the street.

I've never been into alternative, hipster rap music.

I never liked socially conscious rap. I like rap that's physical, that's about a beat and bass and repetition.

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

I don't really listen to rap; I just like to rap.

Nothing has more words and performance than rap music.

Rap is only one end of a whole spectrum of verbal play and virtuosity. Rap is geared for aural pleasure.

Atlanta is a very good scene for the type of music I'm making. The biggest radio stations are all trap or rap stations. All the clubs are just based around this music and just the southern sound, that's what I really love about the city.

I think, a lot of times, the mistake in music - even rappers that are trying to be big time - if you're broke, rap about being broke. If you're sensitive, rap about being sensitive, 'cause there are other sensitive people. If you're sensitive, but you talk about being a tough person that doesn't care about anything, people will call your bluff.

In my mind, New York was the place where they had the underground rap shows and I could get in on some ciphers and just rap. This whole fantasy world I had created in my head about New York just from listening to the music my whole life, like, I'ma go up there and do that. But when I came up here, there was none of that, that scene was dead.

I was, like, in a rap gang. I loved rap, and it was all around me.

What I miss is a time when hip-hop music had integrity; there was some kind of message. Not in all the music, because it's not for that, but there was at least something that got through that had some content that was sensible and positive, not just hooky junk-food rap.

I'm not crazy about the rap thing. Or house music.

By the late '80s, I was already giving up on rap music.

Rap music's the only thing that ever mattered.

Without the piano, I would never have attempted to rap, because I'm a poor rapper. I'm enthusiastic, but it takes me a long time to write eight bars of rap. I would battle any pianist, and yet I would forfeit happily before even getting into a rap battle with anyone.

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

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

Rap is poetry set to music. But to me it's like a jackhammer.

I just love music. Every genre of music: country, rock. I originally first loved punk rock. Pop punk. I don't know, just rock in general. And getting to rap. And now K-pop. Different types of music. I love everything.

As I was sitting there, the deejay was playing music and talking over the music, and the kids were going crazy. All of a sudden, something said to me, 'Put something like that on a record, and it will be the biggest thing.' I didn't even know you called it rap.

When you talk about rap you have to understand that rap is part of the Hip-Hop culture.

The whole point of 'Acid Rap' was just to ask people a question: does the music business side of this dictate what type of project this is? If it's all original music and it's got this much emotion around it and it connects this way with this many people, is it a mixtape? What's an 'album' these days, anyways?

Gangsta rap often reaches higher than its ugliest, lowest common denominator, misogyny, violence, materialism and sexual transgression are not its exclusive domain. At its best, this music draws attention to complex dimensions of ghetto life ignored by most Americans. Indeed, gangsta rap's in-your-face style may do more to force America to confront crucial social problems than a million sermons or political speeches.

I've never been massive on rap, but there's that whole kind of culture of U.K. 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.

It is a coincidence that Mathangi is the Goddess of Music and the spoken word, which can be rap.

I don't like being categorized as a rapper. I make music; I don't just rap.

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

I like African music but also R&B, rap, alternative rock, and classic.

I was a Southern California boy raised on rap music and cussed like a sailor.

In a way, all recorded music is reduced to the same level, no matter what it is. You find it in the store, you put it on and, "Oh, that's not cool. That's gangsta rap. That's white supremacist punk." But in a way, the content is removed from the intention of the people that made it. That's the commercial level of music.

With music, it's a therapy for me. So whatever I'm dealing with at the time, I talk about it when I rap.

I love soft music, slow tracks and rap.

My girlfriend is rap. Music and albums and records and my kids.

Serious rap music puts me to sleep.

Elvis Presley was rock 'n' roll, I thought that was pretty mediocre. But since that time, the succeeding steps in music has been down, just more degradation. Then we got into punk rock, and now we are into rap music, which is a total oxymoron.

But I feel like I developed my own love for hip-hop and rap music by myself. Just growing up and hearing new things. As you grow up, you begin to listen to new music that this kid is listening to, then you begin to like your own music, and start discovering it yourself.

I can't listen to rap music; it's not my thing. They say that they're the modern poets: of course they are, but it's not for me.

I am obsessed with rap music - it's such a big part of my life.

Personally more so than shock, I think, rap music has to be born of rebellion.

The average rap life is two or three albums. You're lucky to get to your second album in rap!

I just want everybody to have fun. When I came into rap, that was my whole inspiration. That's what rap used to be about.

One of the great things about rap music... it leaves a lot to be desired, as far as I'm concerned, musically, but I do recognize the very important place that it has in music and in creating role models for younger kids to emulate, giving them the dream that they can make it out of whatever situation they're in.

It's all about the flow and the beat. Rap is more than just music now.

I'm into a lot of music, definitely a lot of rap. 'Dedication 4', the Lil' Wayne album. Actually, I've been getting into some Swedish house music; the beat just keeps me going a little bit.

I've just really been into melody and lyrics and songwriting. Writing a rap, to me, is easy. I could write a rap like that. But writing songs and melodies and s**t that's hopefully going to stick around for 30, 40 years is f**king hard...If you have good songs and you're talented, people will eventually come to your shows, people will buy your music.

Before I even started listening to rap music, I was really into metal and punk.

Who gave it that title, gangsta rap? It's reality rap. It's about what's really going on.

Sometimes I feel like rap music is almost the key to stopping racism.