Best Rap Music Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings

“This guy! I plead the fifth. This guy is nuts.” - Eminem “Dope questions, man. Very insightful, very thoughtful.” - Guru (Gang Starr) “You like a Psychiatrist or some shit? This shit is just coming out but go ahead.” - Mary J. Blige “Definitely a real interview! Digging deep up in there, man. Not afraid to ask questions!” - K-Ci Hailey (Jodeci) “The Wizard asked me for a copy of your magazine.” - Guy-Manuel de Homem-Christo (Daft Punk) “You didn’t wear your glasses and you haven’t carried your hearing aid. What else is wrong with you?” - Bushwick Bill “Peace and blessing, Brother Harris. Thank you for inspiring my words. Keep ‘yo balance.” - Erykah Badu “Can I see that pen?” - Bobby Brown “What else do you want to know? Talk to me.” - Aaliyah”

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Author:Harris Rosen

“Rap was always a pipe dream for me, but rap was all I had. Because really, what was I going to do with my life? I had a young daughter. Kim and I were always either getting evicted or our house was getting shot up or robbed.”

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Book:The Way I Am

Source: The Way I Am

“Rap music is the newspaper of black people.”

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Book:Other People's Property: A Shadow History of Hip-Hop in White America

Source: Other People's Property: A Shadow History of Hip-Hop in White America

“We listen to rap lyrics, but few study the history. One of the most significant contributions of hip hop. It offers a profound social commentary on the black experience. This is an aspect of the music that is overlooked because most people choose to pay more attention to “the hook” (the catchy repetitive phrase) than the complete body of work. In doing so, the listener misses the message: the essence of the music, the breakdown of the bars. That’s tantamount to someone who is able to quote scripture, but has never read the bible.”

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Book:The Other 99 T.Y.M.E.S: Train Your Mind to Enjoy Serenity

Source: The Other 99 T.Y.M.E.S: Train Your Mind to Enjoy Serenity

“I believe hip hop’s characteristic beliefs as a whole are misunderstood, underappreciated and highly underestimated.”

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Book:The Other 99 T.Y.M.E.S: Train Your Mind to Enjoy Serenity

Source: The Other 99 T.Y.M.E.S: Train Your Mind to Enjoy Serenity

“As millions use social media as a primary source of information, the risk of falling victim to being misinformed is high. Readers who quickly scan newsfeeds tend to only read (and share information about) a headline: focusing on “the hook.” Whether due to complacency or lack of time, few explore the content. This allows bogus media outlets to descend on the unsuspecting (and unprepared) seekers of instant information, creating false stories with dazzling one-liners, secure in the knowledge that there will be little effort to pursue confirmation or research an entire story.”

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Book:The Other 99 T.Y.M.E.S: Train Your Mind to Enjoy Serenity

Source: The Other 99 T.Y.M.E.S: Train Your Mind to Enjoy Serenity

“There is genuine Hip Hop; a message that connects, rocks a crowd, and motivates a people and then there is what is left... instead of Hip Hop we have Hip replacement.”

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Author:Johnnie Dent Jr.

“Now let me ask you all a question, what's more pathetic and sad to you? A bunch of poor black people who listen to rich black rappers rapping about their wealth, or a bunch of poor white people who listen to rich white country singers singing songs about how much they love being broke rednecks?”

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Author:T.J. Kirk

“Whether or not you agreed with the group’s incendiary style, one thing most people will agree on: N.W.A had a deep, trans-formative and lasting effect on hip hop ideology.”

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Book:The Other 99 T.Y.M.E.S: Train Your Mind to Enjoy Serenity

Source: The Other 99 T.Y.M.E.S: Train Your Mind to Enjoy Serenity

“If an artist constructs profanity in rap music with the use of his or her own creative lyrics, it should inform or entertain audiences that contains a certain meaning related to a public event or personal experience.”

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Author:Saaif Alam

“Absolutely None of Todays Favorite Music Played Here”

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Author:Kevin Kolenda

“When you've been raised in care, rap music isn't just about guns and sexism. They're talking about real things you can hang on to, problems of identity that you have sympathy with. It's not just about the music, with rap: when I was in care, it meant a whole lot more than that.”

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Author:Samantha Morton

“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.”

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Author:Chance the Rapper

“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.”

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Author:Flavor Flav

“The art of cartooning is vulgarity. The only reason for cartooning to exist is to be on the edge. If you only take apart what they allow you to take apart, you're Disney. Cartooning is a low-class, for-the-public art, just like graffiti art and rap music. Vulgar but believable, that's the line I kept walking.”

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Author:Ralph Bakshi

“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.”

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Author:Archie Shepp

“With rap music, because it's all so on the street, you get treated like a street cat: "All right, you've been eatin' enough, you're fat, get out of the way now and let somebody else come by."”

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Author:Nas

“I just appreciate what Andre 3000 has done musically - just the bravery. I think Andre 3000 may be one of the bravest artists in rap music.”

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Author:Nas

“When I make the music that I make, when it comes to reggae music, I engulf the whole spirit of it all. It's just like when I do rap music or whatever style of music I do, I have to engulf the character I do and bring that to life.”

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Author:Snoop Dogg

“I think you gotta always do things that keep you excited in an [rap music] industry that's so bullshit. When you know that you have so much energy and so much to give, it would be a shame if the facilitators of that aren't enthusiastic about you doing it, because you've been doing it for so long. So you just gotta figure out ways in this insane business to keep it fresh.”

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Author:Nas

“If you really think back to the culture or just black America before rap music took off, New York could have been Paris.”

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Author:Ice Cube

“I think my fans respect me for bein' as truthful and honest as you can be and still be Rap music and not be opinion music. It's still Rap, its still style, flavor, flair, and people just kind of like how I present myself and the things that I do.”

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Author:Ice Cube

“I think rap music is the sole reason for a lot of black acceptance in pop culture; because the music is very popular, it gets our image out in other ways than in movies.”

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Author:Ice Cube

“If it's a band I like, I just hope they will survive it all. And I'll admit that if it's crap music, I hope they won't and it'll go away. Simply because there are too many great bands who should be heard in their place.”

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Author:Eddie Vedder

“I think rap music is brought up, gangster rap in particular, as well as video games, every other thing they try to hang the ills of society on as a scapegoat.”

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Author:Ice Cube

“Ego is my career. Rap music is all ego.”

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Author:Earl Sweatshirt

“One out of three black men are in the criminal justice system in some form. Their despair is beginning to resonate through the entire culture; that is why suburban children want rap music.”

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Author:Robert Bly

“They had all this talent, and they had no instruments. So they started rap music. They rhymed on their own. They made their own sounds and their own movements.”

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Author:Max Roach

“It's not that you don't make any money doing conscious rap music. You make a lot of money doing this, but if you're greedy and you're not satisfied with $500,000 a year, and you want $2 million a year, then you will suffer as a conscious rap artist.”

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Author:KRS-One

“If I were to critique myself - step out of KRS objectively and look at him - I would say that KRS has introduced the concept of being hip-hop, not just doing it. The concept of rap as something we do, while hip-hop is something we live. The concept of living a culture. Don't just look at hip-hop as rap music, see it as a culture.”

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Author:KRS-One

“I never really thought I was going to be a singer, honestly. I never listened to singers; I always listened to rap music.”

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Author:Fetty Wap

“Rap music came along and saved my life. I started to tell the stories of the streets and that was my way out.”

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Author:Ice T

“They sought out rap music to attack, but you don't hear that anymore because it made too much money. They use Che Guevara to sell soft drinks. If something comes out that is radical and it's successful, then it's no longer radical. It's co-opted.”

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Author:John Landis

“The government recognized immediately that Rap music has enormous revolutionary potential and politicians immediately came together to end it.”

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Author:Assata Shakur

“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.”

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Author:Juicy J

“I have tried... believe me, I have tried to like rap music. It makes me feel so very, very old. I have tried to get home with the downies.”

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Author:Dylan Moran

“There are poor white people who hear rap music and feel it is about them, because it is. That's why you have an Eminem and a Bubba Sparxxx and rappers like that.”

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Author:Russell Simmons

“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.”

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Author:Graham Nash

“You never want to look like an old fart doing young rap music.”

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Author:DJ Quik

“I grew up in the Bronx. I'm into rap music.”

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Author:Abel Ferrara

“They don't want to see rap music. They don't want to see the Beastie Boys. They don't care what we're doing. They want one thing and one thing only: that's to see Madonna come on stage.”

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Author:Ad-Rock

“No, I can't do rap music...”

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Author:Dolly Parton

“I don't have any sympathy for the subject matter, [but] I have great respect for rap artists. In fact, not for the rap artists, but the people who make the music over which they rap. Rap music - the music itself is incredible - but [the people that make the music] are hardly ever credited.”

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Author:Stewart Copeland

“There has been an effect of business rap on the output of today's rap music. But I don't think that's the modern day rapper's fault.”

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Author:M.I.A.

“A lot of people heard about gin and juice for the first time from Snoop Dogg, but it was nothing new in rap music, and it was nothing new in the black community.”

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Author:Boots Riley

“I'm not going to try to be too young because at the end of the day, I'm not 20 anymore. I don't want to sound corny or look corny doing young things. All the stuff that the kids are doing, that's not my place. I believe that everyone followed me back then, they're still here. That's who I'm trying to talk to and relate to. All the trap music and all of that, it's great but I can't do that. I'm going to stay vintage Ginuwine and stay at the place that got me here. That's what people want.”

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Author:Ginuwine

“My mom, she got taken away from me when I was 14 years old. She is incarcerated. My sister was incarcerated. I was homeless. When my mom went away when I was 14... I was forced to live with my aunt. My aunt, she doesn't like rap music. She thinks rap music is the devil's music. Basically she said, "Yo, if you are going to do music you can't do it in my house."”

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Author:Sean Kingston

“As a late teenager, the punk movement pushed me further. In particular, the Clash, which happened to leak through the time of disco, showed me that there was this cross-cultural sound that could cut across genres and audiences. Like punk was to disco, rap music was a rebellion against R&B, which had adopted disco and made it worse.”

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Author:Chuck D

“We were coming out of the black community with this thing called rap music, which was basically black men yelling at the top of their lungs about what we liked and what we didn't like. It was disturbing to the status quo. It really shook things up. And those in power didn't know what to make of us, but they knew that we had to be silenced, stopped in any way from expressing our outrage.”

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Author:Chuck D

“Public Enemy started out as a benchmark in rap music in the mid-1980s. We felt there was a need to actually progress the music and say something because we were slightly older than the demographic of rap artists at the time. It was a time of heightened rightwing politics, so the climate dictated the direction of the group.”

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Author:Chuck D

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