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“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

“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

“Rap, rap! upon the well-worn stone, How falls the polished hammer! Rap, rap! the measured sound has grown A quick and merry clamor. Now shape the sole! now deftly curl The glassy vamp around it, And bless the while the bright-eyed girl Whose gentle fingers bound it!”

Source: Songs of Labor and Reform From Volume III., the Works of Whittier: Anti-Slavery Poems and Songs of Labor and Reform

“Fifty years ago, teachers said their top discipline problems were talking, chewing gum, making noise, and running in the halls. The current list, by contrast, sounds like a cross between a rap sheet and the seven deadly sins.”

Source: Thinking Out Loud: On the Personal, the Political, the Public and the Private

“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.”

Kind Two Country Three Sound Pay Attention Audience Rocks Beats Historical Western Folks Heavy Rap Pay Attention Metals Cents Cult Heavy Metal Country Western

Author:Al Stewart

“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.”

Made Sound Talent Movement Instruments Rap Rap Music

Author:Max Roach

“What's bad for the culture is wack rappers that get held in high regard like they're some great thing because it's the flavor of the month, but everybody knows they can't rap. I don't think it's hard, even for somebody who's not hip-hop, to know that that's not good. When you put them up against somebody that can really rhyme, you go, "Okay, I get it. This is what it should sound like."”

Thinking Knows Should Hard Culture Sound Months Okay Regard Hip Hop Rap Great Things Hips Hops Rapper Rhyme Flavor Flavor Of The Month

Author:Ice T

“All rappers predominantly sound the same and want you to think their meanest person in the world, and that they're all gangster and all that. My acting allowed me to be playful and crazy, and it helps me tell stories and all that. I think it's a good time; rap needs that kind of stuff.”

Thinking World Want Needs Kind Persons Helping Stories Stuff Sound Acting Crazy Rap Help Me Good Times Rapper Gangsters

Author:Nicki Minaj