“A lot of the stuff I've accumulated over the last few years of touring I thought was really interesting. Like sounds, sound bites, and beats even, but they weren't good dance beats they weren't ones anyone would want to rap over or anything.” WantYearsLastsStuffSoundInterestingBeatsRapBitesTouringReally InterestingSound BitesGood Dance Author:Kid Koala
“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.” KnowsFirstsLongFallPeriodsLong TimeBeatsFalling In LoveHeavyRapGangstaGangsta Rap Author:Alan Vega
“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.” IfsFeelsSongChallengesPiecesBeatsRapNot AfraidFeels RightChallenging Myself Author:Will Ferrell
“Toasting is basically what you call rapping. It came off of playing the beats at the parties, however it be. You find a space in the beat, and you have somebody live just basically saying rhymes over the beat.” SpacePartyBeatsRapBe YouRhyme Author:Damian Marley
“In rap music, even though the element of poetry is very strong, so is the element of the drum, the implication of the dance. Without the beat, its commercial value would certainly be more tenuous.” ValuesStrongElementsBeatsRapPoetry IsVery StrongImplicationsRap Music Author:Archie Shepp
“Аfter all the beats and rhymes, I felt like everybody around me was rapping and so I was like.” FeltBeatsRapRhyme Author:Jeremih
“People in college, if you're getting recognized for getting good grades, you're finally famous. If you get recognized for playing the drums, if you're being recognized for making good ass beats, good ass raps, good ass interviews like this one, you're finally famous.” PeopleIfsCollegeBeatsRapAssGradesGood Grades Author:Big Sean
“I love when rappers have a off-beat, very abstract timing, and he certainly did.And any rapper who really approaches rapping with the art form of songwriting melodically - I know a bunch of rappers who actually go in before they write the lyrics and come up with the melody. And you can hear and feel that difference so much when that's the case.” KnowsFeelsWritingArtFormDifferencesCasesApproachBeatsCome UpRapBunchAbstractMelodySongwritingRapperTiming Author:Solange Knowles
“It's natural. I freestyle, meaning that I just rap. I might put words on paper, but I just put a beat on my rap, and go off the top of my head. It's something I've been able to do for a long time.” LongMightAbleNaturalPaperLong TimeBeatsRapFreestyleWords On Paper Author:Snoop Dogg
“Only two to three per cent of an audience is interested in words and pays attention to lyrics; most of the rest of it is about image or the beat or the sound, or else it's a tribal thing - country & western, rap, heavy metal, with historical folk rock off in some kind of cult.” KindTwoCountryThreeSoundPayAttentionAudienceRocksBeatsHistoricalWesternFolksHeavyRapPay AttentionMetalsCentsCultHeavy MetalCountry Western Author:Al Stewart
“I've got a lot of songs about having fun and partying, but it's a lot of work. Sometimes, I make 50 songs and pick out the best 10. I've been in the studio all day, all night, making the beat, writing the raps.” WritingSometimesNightSongFunPartyBeatsPicksStudiosRapHaving FunAll Night Author:Juicy J
“I love doing the music. I love programming beats and kind of working on the music as much, if not more, than the actual rapping.” IfsKindBeatsRapProgramming Author:Joaquin Phoenix
“I like producing beats, and I like rapping, too. I have a program for the PC, and I can hook my keyboard to it.” I CanBeatsProgramRapHookKeyboards Author:Jamie Waylett
“What's crazy to me is that people now assume I'm behind [hip-hop] tracks that other people are putting out. They're just sitting on the edge of their chair waiting for me to put out [rap beats]. But it's not going to happen. I've graduated from that.” PeopleHappensWaitingBehindsCrazyBeatsSittingAssumingEdgesTrackHip HopRapHipsChairsHopsSitting On The Edge Author:AraabMuzik
“It's not like I just take the beat, rap on it and take it for what it is, I always have the producer send it to me, loop the track out, move some stuff around.” MovingStuffBeatsTrackRapProducersLoops Author:Kid Ink
“I have done whole projects with Scoop Deville, I like to basically work with a single producer. I always just worked on a bunch of songs, and then put them together, whether it was an EP or another project. None of them were mixtapes where I was rapping over other peoples beats.” DoneWholeTogetherSongProjectsBeatsRapBunchProducersMixtapes Author:Young De
“I have a few different managers, and one of them hit me up today and was like 'I'm going to set you up with these guys doing beats and such...' I was like cool, as long as I can do what I do. Just because kids are going like this now, I'm not going to do that because I am not 18 years old. I'm not going to rap like I'm in grade three because it's popular. I'm just not going to do that. It's not because I'm being stubborn, and I definitely not that guy that is getting older and does not understand the younger generation.” YearsLongDoeI CanDifferentKidsTodayGuyThreeCan DoGenerationsBeatsRapManagersGradesStubbornGetting OldGetting OlderThat GuyYounger GenerationBeing Stubborn Author:Shane Bunting
“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.” TryingMadeRecordsFoolBeatsGoldSouthRapExperimentsDirtyConsistentRapperVocalDance MusicMixtapes Author:A-Trak
“Rap is rock 'n' roll. Rock is when you push the buttons in the system; when you say, I'm not going along with what you're saying. That's rock, whether it's done with guitars, or it's done with just beats.” DoneRocksBeatsGuitarRapRock N RollButtons Author:Ice T
“Sometimes I'll have a whole song done without having a beat - I'll just rap on an instrumental tempo and recreate a whole new song just around the lyrics.” SometimesDoneWholeSongBeatsRapTempoNew Songs Author:Tyga
“I like somebody I can consider edgy, because, I also find that when people see me; the first thing they might think about me, musically, is that I rap or make beats, in the sense of trap or hip-hop or whatever, and when they hear what I actually create, they'll often be like, 'Wait a minute, I wasn't expecting this'.” PeopleThinkingFirstsI CanMightWaitingMinutesBeatsHip HopRapHipsHopsExpectingTrapsOften IsEdgy Author:Jlin
“Me rapping over other people's beats doesn't mean as much as when Lil Wayne does it - no matter how hard I'm going in.” PeopleMeanDoeMatterHardBeatsRapWayne Author:Donnis
“When you're a rapper, just a rapper, you have to kind of settle for whatever comes your way - if a beat is hot, you wanna rap on it, period.” IfsWayKindPeriodsBeatsHotRapSettlingRapper Author:J. Cole
“What came first I would say was the producing. I was a huge fan of Pharrell Williams and around that era, when I was in high school, the producers started getting recognition for all the dope beats: Dr. Dre, Timbaland, and all these dope producers.I also started rapping. I wanted to be Eminem, and that's why I still have those qualities in my music, and that's why I'm able to be so versatile - sing, rap whatever. But really my number one thing is singing.” FirstsStillsAbleWantedSchoolNumbersQualityOne ThingFansHugeBeatsSingingHigh SchoolRapProducersRecognitionErasDrsDopeVersatileDr Dre Author:Kevin McCall