Quotes about rap
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Quotes about rap

“Rap music is the only vital form of music introduced since punk rock.”
As quoted in M.E.A.T (1991-09).
Interviews (1989-1994), Print
[ Link to tweet https://twitter.com/dril/status/26334898832]
Tweets by year, 2010

Breathe In Breathe Out
Lyrics, The College Dropout (2004)

“Brainwashed from rock and rap.”
"Sing For The Moment"
2000s, The Eminem Show (2002)

Mahfouz (1957) Palace of Desire Part II; Cited in Matt Schudel " Leading Arab Novelist Gave Streets a Voice http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/08/30/AR2006083000475.html" in: Washington Post, August 31, 2006

“I'm beginning to feel like a Rap God, Rap God”
"Rap God"
2010s, The Marshall Mathers LP 2 (2013)

Source: "Powerful Song, Man" by Jeffrey Tucker, The Rothbard-Rockwell Report, August 1997, UNZ.org, 2016-05-22 http://www.unz.org/Pub/RothbardRockwellReport-1997aug-00009,

“Rapping bout the hood, in the hills is blasphemy, rapping from the hills to the hood is luxury.”
Roaring 20s
Rebel of the Underground (2013)

“I used to do the rap [on Bring Me To Life], but people could not handle my flow.”
Music and business

Regarding the correlation between punk rock and rap music, as quoted in Wright, Lisa "Abba’s Frida Lyngstad: “Eminem is one of my favourites”" 11 April 2014, NME.com, New Musical Express, TI Media http://www.nme.com/news/music/abba-5-1233767

Life is 2009 Feat. Too Short
Too Hard to Swallow (1992), Underground Kingz (2007)

"Rob Now, Pay Later", Home Alive: The Art of Self Defense (1996)

Never Scared (HBO, 2004)

Reported in Jon Blistein, " Keith Richards: Rap Is for 'Tone-Deaf People' http://www.rollingstone.com/music/news/keith-richards-rap-is-for-tone-deaf-people-20150903", Rolling Stone (September 3, 2015).

http://snltranscripts.jt.org/04/04bupdate.phtml
Weekend Update samples
"A Moral Problem" (1974), p. 88
The Good Word & Other Words (1978)

"The Will Arnett Interview," Television Without Pity (2005) http://www.televisionwithoutpity.com/articles/content/a1005/index-4.html
2005
[Rap Attack 2, New York, Serpent's Tail, ISBN 1852422432, 1991, Toop, David]

“Rap records pressured to laugh, at a life not fast.”
"The Coolest"
Albums, Lupe Fiasco's The Cool (2007)
“I'm on a real short leash here, and I'm tired of your crazy rap!”
Quotes from acting
"An Interest in Life" (1959)

"Chicago, which he once described to me as [...]", quoted by Kurt Vonnegut, 1986.
Nonfiction works
Source Three Lawsuits and a Funeral http://web.archive.org/web/20031217142538/www.mp3newswire.net/stories/2001/funeral.html - 11/30/2001
Quotes from the MP3 Newswire

QuoteHD, Rap Quotes (2001) http://www.quotehd.com/quotes/words/Rap

Song lyrics, Bringing It All Back Home (1965), It's All Over Now, Baby Blue

[Casey, Cisneros, http://media.www.collegian.com/media/storage/paper864/news/2005/01/27/VervetheDishLive/Flavor.Flav.Interview-1705943.shtml, Flavor Flav interview, The Rocky Mountain Collegian, Colorado State University, 27 January 2005, 2008-03-05]

Joe Strummer and Bono, "46664", written for Nelson Mandela's HIV/AIDS festival in 2003.
Lyrics

On how rumors got started that he was working with rapper T.I. (and how they made it to Wikipedia).
Mayer, John (2007). "10 ANSWERS FOR ANDREW MILLER" http://www.johnmayer.com/blog#274 JohnMayer.com (accessed January 25, 2007)

Never Scared (HBO, 2004)

Interview: 50 Cent http://au.movies.ign.com/articles/647/647683p1.html. IGN. 6 September 2005.

"Make Sure U Getta Shirt"
Mixtapes, Fahrenheit 1/15 Part III: A Rhyming Ape (2006)

Source: Dick Gregory's Natural Diet For Folks Who Eat (1973), p. 81

“I was a metalhead and then I was into the rap and then I was a metalhead again.”
View Askew interview (1999)

Final chorus.
Utopia Limited (1893)
Aaron Fuchs quoted by David Toop (1991). Rap Attack 2, p. 120. New York: Serpent's Tail. .

“And since when the rap game had to do with killin a cat, what type o' chitlins is that?”
With DANGERDOOM, "Old School", The Mouse and the Mask (2005)
Sourced Lines

As quoted by David Milner, "Akira Ifukube Interview III" http://www.davmil.org/www.kaijuconversations.com/ifukub3.htm, Kaiju Conversations (December 1995)

Quoted in The Beatles — After the Break-up : In Their Own Words (1991) by David Bennahum, p. 54

As quoted in Peter Godspeed, 'It is my duty' http://www.rezapahlavi.org/details_article.php?article=462&page=2, Canada National Post, September 24, 2010.
Interviews, 2010

Stardom Doesn’t Change Where You’re From (April 02, 2014)

As quoted in [Corbett, Sue, Jason Reynolds Is the Hardest-Working Man in Washington, https://www.publishersweekly.com/pw/by-topic/childrens/childrens-authors/article/74244-jason-reynolds-is-the-hardest-working-man-in-washington.html, Publishers Weekly, 10 March 2020, July 14, 2017]

"You Can't Rap" (song)
("You Can't rap" - Official video on YouTube) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cvCd1Xq0Au4
(+ Lyrics version of "You Can't Rap" on YouTube) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bK_3L-9dv_c
Studio albums, What We Made (2007)

“I don't rap for dead presidents, I'd rather see the president dead”
"We As Americans" (2004)
2000s

[Paulson, Dave, John Crist: A Christian comedian who's gently poking fun at faith, https://www.tennessean.com/story/entertainment/2019/04/11/john-crist-christian-comedian-nashville-comedy-festival-ryman-auditorium/3215394002/, 6 September 2019, The Tennessean, April 11, 2019, en]