Rap Quotes: top 100 famous quotes about Rap

Rap Quotes & Sayings

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The future is born, put the past in a casket — Lil' Wayne

Time is money, every moment is costly,
So I ration emotion, 'cause existence exhausts me. — Slug

I do like alternative rock and rap, but as far as inspirational, then I go full-on orchestra. It fills up your entire being. — Osric Chau

It started back in '79,
My whole darn future was on the line.
I created a brand new sensation
Through my mind and the whole darn nation ... — Sylvia Robinson

I am looking to get into the grime rap U.K. scene. — Tom Felton

I would never challenge any rapper to a rap-off. It's weird, I'm not that type of rapper. — Donald Glover

Rap is just a movement within the larger culture of hip-hop. — Cornel West

I gotta learn to rap. — Scott Disick

This one's for you, and I truly hope you hear me,
Through all your travels, I'm wishing you a peaceful journey. — Heavy D

Science only answers 'How?'
Religion only answers 'Why?'
The two combined is the true design,
So respect to God cause He drew the lines. — Amir Mohamed

I feel like when I reach my 500-million-dollar goal, then no other woman in rap will ever feel like they can't do what these men have done — Nicki Minaj

The only good thing about the 1980s was that they invented rap, but rap didn't get good until 1992, so what does that say about the 1980s. — Drew

I'm a singer and a writer first. I started to rap by accident, being playful. — Kesha

Our freedom of speech is freedom or death,
We got to fight the powers that be! — Chuck D

I haven't done rap ... I can't do that too well. — Dee Dee Ramone

This is just rap. I'm not trying to make people think I'm some sort of scientific wizard or inspirational poet. — Action Bronson

In the middle of Little Italy little did we know that we riddled some middleman who didn't do diddily — Big Pun

Dead Prez is playing on the car's stereo, telling me that it's bigger than Hip-Hop, but I beg to differ. — Kris Kidd

I'm rap's vigilante. I'm out for justice. — Action Bronson

Couldn't afford a car so he named his daughter Alexis — Kanye West

Violence is as American as cherry pie. - RAP (HUBERT GEROLD) BROWN — J.D. Robb

Yo, you 14-carat gold slum computer wizard,
Tappin' inside my rap vein causes blizzards! — Ghostface Killah

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

I'll let a mystery gas out of my blistery ass
Just to disrupt the misery of history class. — MC Paul Barman

I'm really a singer, so I love songs and I love singing. I like rap music, but I didn't grow up freestyling. — Billy Idol

No matter what the name, we're all the same pieces in one big chess game. — Chuck D

There's two elements to rap: having the thoughts, and then being a great rapper. — Drake

Rollin' down the street, smokin' indo, sippin' on gin an juice
Lay back with my mind on my money and my money on my mind. — Snoop Dogg

And understand: class differences will not save you. — H. Rap Brown

It don't gotta be Mother's Day, or your birthday, for me to just call and say
Hey Mama — Kanye West

Watch out for the medallion, my diamonds are reckless,
Feels like a midget is hangin from my necklace! — Ludacris

You could either ignore this advice, or take it from me:
Be too nice, and people take you for a dummy. — Daniel Dumile

An MC is somebody who can control the crowd. An MC is a master of ceremonies so not only can you say your rap, you can rock the party. — Ice-T

My limo driver's white, my attorney black ...
'Show me some love' like I'm Bernie Mac. — Masta Ace

The U.S government hates rap music — Chris Rock

Somehow the rap game remind me of the crack game — Nas

The government recognized immediately that Rap music has enormous revolutionary potential and politicians immediately came together to end it. — Assata Shakur

You need to sweat yourself. Don't sweat nobody else. — Busta Rhymes

The greats weren't great because at birth they could paint
The greats were great because they paint a lot — Macklemore

Rap is only one end of a whole spectrum of verbal play and virtuosity. Rap is geared for aural pleasure. — Rita Dove

Conquer land like Napoleon, military bomb fest
We want sanitary food, planetary conquest — U-God

Next thing you know, the hoe starts to ill,
She says "I love you, Harold" and your name is Will! — Slick Rick

We got to mediate our greedy levels,
Cause the lust of currency can have us sleepin with the devil. — Q-Tip

If rhyme is a crime, my mic is my co-defendant. — Cormega

A wise man sees failure as progress.
A fool divorces his knowledge and misses the logic,
And loses his soul in the process. — Canibus

Rap comes from the oral tradition. The oral tradition gives voice to those who would've otherwise been voiceless. — Benjamin Zephaniah

One of the first albums that I remember, rap albums I remember really listening to, was LL Cool J 'Mama Said Knock You Out.' — Damian Marley

I have good pronunciation no matter what language I speak. Maybe it's because my specialties are rapping and imitating others — G-Dragon

Lessons cut short to prep for tests that only test how well you prep.
... Man, no wonder why the score's a mess. — J-Live

You got to have style, and learn to be original. — KRS-One

RZA is one of the most unique individuals and rap artists that I have worked with. — El DeBarge

I creep like a thief, no doubt the man's swift,
I'm more magnificent than Lee Van Cleef — Diamond D

Reality does get a bad rap. But I'm not concerned about it 'cause I know who I am. They can edit it, but you are in charge of what you do. — Niecy Nash

Tell ya mama to stop flirtin' boy, I'm not a good step-pop.
I interrupt your little session ... and wreck shop. — Bumpy Knuckles

I think Bhutanese food - long dissed by every food writer out there - has gotten a bum rap. — Hanya Yanagihara

Deja vu, tell you what I'm gonna do,
When they reminisce over you, my God. — C.L. Smooth

God works in different ways and it shows ...
And everybody knows, love comes and goes. — Ed O.G.

Flows that go against the grain with a story so compellin'
I should mind The People's Court, snatch the mic from Doug Llewellyn — Tash

We headed to hell for heaven sakes, well Imma levitate ... make the devil wait. — Kanye West

My stepfather used to run hotels all around the world. — DJ Rap

Weird like Murdock,
Thinkin' like Hannibal,
Man like Face,
But I'm wild like B.A. — Styles P

The motivation to me is to make money and not be dependent upon the shallow pool called the entertainment world or the rap world or the hip-hop world. — Killer Mike

Let me tell you something. Boring women get a bad rap. There's a lot to be said for boring women. — Jerry Stahl

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. — Joaquin Phoenix

I've been college, but to be truthfully frank, weed is knowledge because it makes me think — Keith Murray

The bar is so low in rap - mediocrity is king! — Jay Electronica

A flower that grow in the ghetto know more about survival than the one from fresh meadows. — Talib Kweli

And Sunday's the one day I rest, give thanks, and bless. — Special Ed

I am to hip-hop what Obama is to politics — Common

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. — Flavor Flav

See, it's no in between: you're either free or you're a slave. — H. Rap Brown

It was the beauty that caught me and held my soul hostage ...
Remember those days? Had you smellin' my boxers. — Ghostface Killah

We just wanted to get as far away from the rap-rock scene as possible, because its been done and other bands do it better than us anyway. — Adam Rich

Set me up, wet me up, niggas stuck me up ...
Heard the guns bust, but you tricks never shut me up. — Tupac Shakur

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

I cut off my ears before i hear your advice and vice versa — Kendrick Lamar

Well I'm a sire, I set the microphone on fire,
Rap styles vary, and carry like Mariah — Inspectah Deck

The radio is just a stereo like a house ain't a home. — Jay Electronica

Don't ask for a cig' - I'm so self-centered, I won't even share this cancer. — Joe Budden

Beef is best served like steak:
Well done, get a gun in ya face. — Pusha T

These palm trees like my old homeboys, hella shady — Chamillionaire

We was sneakin' in and it was general admission,
Now we ownin' the arena and decidin' who allowed in it. — Curren$y

When I hit the skins they all say, 'Damn Kane ...
You knock out the Bush like a presidential campaign!' — Big Daddy Kane

Run DMC brought us out of that underground-only feel. They brought rap above ground and made it respectable as an art form to mainstream music. — Ice Cube

He doesn't even suit ya, and he's surely not your size,
I'm surprised that you slept on a heart that's worldwide. — Slimkid3

For every single dark night there is a brighter day. — Tupac Shakur

Nobody's going to tell me to rap in an American accent. — Estelle

I think America has a bad rap right now ... and hopefully Obama will change that. — Joan Cusack

Wanna move out the hood and defeat that cancer
I ask how she stay on her feet like dancers
How she keep on adding paint to a life-size canvas. — Lil B

Park hill staten island seal, rock the reel to reel we high hills deep — Cappadonna

On a park bench on 12th street, my whole crew's famous, you try bust your gat and keep it rel but you nameless — Prodigy

Jay-Z and Kanye West are to authentic rap culture what diseased rates were to 14th century Europeans — Dean Cavanagh

The rap game has to save itself. Everybody's saving it. People like Lil Wayne is saving it. He's bringing energy to it. — Andre Benjamin

I do lots of weird voices and I kind of act out my raps. That's something that's always been in me. — Nicki Minaj

When Elton John sang a duet with the white rapper Eminem on a Grammy telecast, rap went mainstream. Massive parental headaches followed. — Bill O'Reilly

I wish I could end every rap song I didn't like with a buzzer. — Drew Carey

I'm not really into rap. — Magnus Carlsen

I don't like thugs, I don't like nerds,
I don't like myself and I hate bein' disturbed. — Sean Price

You're nobody 'til somebody kills you. — The Notorious B.I.G.

They cannot divide us by saying that you're middle class or you're lower class. — H. Rap Brown