Rap is something you do Hip Hop is something you live — KRS-One
Rap is rhythm and poetry. Hip-hop is storytelling and poetry as well. — Ajay Naidu
Rap music is just computerised crap. I listen to Top of the Pops and after three songs I feel like killing someone. — George Harrison
Rap music is the only vital form of music introduced since punk rock. — Kurt Cobain
Rap is a gimmick, but I'm for the hip-hop, the culture. — Method Man
I love rap because it talks about pain that comes authentically from the ghetto. It moves me. — Zubin Mehta
Rap comes from the oral tradition. The oral tradition gives voice to those who would've otherwise been voiceless. — Benjamin Zephaniah
Nowadays rap artists coming half-hearted,
Commercial like pop, or underground like black markets.
Where were you the day hip-hop died?
Is it too early to mourn? Is it too late to ride? — Talib Kweli
Gangsta rappers can't fight, so they rap about guns. — Sean Price
Rappin bout blunts and broads, Tits and bras, ménage à trois, sex in expensive cars. — The Notorious B.I.G.
Straight from the heart, I represent hip hop
I be three albums deep, but I don't wanna go pop
Too many candy rappers seem to be at the top
Too much candy is no good, so now I'm closing the shop. — Phife Dawg
Sometimes I feel like rap music is almost the key to stopping racism. — Eminem
I don't even listen to rap. My apartment is too nice to listen to rap in. — Kanye West
Rapping just gave me something to do versus the streets. — 21 Savage
If I wasn't in the rap game,
I'd probably have a key knee-deep in the crack game.
Because the streets is a short stop:
Either you're slinging crack rock or you got a wicked jump shot. — The Notorious B.I.G.
Short Rap Song Quotes
Rappers spit rhymes that are mostly illegal,
MC's spit rhymes to uplift their people. — KRS-One
Street's disciple, my raps are trifle.
I shoot slugs from my brain just like a rifle. — Nas
Well, hip-hop is what makes the world go around. — Snoop Dogg
The principles of true hip-hop have been forsaken,
It's all contractual and about money makin'. — Black Thought
Rap Song Image Quotes
Those who are heartless, once cared too much. — Frank Ocean
Revenge is like the sweetest joy next to gettin' pussy. — Tupac Shakur
It's like I know what I gotta say, I just don't know how to say it to you. — Drake
A friend is someone who knows the song in your heart, and can sing it back to you when you have forgotten the words.
Rap Music Quotes
I made the decision that I was going to make rap music in, like, fourth grade, so it's been something I was saying for a long time. — Chance the Rapper
Rap music is a combination of many different arts to make something new. There's always been a stigma that its existence would be short and only appeal to a certain group - but it's the biggest music in the world. — Chance the Rapper
I'm just an addict, addicted to music
Maybe it's a habit...I gotta use it. — Rakim
Behind every girl's favorite song there is an untold story.
This is the industry that wants [music], the rap industry. You have to be on deck all the time, but you do not have the time to do the album. It is an energy, it must be present in everyday life. — Young Thug
I have considered rap music stars, and there is one in my new book, Lovers and Players, and there is also a hip-hop music mogul who I think you will like a lot. — Jackie Collins
I have a very varied taste in music. Everything from rap to classical to Latino to Rat Pack to jazz. — Jasper Fforde
Find the tribe that knows your song.
That's the beautiful thing about the saxophone. It can peacefully coexist with just about anything - whether it's hip-hop, rap, rock music, pop, R&B or jazz, there's a place for the saxophone in all of those styles. — Dave Koz
Music just ain't what it used to;
We used to have songs that you could shoplift or boost to. — Jadakiss
Going to radio with a rap record prior to going to the consumer is like having no foreplay with your girlfriend. — Lyor Cohen
Times were changing. Clothes were changing. Morals were changing. We went from romantic loves songs like I used to do to rock 'n roll. Now that has changed to rap. So, there's always a new generation with new music. — Bobby Vinton
Rapping Quotes
When I'm not longer rapping, I want to open up an ice cream parlor and call myself Scoop Dogg. — Snoop Dogg
Everything will eventually come to an end,
So try to savor the moment, cause time flies, don't it?
The beauty of life, you gotta make it last for the better,
Cause nothin' lasts forever. — Nas
What you base your happiness around?
Material, women, and large paper?
That means you inferior, not major. — Nas
Every heart sings a song incomplete, until another heart whispers back.
If the truth is told, the youth can grow
Then learn to survive until they gain control
Nobody says you have to be gangstas, hoes
Read more learn more, change the globe — Nas
The sky is falling, the wind is calling
Stand for something, or die in the morning — Kendrick Lamar
The things that seem insignificant to most people such as note, song, or walk become invaluable trasures kept safe in your heart to cherish forever.
If I told you that a flower bloomed in a dark room, would you trust it? — Kendrick Lamar
We hurt people that love us, love people that hurt us — Kendrick Lamar
Look inside my soul and you can find gold and maybe get rich. Look inside of your soul and you can find out it never exists. — Kendrick Lamar
They say time is money but really it's not
If we ever go broke, then time is all we got
And we can't make that back, no you can't make that back — J. Cole
Rap Artist Quotes
It seems other rap artists are trying to follow a "tradition", or something... I don't consider us [Migos] as weirdos, we just went the other way and didn't follow the rap tradition. We just killed it and made it our tradition. — Quavo
On 139 and Lenox Ave there's a big park, and if you're soft don't go through it when it gets dark — Big L
I get physical, mystical, very artistical...
Giving party people something funky to listen to. — Big Daddy Kane
Those who wish to sing... always find a song.
He was not hip-hop's most gifted emcee. Still, Shakur may be the most influential and compelling rapper of them all, he was more than the sum of his artistic parts. — Michael Eric Dyson
I think I'm pretty regular. I try to keep it pretty regular; I go to sleep early. I don't know what distances me from other rap artists - I haven't met a lot of 'em. — Vince Staples
Be doin artists in like Cain did Abel,
Now they money's gettin stuck to the gum under the table. — GZA
A bird doesn't sing because it has an answer, it sings because it has a song.
I'm caught up in the system where the blind lead the blind
And this artist only speaks on the Signs of the Time.
And I pop pills in Purple Rain to state my pain,
They say I'm just like my father, bold and too cold. — Beanie Sigel
I would challenge more hip hop artists that are rapping about what it`s like to be real and the social ills that we face, if you aren`t backing Bernie Sanders, I have to question your credibility in terms of do you mean the songs you`re writing. — Killer Mike
You could be Top 5 on iTunes, but for people to buy an album, they've got to have a connection with an artist. Every time I bought someone's album, it was about the connection. I was loving everything, from their raps to their style. I wanted to meet them. — Meek Mill
Even though Prince wasn't rapping and it was a whole different era, it shows how artists expressed themselves without saying too much, and that was the real beauty of the art. — Tyga
Good Rap Quotes
I have good pronunciation no matter what language I speak. Maybe it’s because my specialties are rapping and imitating others — G-Dragon
Dear Mama, don't cry, your baby boy's doin' good, Tell the homies I'm in heaven, and they ain't got hoods. Seen a show with Marvin Gaye last night, it had me shook, Drippin' peppermint Schnapps, with Jackie Wilson, and Sam Cooke. — Tupac Shakur
I know you think my life is good 'cause my diamond piece,
But my life been good since I started finding peace. — Nas
You don't love someone for their looks, or their clothes, or for their fancy car, but because they sing a song only you can hear.
Are you tired of lyrical liars, passing fliers,
Wannabe MC's, but really good triers,
Tripping over mic cords, getting you bored,
A total fraud, this kind of thing I can't afford! — KRS-One
It has no color to it. If you can rap good, you can rap good. I look at Mac Miller, who’s one of my homies, and I look at Wiz Khalifa, who’s one of my homies, and I don’t look at Mac different because he’s white. He’s my homie. — Big Sean
Damn it feels good to see people up on it. — Biz Markie
I find pieces of you in every song I listen to .
Drink up cause everyone here is good tonight. Except the niggas that I came wit, they good for life — Drake
Some of Eminem's rap songs kind of have the teenage love songs like the fifties love songs. It's kind of like domestic drama set to music. He is really good storyteller. — Bruce Dickinson
I want a girl with extensions in her hair,
Bamboo earrings, at least two pair,
A Fendi bag and a bad attitude,
That's all I need to get me in a good mood.
She can walk with a switch and talk with street slang,
I love it when a woman ain't scared to do her thing. — LL Cool J
I'm making good money but I ain't rich. Even if I don't wanna rap I still gotta work. Pride don't feed the babies. I'm going to do whatever it takes. As long as my fingers and toes move Im'ma get money. — Sean Price
Hip Hop Song Quotes
I like them brown, yellow, Puerto Rican, or Haitian
Name is Phife Dawg from the Zulu nation. — Phife Dawg
Now here's a funky introduction of how nice I am
Tell your mother, tell your father, send a telegram. — Phife Dawg
Beauty isn't about having a pretty face it's about having a pretty mind, a pretty heart, and a pretty soul. — Unknown Author
We ought, everyday, to hear a song, read a fine poem, and, if possible, to speak a few reasonable words.
Never mind what haters say, ignore them 'til they fade away. — T.I.
Am I the only one who measures time using songs? “Oh it only took me 4 songs to get here! that’s not to long! — Kendrick Lamar
You can take back all the things you give,
But you can't take back the days you live.
Life is to some people who've been on earth
Livin' every single day for what it's worth.
I live life just how I please,
Satisfy one person I know: that's me. — Too $hort
For every situation, there's a suitable line from a song
Everybody talks and everybody listens, and somehow the truth just always comes up missin. — Drake
But I never get attracted to fans cause the eager beaver could be the collapse of a dam — Drake
She live in a mindset that I could never move to — Drake
My opinion is that music is music. As long as you approach doing a remix with truth, I don't see the dance remixes being any different than an hip-hop remix- it's really a different version of the song. — Deborah Cox
Gangsta Rap Quotes
Everybody’s at war with different things…I’m at war with my own heart sometimes. — Tupac Shakur
To me, the 90's signaled the end of glam rock, the beginning of gangsta rap, and hopefully the beginning and end of boy bands. — Shane West
But, Eminem... No, I've loved rap for a long time, especially when it got out of its first period and became this gangsta rap, ya know this heavy rap thing? That's when I started to fall in love with it. I loved the lyrics. I loved the beat. — Alan Vega
I'm not a gangsta rapper. I rap about things that happen to me. I got shot five times. People was trying to kill me. — Tupac Shakur
I bet Eazy E is turning over in his grave,
to see that some of ya'll done made gangsta rap gay — DJ Quik
I believe a lot in gangsta rap, I see in it a lot of positive things as it is. I believe it is only about doing politicization work. Revolutionary change will come from there, it won't come from conscious rap. — Bocafloja
Everything I do is going to be gangsta rap, street based, street oriented... I'm from Gary, Indiana, and everybody's damn near at the poverty level. — Freddie Gibbs
If the KKK was smart enough, they would've created gangsta rap because it's such a caricature of black culture and black masculinity. — Jackson Katz
Now I've got the world swingin' from my nuts
And damn it feels good to be a gangsta! — Willie D
As long as there's a demand for gangsta rap, it will be supplied. — T.I.
Rapper Quotes
I know it seems hard sometimes but remember one thing. Through every dark night, there's a bright day after that. So no matter how hard it get, stick your chest out, keep ya head up.... and handle it. — Tupac Shakur
If you let a person talk long enough you'll hear their true intentions. Listen twice, speak once. — Tupac Shakur
Crazy how you gotta wait until it's dark out to see who really with you. — Drake
People will hurt you. But don't use that as an excuse for your poor choices, use it as motivation to make the right ones. — LeCrae
The way I think I should stay out of trouble is by stayin' busy. With idle time comes a lot of biz, so the more my work load is heavy, I'll have no time to get into any trouble or makin' dis tracks or get into conversation about any other rappers. — Gucci Mane
The less time you spend with Truth, the easier it is to believe lies. — LeCrae
Your whole appearance is a lie and it could never be true.
And if you really loved yourself, then you would try and be you. — Phife Dawg
Never break or fold, that's what it takes to be major. — Kevin Gates
Better to have a small role in God's story than to cast yourself as the lead in your own fiction. — LeCrae
I was born to make mistakes, not to fake perfection — Drake
I don't control life, but I can control how i react to it — Macklemore
I love you like a fat kid love cake. — 50 Cent
There were people who had sampled my voice from speeches when I was an Islamist and made them the chorus of pro-Islamist rap songs who then began talking about me as an apostate. — Maajid Nawaz
Your new CD is a weed plate, nothin' but love songs,
100% pure garbage, just something to break up buds on. — Jadakiss
I never ever ran from the Ku Klux Klan, and I shouldn't have to run from a black man. — Kool Moe Dee
Yeah I want it all, that's why I strive for it — Drake
Jealousy is just love and hate at the same time. — Drake
And if I die before I wake
I pray the lord my soul to take
But please don't cry
Just know that I have made these songs for you. — Kid Cudi
Wayne put me right here, that's who I get the paper wit. I hope that my success never alters our relationship. — Drake
You were put here to protect us.
But who protects us from you? — KRS-One
I do a lot of things hopin I never had to fit in, so tryin to keep up with my progress is like a dead end. — Drake
If you were a star you'd be the one I'm searching for — Drake
Pushing me away so I give her space, awww. Dealing wit a heart that I didn't break. — Drake
We've been living on a high, they've been talking on the low. But it's cool, know you heard it all before. — Drake
My life is like a song and I think I know the words,
And as I start to sing along the whole verse becomes a blur.
So I freestyle improv, make mistakes and evolve,
The obstacles repeat, cause naturally it revolves. — MURS
She could have a Grammy I'd still treat her ass like a nominee. — Drake
Got a light skinned friend, look like Michael Jackson,
Got a dark skinned friend, look like Michael Jackson. — Kanye West
Hope you'll forgive me, never meant wrong. Tried to be patient, but waited too long. But I would've came back.. But I would've came back for you. — Drake
I like rap music. But bragging about being rich to poor people is really offensive. I want to hear a rap song about buying a Cy Twombly painting or dating a museum curator. I want to hear about that kind of rich. — John Waters
Baby I'll never forget none of that. Girl I told you I was comin back. — Drake
I realize I waited too long but please don't move on. — Drake
It's lifestyle music. It's not like some secretary who likes some pop song, but can't name who the band is; whereas a heavy metal fan is into every aspect of it. We'll see if rap holds up to that. Run-DMC seemed to be the Led Zeppelin of rap. — Rob Zombie
I guess every superhero need his theme music. — Kanye West
I've always treated my city like some shoulder pads. — Drake
I'm about to reach my dreams and I aint even got my arms stretched. — Drake
You can't say you're happy either. You don't even smile for me. — Drake
You could name practically any problem in the hood and there'd be a rap song for you. — Jay-Z
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