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“He was a nuanced mosaic of varied influences, pulling into one body the lush humility of southern rap stalwarts like OutKast and Goodie Mob, the lyrical dexterity of Nas and Eminem, and the straight-ahead tough talk of Pusha T and Killer Mike.”

Rap Kendrick Lamar Musical Influences

Book:The Butterfly Effect: How Kendrick Lamar Ignited the Soul of Black America

Source: The Butterfly Effect: How Kendrick Lamar Ignited the Soul of Black America

“Rap Is More Damaging Than Confederate Statues”

Rap Jaz

Author:Wynton Marsalis

“I'm the bathroom master I'm a real bowl blaster Don't mess with me 'Cause I can mess it up faster With just one flush I can make a toilet gush When my sister cleans it up I just turn her to mush!”

Humor Rap Toilets Toilet Humor Scatological

Book:Stay Out of the Bathroom

Source: Stay Out of the Bathroom

“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.”

Hip Hop Rap Rap Music

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

“Winning every league in my sleep Cause I make my dreams all a reality Feeling like a beast at the peak Cause I finna create my trees of integrity Engineering fights, going melee Legendary like Tiger JK Grab another pint on a payday Mayday! Mayday! Dance in my heyday!”

Success Rap Heyday Lyric Skz Stray Kids 3racha

Author:3RACHA

“Y buena suerte a cualquiera que quiera entender las bandas callejeras, el rap o cualquier cosa de la era Reagan o de este libro sin primero reconocer que el eje principal es el afán de ser una estrella.”

Rap Música Subjetividad

Author:David Foster Wallace y Mark Costello

“Quando mi sono ritrovata con le spalle al muro, mi sono girata e ho cominciato a scriverci sopra.”

Rap Trap Boscoreale Scrivere Sui Muri Spalle Al Muro Trap Italiano

Book:Inside The Outsider

Source: Inside The Outsider

“Das Auswählen junger Frauen scheint genreunabhängig – im Rap, aber auch im Pop oder Rock – so gängig zu sein, dass es in der Branche feststehende Begriffe dafür gibt.”

Rap Rock Pop Gewalt Konzert Musikbranche

Book:Row Zero: Gewalt und Machtmissbrauch in der Musikindustrie

Source: Row Zero: Gewalt und Machtmissbrauch in der Musikindustrie

“Cuz even a gangsta rapper can find redemption For the sins committed before revelation.”

Source: Got the Flow: The Hip-Hop Diary of a Young Rapper

“Music is reflection of self We just explain it, and then we get our checks in the mail It's fucked up, ain't it? How we can come from practically nothin To bein able to have any f*ckin thing that we wanted That's why we sing for these kids who don't have a thing Except for a dream and a f*ckin rap magazine Who post pin-up pictures on they walls all day long Idolize they favorite rappers and know all they songs Or for anyone who's ever been through shit in they lives So they sit and they cry, at night, wishin they'd die Til they throw on a rap record and they sit and they vibe We're nothin to you, but we're the f*ckin sh*t in they eyes That's why we seize the moment Try to freeze it and own it, squeeze it and hold it Cause we consider these minutes golden And maybe they'll admit it when we're gone Just let our spirits live on Through our lyrics that you hear in our songs, and we can…”

Rap Lyrics Sing Lyrics In A Song Music Lyrics Eminem

Author:Eminem

“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.”

Real Whole Problem Care Talking Identity Music Is Gun Raised Rap Sexism Sympathy Real Things Rap Music

Author:Samantha Morton

“Hip-hop was my first audience - I would rap in the mirror, walk down the street and listen to my Walkman.”

Firsts Walks Audience Streets Mirrors Hip Hop Rap Hips Hops

Author:Derek Luke

“A lot of the music, and especially rap, I don't understand.”

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Author:Patti Page

“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.”

Long Made Decision Long Time Rap Grades Fourth Rap Music Fourth Grade

Author:Chance the Rapper

“Music can kind of make you one-dimensional. People see what's on the surface and what you rap about, and they make their decision on who you are from there.”

People Kind Decision Who You Are Rap Surface

Author:Chance the Rapper

“My come-out record, '10 Day,' was the thing people were supposed to hear and figure out 'he's good' or 'he's not good.' 'Acid Rap' is the comeback tape, and it asks way bigger and better questions than, 'Is he good at rapping?”

People Way Asks Records Figures Bigger Rap Tape Acid Comeback Bigger And Better

Author:Chance the Rapper

“The weird thing about rap is that you don't get compared in the same way that athletes do, even though it's probably the most competitive sport in music. In basketball, they look at a player and say: 'This guy was the best in his prime at this sport.' But in rap it's not until you're dead or retired that people think about it like that.”

People Thinking Way Looks Guy Sports Player Basketball Athlete Rap Prime This Guy Retired Weird Things Competitive Sports

Author:Chance the Rapper

“The whole point of 'Acid Rap' was just to ask people a question: does the music business side of this dictate what type of project this is? If it's all original music and it's got this much emotion around it and it connects this way with this many people, is it a mixtape? What's an 'album' these days, anyways?”

People Ifs Way Doe Whole Asks Sides Emotion Type Projects Originals Albums Rap These Days Acid Music Business Mixtapes Original Music

Author:Chance the Rapper

“I haven't done rap... I can't do that too well.”

Wells I Can Done Havens Rap

Author:Dee Dee Ramone

“Billboard called my solo album, 'Standing In The Spotlight,' a great party album and even said that my raps put the Beastie Boys to shame.”

Said Party Boys Standing Shame Albums Rap Solo Spotlight Billboards Great Party

Author:Dee Dee Ramone

“I loved rap, especially in the early days. But I wasn't trying to shove it down anybody's throats.”

Trying Rap Throat

Author:Dee Dee Ramone

“When I got into rap I didn't exactly win any popularity contests. I called myself Dee Dee King, after B.B. King, to the total dismay of my fellow Ramones.”

Winning Kings Fellows Rap Popularity Contests Dismay Ramones Popularity Contest

Author:Dee Dee Ramone

“I couldn't do rap. I was trying. I don't know how. I'm not good enough to know.”

Knows Trying Enough Know How Rap Good Enough Not Good Enough

Author:Dee Dee Ramone

“And to turn it into rap wasn't too difficult besides just rhymin' the last words of each line.”

Lasts Turns Difficult Lines Rap Last Words

Author:Slick Rick

“Single guys get a bad rap.”

Guy Rap Single Guy

Author:David Spade

“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.”

Want Years Lasts Stuff Sound Interesting Beats Rap Bites Touring Really Interesting Sound Bites Good 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.”

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Author:Alan Vega

“That's what my music... I'm working on a solo record right now, it's gonna be more hip-hop than anything, like electronic hip-hop, futuristic hip-hop. I'm probably gonna be rapping on it.”

Records Right Now Hip Hop Rap Hips Hops Solo Futuristic

Author:Alan Vega

“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.”

Ends Boys Rocks Band Rap Hopefully Beginnings And Ends Gangsta Glam Boy Bands Gangsta Rap Glam Rock

Author:Shane West

“I've always been noted for being original and doing different thing. So for me to hop on the train that's going on would be - shoot, if I wanted to hop on the train, I might as well have hopped on gangsta rap back when it was popular and tried to do that.”

Ifs Wells Different Might Would Be Wanted Originals Train Rap Hops Different Things Back When Gangsta Being Original Gangsta Rap

Author:Will Ferrell

“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.”

Ifs Feels Song Challenges Pieces Beats Rap Not Afraid Feels Right Challenging Myself

Author:Will Ferrell

“Well I'm not just gon' go and do rap songs. I wanna touch, and maybe help, and see what I can do in these areas.' As I start looking around me, looking at things in ways that I can become helpful, starting at the first thing, water. Something as simple as water.”

Way Firsts Wells I Can Helping Song Water Can Do Simple Areas Starting Rap Helpful Rap Song

Author:Jay-Z

“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.”

Space Party Beats Rap Be You Rhyme

Author:Damian Marley

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

Made Profit Rap Making Money

Author:Meek Mill

“I don't think I would change really anything about rap. Rap don't have no limits to it, and I like it like that.”

Thinking Limits Rap

Author:Meek Mill

“I've been a Hip-Hop head forever. So when it turned out that we were gonna start getting celebrity guests for every show, I wanted rap guys from the get-go.”

Shows Wanted Guy Forever Hip Hop Rap Hips Hops Guests

Author:Andy Milonakis

“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.”

Trying Fun Party Missing Rap Rap Music

Author:Flavor Flav

“Around the middle of last year I started listening to a lot of rap, like Nicki Minaj and Drake... They all sing about such opulence, stuff that just didn’t relate to me - or anyone that I knew. I began thinking, “How are we listening to this? It’s completely irrelevant.””

Thinking Years Lasts Stuff Middle Listening Rap Relate Last Year Irrelevant Opulence

Author:Lorde

“I'm rapping in English but in an African way. I'm not trying to sound like an American.”

Way Trying Sound Rap

Author:Emmanuel Jal

“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

“I came into the rap game in 1992; my life was changing, but my group wasn't successful; I also saw the biggest rappers in the world die all of a sudden in the ensuing years, so it was a matter of conquering yourself before you can conquer the world.”

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Author:Ja Rule

“Rap actually took root in the Negro community, and then in the Hispanic community, long before it impacted on the larger American community as a whole.”

Long Whole Community Roots Rap Hispanic

Author:Archie Shepp

“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.”

Values Strong Elements Beats Rap Poetry Is Very Strong Implications Rap Music

Author:Archie Shepp

“I was a metalhead and then I was into the rap and then I was a metalhead again.”

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Author:Jason Mewes

“The conservative media game was neatly summarized by Matt Labash, a former senior writer for The Weekly Standard, in a 2003 interview on the website journalismjobs.com. Labash explained: 'The conservative media likes to rap the liberal media on the knuckles for not being objective. We've created this cottage industry in which it pays to be un-objective. It's a great way to have your cake and eat it too. Criticize other people for not being objective. Be as subjective as you want. It's a great little racket.'”

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

Shows Radio Rap Rip Satellites Sirius

Author:Rip Taylor

“Every day can't be the best day Do what you can right now, don't hesitate That's why we try to make love and get paid Take the bad with the good, now let's play”

Trying Play Right Now Paid Rap Being The Best Making Love

Author:Slug

“I'm pain in the spoken form; This new strain came from where hope is gone.”

Pain Form Gone Hip Hop Rap Strain

Author:Ka

“Took a vow to protect and serve, All you do is disrespect and murder. I ask that you not hurt my kids; This is where you work...this is where I live.”

Kids Asks Hurt Protect Murder Hip Hop Rap Vow Disrespect Protect And Serve

Author:Ka

“Once you find your lane, you can't cruise; When you define the game, you can't lose.”

Games Loses Hip Hop Rap Lanes Cruise

Author:Ka

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