Top 676 Rap Quotes

There are many collaborations I’d like to explore. One is to co-write a rap concerto with Eminem.

When you rap, you’re using all of yourself.

I can’t look at TV without seeing something that’s been influenced by rap. Even commercials for cereal. When I was small, I was a fan of cartoon characters – now the cartoon characters are rapping!

I was born in the studio. I knew I loved music. I found my niche at, like, seven or eight. That’s when I knew I wanted to rap.

I had a boom box with a dual cassette deck and a mic, so I used to make pause tapes. I think a lot of people started like that because it was all I had. I would just take rap records that I liked and just loop the beat by pressing pause and record and make, like, five minutes of these beats.

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

I came from the South Side of Chicago wanting to be a rap artist and make videos.

You have film actors doing TV, rap stars doing TV, with everyone kind of crossing the line.

I really like hip-hop and rap; that’s my main influence. I really wanna be more of a hip-hop artist.

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

Cash Money really had no intentions of being a rap label because when it started, it really was based on bounce. It was one bounce song after another. I started to doing bounce songs for them, and they jumped off.

There just hasn’t been a voice for that normal dude when it comes to rap.

I never tried to emulate that New York rap style. What I do is a quasi rap. It’s a honky rap, not a black rap. I find it puzzling that so many people have assumed I’m black.

Failure gets a bad rap, but I’d like to change that. Failure is necessary. Let it in. Chew it up, and use it as fuel for your soul.

I really love rap music. I grew up in the ’80s and ’90s with Public Enemy, N.W.A., LL Cool J – I’m a hip-hop encyclopedia. But I got kind of frustrated with the chauvinistic side of rap music, the one that makes it hard to write songs about love and relationships.

I think ‘Country Girl’ is one song that can veer into country or hip-hop or rap. You can listen to it and enjoy the humor and the fun in it.

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.

When people say to me, ‘What do you think of rap music?’, my answer is, ‘There’s no such thing. There’s rap, and there’s music.’

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

I love country music, but I also love gangster rap.

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

I ain’t drop an album since I was 25. I rap way better. I’ve experienced way more.

My dad and uncles listened to a lot of rap. My dad is a big fan of LL Cool J. Driving in the car with him, we’d listen to Jay-Z and Nas. My sister listened to a lot of No Limit, so I listened to Master P. and Cash Money – Lil Wayne and Juvenile. They had jewelry and nice cars. I was drawn to them.

One of the fun things as an actor is to find a character that if you were to look up a rap sheet about them, you might say, ‘I don’t really necessarily want to hang out with this guy’ or ‘I would never be this kind of guy in my life.’ I think it’s part of an actor’s job to say, ‘Maybe you could be.’

I didn’t tell anybody that I wanted to rap when I was in high school.

House, rap, R&B, disco rock, they are all part of hip-hop culture. Why you ain’t playing Kraftwerk along with Jay-Z? That’s hip-hop.

There’s a lot of rappers out there, a lot of gay girls expressing themselves; I’m not the first to say it; I’m not the first to rap about it. But I’m the one who broke down those doors that everybody has been trying to break down. I did that. I’m the one who went triple platinum first.

I know a lot of people who enjoy rap music who aren’t black. You can’t just say it’s black music. To segregate films the way Hollywood likes to segregate films, ultimately everyone loses.

I occasionally rapped along to some homegrown Korean rap. And then a friend introduced me to Wu-Tang and played me ‘Enter the 36th Chambers.’ It was very shocking. And then I started to look for different albums. This was pre-Internet, so it’s hard to find the music, and it was even harder to find music videos.

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

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

This is hip-hop. If you’ve got something you want to rap about, just rap about it, man.

I’ve been thinking of trying my hand at rap. I’ve been recording snippets on my BlackBerry.

I think L.A. gets a bad rap. L.A. is the same as everywhere else.

One of the reasons I know how to handle my business is because I know can’t rely on rap.

‘Kind of Blue’ is one of the best records of all time. Miles’ use of space is something rap fans can definitely appreciate. Sometimes you have to let the track breathe and throw a melody in here and there. He never did too much on ‘Kind of Blue.’ It’s the perfect vibe.

I used to do stand-up when I was in high school. But I was also making beats for this rap group, and when we got a record deal, I sort of stopped doing the comedy and focused on the music instead. When that ended, I decided to go back to school, take broadcasting, and start my show on public-access TV.

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

On the second half of ‘Under Pressure,’ I talk about my family, and there are voicemails on my phone from when I was on the road that actually make up the second half of the nine-minute song. I transcribe them and rap them as if I were my sister, my brother, or my father.

I just knew what I wanted to be since the third grade. And I always did well in school. I was the type to get good grades; I never really got below Cs or nothing like that. I always kept it A-B. But there’s no school for rap.

Sometime I rap for the house. Sometime I rap live.

I had been cut from the basketball team every year. But I was like, ‘I can turn it around! Michael Jordan made it!’ You see it a lot of times – you’ll have an athlete that you love, and then they’ll be like, ‘I also want to rap,’ and you’re like, ‘Don’t do that.’ I was that kid.

I can rap, I can sing, I can do whatever, you know what I’m saying? I can do rock.

I’m just a Harlem dude that can rap, and people dig my style and persona.

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

The L.A. rap scene is popping again because rappers stopped saying ‘West Coast.’ Nobody says that anymore. Fans of L.A. music were reaching and saying, ‘This is West Coast music,’ because nobody else liked it.

All I really want is a beat from Kanye West. I’ve met him, and I think he’s real cool with us. If I get that beat, I’m going to rap the best verse I ever dropped – even if it’s his worst beat.

I felt like for what I needed, Bad Boy got me… they got me covered. Especially Puff, man. He’s going to be the first billionaire rap entertainer. At the end of the day, they need me. Other artists-labels don’t need me, but Bad Boy and Puff needs me. And I need them. It goes both ways.

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 used to record songs, like, play the beat from one phone and have another phone recording me and just rap. Moving from that to a studio was like, ‘Damn, I never knew I could sound like this.’ It was just magic.

I’m not turning my back on music anytime soon, but it’s just a blessing to have options open. A lot of artists just have rap, and that’s it. But once rap stops, it’s hard to get into that Hollywood circle; it really is. It’s a whole ‘nother beast that people think they’re ready for, but they’re really not.

What I’m trying to do is put back into rap music what’s missing – which is the good part, the fun part, that party part.

I was literally told for ‘The Show Goes On’ that I shouldn’t rap too deep. I shouldn’t be too lyrical. It just needs to be something easy on the eyes. Like a record company telling Picasso that we don’t need these abstract interpretations of life, where people have to sit down and look at it and break it down.

I remember rap music. We used to party and dance off of it. Today it’s all about a whole different angle… Rappers are going against each other, and it’s more of a bragging, boasting thing.

Rap now is multi-generational, which has its own issues. My son is a big Cudi fan, but he does not like talking to me about Kid Cudi.

My core thing is gangster rap, but a lot of my music is melodic and carries a message of survival.

‘Pinata’ is a great rap record for jazz fans.

Rap bores me, and all the glamour rock groups like Bon Jovi just amuse me. They obviously have a place, but they all sound like they use the same guitar player to me.