Rap Quotes

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.

If I could rap, that would be a sensation, but I can't, you see, I'm just a Caucasian.

Rap is a gimmick, but I'm for the hip-hop, the culture.

I don't have to say 'Rap it up' every two seconds, or 'Don't do drugs' every two seconds. They know they're not supposed to use drugs, and they know they're supposed to put a condom on.

A lot of the younger kids now can rap, but they're scared of the crowd. Mastery of that stage is an MC. I don't know if you've seen any great MCs on stage but when you do it's like wow, this is more than the words to rhymes.

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.

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.

You have to come in on a professional level to make it, otherwise you just can't get into rap.

It's bad poetry executed by people that can't sing. That's my definition of Rap.

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

Rap is poetry set to music. But to me it's like a jackhammer.

They that will not be counseled, cannot be helped. If you do not hear reason she will rap you on the knuckles.

I don't have to put out another rap record. I can do it at my casual pace.

I want to keep making records as long as I can, but I don't know how long you can be taken seriously in rap.

If you stay in one place, you can only rap about one thing because that's all you know.

While also, importantly, not wanting to dumb it down or pretend the days of 'difficult' poetry are over, because we live in a pluralist culture and there's room for 'difficult' poetry alongside rap and everything else. And poetry won't be for everyone, but everyone should have the choice.

I always do my rap from the outside looking in. Like I do my rap as if I'm looking at me rap.

We're feminists. We're doing something that only guys are expected to do and doin' it right! At our concerts we'll do one hard-core rap song and then do one where we'll be real sexy.

Celebrity is ridiculous and silly and it's mad that people like me are listened to - you know, rap stars and movie stars.

There's no way I can compete with someone who can write rap or rock and roll. Nor do I wish to. But I've always kept up to date with music changes. I worked very hard not to type myself.

Times were changing. Clothes were changing. Morals were changing. We went from romantic loves songs like I used to do to rock 'n roll. Now that has changed to rap. So, there's always a new generation with new music.

I don't like rap that you can't understand. The youth is so quick and alert.

When you talk about rap you have to understand that rap is part of the Hip-Hop culture.

Sometimes I feel like rap music is almost the key to stopping racism.

But with rap music - not just N.W.A. - but rap music in general, seeing these artists wearing these team logos all the time started bringing a synergy and energy about having to rep your city, your team, everywhere and all the time.

I used to be focused on being the dopest rapper in the game, and then once that became what I was, I wanted something different, and I wanted to become the best businessman in the game. I wanted to learn how to master the business like I mastered the rap.

Rap music's been around for too long now to be inspirational. The words are, but the music isn't.

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.

There are many collaborations I'd like to explore. One is to co-write a rap concerto with Eminem.

I'm also not going to explain something just because I said it in a rap. Take what you want from it.