Rap Quotes

Why shouldn't rap be esoteric, able to take in current events, history and criticism? I guess it's this old idea of containment - that rappers, because they're black, can't and shouldn't aspire to look outside the ghetto for influence.

That's why I called my record Devil Without a Cause - I'm a white boy who's so sick of hearing that white kids are going to steal rap.

I love my city and I feel like the majority of the people that are in the city are people from other cities. So I think that L.A. sometimes might get a bad rap because it's known to be so Hollywood-oriented and then underneath that you have crime. But that's really the case in pretty much any major city that you go to.

I'm just basically spillin' out my emotions to the world. 'Cause rap is about emotion. And I want you to feel what I'm feelin', 'cause that's what it's all about.

I have periods where I listen to regular rap, Jay-Z, Eminem and Lil Wayne. The next day I might have some Christian alternative music. The next day I have on some dance music. It all varies what I listen to.

I don't like the fact that there are so few women in rap.

The biggest rap on me is that I don't find a Watergate every couple of years. Well, Watergate was unique. It's not something Carl Bernstein, I, or the Washington Post caused.

When I first got into the rap game, I had an early dream of unifying rappers.

Government workers often get a bad rap, but it's rare for them to receive much appreciation when government works.

I'm a tremendous believer and supporter in hip-hop and rap.

I don't feel that rap has been respected as an art form. Because people have seen rappers rap off the top of their heads, they don't think it is difficult.

The whole world has changed much since the '80's. In the united States, rap music and country music dominate radio and that certainly wasn't the case in the early '80's.

Back in the day, if someone said that hip hop and rap was a fad, that was a joke to me because they just didn't know what they were talking about. In reality, there were so many people who didn't know what they were talking about it.

It would be pretty funny to see a Beverly Hills white girl with mad rap skills.

Rap records don't make you feel good no more. Six months after release, it can't come back as a classic.

I got tired of the Ramones around the time I quit and I really got into rap. I thought it was the new punk rock. LL Cool J was my biggest idol.

I'm not blowing my own trumpet here, but I made a rap song 20 years ago with Afrika Bambaataa.

I remember being told 'Someone's gonna make a fortune out of this rap thing' and thinking 'no way'.

David Bowie's my favorite musician. I love him above all, but I'm really into rap a lot right now.

My take on rap is driven by straightforward American southern rock and blues.

Rap in general has never been my steez, but I like it.

You know, most people called rap stupid when it started, and it was one of the most innovative music forms of its time.

At least the rap metal stuff is good, but it's not really my bag. I've been listening to the radio since we've been touring the past month, because we don't get it most of the time.

Say there's a white kid who lives in a nice home, goes to an all-white school, and is pretty much having everything handed to him on a platter - for him to pick up a rap tape is incredible to me, because what that's saying is that he's living a fantasy life of rebellion.

Now I listen to all kinds of music except rap, which all sounds the same to me.

Rap is rhythm and poetry. Hip-hop is storytelling and poetry as well.

I kind of remember a friend of mine saying, like, you guys should make a rap record. You know, because we were already making punk records. We were a punk band. And I kind of thought, that's crazy.

The average rap life is two or three albums. You're lucky to get to your second album in rap!

I listen to music for emotion and I get zero emotion from rap.

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.