Top 336 Rapping Quotes & Sayings

I never knew anything about rapping.

I was rapping at eight.

Early on, it was real tough for me to stick to my guns and say 'I'm retired, I'm not rapping, don't ask me for nothing.' But I had to do that because I love rapping and I love music, so if I don't do that, you can't be halfway in it and halfway out.

I've been rapping since I was 13.

It was dope to the point where I felt like Common almost admired me as much as I admired him. He took us to the hotel, and then he was going through his phone, rapping his raps to me. I was like, Is Common rapping to me right now, trying to get my feedback?

We were from downtown, so we were rapping in Danceteria, in these white downtown clubs, really. Nobody downtown was rapping. Nobody we knew was rapping. So we were like, 'We should do it.' We weren't making fun of it; we loved it, and we wanted to be part of it.

I'm not completely at ease at rapping, I can't do it well yet.

When we're rapping on these records, we're either rapping about our past lives or things our people are going through right now in the struggle. It's not necessarily what we're going through ourselves.

I hate English kids rapping - complete crap.

When I first came back into the booth, I starting rapping.

Rapping is talking and communicating, and that's always good.

I like challenging myself. I like the challenge of rapping to fast beats, rapping to beats that are super slow, whatever. I like the challenges, so I'm not afraid to take on any piece of music and create a song to it if it feels right to me.

To me, I'm on a whole different level of rapping.

When I was a kid, I was just rapping about school and stuff like that.

I don't want to just be fully rapping my whole life.

When I started Fool's Gold and producing consistent records that were like electro beats with rapping on it that was experimental and weird. I made a mixtape called Dirty South Dance where I put rap vocals over dance music. That was literally an experiment. Now all these rappers are rapping on dance music. This is something I've been trying to build for a while.

Ever since I was a kid I've been rapping.

I'm not ever going to stop rapping. I love rap.

I believe being honourable lasts longer than rapping good.

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

I accept who I am. Rapping is not my forte.

When I'm rapping, I become very emotional, and people can feel it through my face.

I started rapping towards the end of middle school. In high school, with a lot of my friends, we would make beats and just start rapping - beating on the wall, beating on the table and freestyling.

I don't have to work on it. I'm naturally a writer. The rapping and writing, they can go hand-in-hand - but rapping is an art that you have to practice and master, so I worked at it for a long time.

I'm always gonna rap. Rapping's what I started doing, I even sang when I first started rapping, when I couldn't really sing at all but I always tried.

I was singing R&B before I was rapping, and I never really enjoyed it. But when I started rapping, I was like, 'This is sick - I'm actually alright at rapping!'

When I was 16, I was rapping just to rap.

Money is important in the rap industry because you're always rapping to be bigger than the other person - bigger than who you're rapping to. A lot of my music is really, really, really humbled down. I don't have as much money as the average rapper, but I'm still good.

Rapping can be repetition sometimes. Sometimes you gotta highlight your words in a certain kind of way. So I always was a fan of sing-rapping. It was always funny to me a little bit, and I think that being funny and being able to laugh, even at yourself, is a form of flattery.

I would say I started rapping because my friends were doin' it.

I started rapping because my mom died when I was about 11 years old, and I was a very rebellious kid. I've been kicked out of every school I've ever been in since 6th grade on, expelled and dropped out in the 11th grade. Music was the only thing that I could really use to express myself, so I started rapping.

To me, rapping is an art.

Before I was rapping, I was an interior designer and decorator.

I started rapping when I was 18-19.

I'm not, like, 'comedy rapping.'

Rapping works like a sport... the more you do it, the better you get at it.

I'm living proof that there's no age limit to rapping.

Eventually, I started to actually enjoy rapping.

I was rapping in 1939. It's old. The roots are complex. And kids don't know.

A lot of songs I'm kind of singing and rapping.

So with the freestyles, I just do it for fun. If I hear something that I like, I'm rapping on it.

I started rapping when I was about 12 or 13, just playing around with it.

I was rapping at school, at talent shows. I thought I was a little star.

I wanna keep rapping, I intend to. It's good to mix it up, but I'm still gonna stay true to rapping.

I'm thinking of the kids of the next generation and the music that they need to hear. Before, I was just rapping to rap. Now, I'm rapping to change the world.

You started rapping when you wasn't good at basketball. I started rapping because I needed Adderall.

If you're really a rapper, you can't stop rapping.

Rapping is my dream, but my kids make me happy.

Rapping about a surgery is something that makes sense for me to do.

I've always been surrounded by music. The arts have been in my life for a long long time. It was just always around. I can remember as far back as third grade, me rapping, pencil on the desk rapping type s**t. So I always had a passion for it.

I went to Sirius Satellite Radio and did my show, Rapping With Rip.

Well, I've been rapping for a long time.

I've been rapping since 1979.

Rapping is the only time I'm serious.

When I got into high school and I was rapping, it was the attention I was loving. It was so hype.

Rapping was a hobby; when I went to college, there were a ton of dudes rapping. I think that's where I got my rapping chops up.

It never crossed my mind that I was the white guy rapping. I was best friends with Chamillionaire and whatever he did, I did. If he rapped, I rapped. It was something we did for fun at the track meets or basketball games. Or get in these freestyle cyphers with other schools. Me and Cham rapping together.

Any given Sunday you'll catch me rapping and joking.

Once upon a midnight dreary, while I pondered, weak and weary, Over many a quaint and curious volume of forgotten lore--While I nodded, nearly napping, suddenly there came a tapping, As if some one gently rapping, rapping at my chamber door. "'Tis some visitor," I muttered, "tapping at my chamber door--Only this and nothing more.

I'm not rapping, I'm conversing. It's just a conversation between me and you.