Rap Quotes

Rapping (also known as emceeing, MCing, spitting (bars), or just rhyming), refers to “spoken or chanted rhyming lyrics”. The art form can be broken down into different components, as in the book How to Rap where it is separated into “content”, “flow

1. 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.
2. A lot of times black folks look for love in all the wrong places. You’re always looking for somebody to love you, be accepted, and there’s the insecurities that are even transmitted through rap. Everyone is trying to aim to please too much.
3. As far as anybody in the rap game ever tryin’ to assassinate my character, that’s impossible. You talkin’ about a man who has always walked the walk and talked the talk.
4. And to turn it into rap wasn’t too difficult besides just rhymin’ the last words of each line.
5. As long as I’m around the cats in the hip hop scene, they’ll throw me a track and I’ll write a rap over it.
6. 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.
7. 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.
8. 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.
9. David Bowie’s my favorite musician. I love him above all, but I’m really into rap a lot right now.
10. Everybody in the ’80s, well, we hate rap. Now, the biggest rapper in the world… Eminem. Rap’s a black thing.
11. Government workers often get a bad rap, but it’s rare for them to receive much appreciation when government works.
12. Happiness has a bad rap. People say it shouldn’t be your goal in life. Oh, yes it should.
13. I don’t have to put out another rap record. I can do it at my casual pace.
14. 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.
15. I don’t like rap music at all. I don’t think it’s music. It’s just a beat and rapping.
16. I don’t like rap that you can’t understand. The youth is so quick and alert.
17. 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.
18. I have considered rap music stars, and there is one in my new book, Lovers and Players, and there is also a hip-hop music mogul who I think you will like a lot.
19. I haven’t done rap… I can’t do that too well.
20. I like to make music, I like rap music. Even if I’m white, I support that music. If I want to support it or any other white kid wants to support it more power to them.