Quotes about rap

A collection of quotes on the topic of rap, likeness, people, going.

Quotes about rap

Tupac Shakur photo
Kurt Cobain photo

“Rap music is the only vital form of music introduced since punk rock.”

Kurt Cobain (1967–1994) American musician and artist

As quoted in M.E.A.T (1991-09).
Interviews (1989-1994), Print

“Welcome to the citadel of eternal wisdom. Behold, this crystal contains the sum of all human knowledge -- Except Rap And Country”

Dril Twitter user

[ Link to tweet https://twitter.com/dril/status/26334898832]
Tweets by year, 2010

The Notorious B.I.G. photo
The Notorious B.I.G. photo
Kanye West photo

“Always said if I rapped, I'd say somethin' significant
But now I'm rapping 'bout money, hoes, and rims again.”

Kanye West (1977) American rapper, singer and songwriter

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

Derek Landy photo
Eminem photo

“Brainwashed from rock and rap.”

Eminem (1972) American rapper and actor

"Sing For The Moment"
2000s, The Eminem Show (2002)

Naguib Mahfouz photo

“Voices were blended and intermingled in a tumultuous swirl around which eddied laughter, shouts, the squeaking of doors and windows, piano and accordion music, rollicking handclaps, a policeman's bark, braying, grunts, coughs of hashish addicts and screams of drunkards, anonymous calls for help, raps of a stick, and singing by individuals and groups.”

Naguib Mahfouz (1911–2006) Egyptian writer

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

Eminem photo
Kanye West photo
Eminem photo

“I'm beginning to feel like a Rap God, Rap God”

Eminem (1972) American rapper and actor

"Rap God"
2010s, The Marshall Mathers LP 2 (2013)

Janet Evanovich photo
Ralph Waldo Emerson photo
Jeffrey Tucker photo

“That experiment prefigured today’s rap “artists,” who are entirely dependent on promoters, arrangers, and sound technicians, and create no music themselves.”

Jeffrey Tucker (1963) American writer

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,

Marcus Orelias photo

“Rapping bout the hood, in the hills is blasphemy, rapping from the hills to the hood is luxury.”

Marcus Orelias (1993) American actor, rapper, songwriter, author and entrepreneur

Roaring 20s
Rebel of the Underground (2013)

Amit Chaudhuri photo
Ben Moody photo

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

Ben Moody (1981) American musician

Music and business

Anthony Trollope photo
Anni-Frid Lyngstad photo

“Punk never got into my heart. You hear the anger now in rap, for example, but it’s different and I like that very much. Eminem is one of my favourites.”

Anni-Frid Lyngstad (1945) Swedish female singer

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

Lupe Fiasco photo
Bun B photo

“I remember how it all began, I used to sling dirty raps to my PA fans and back then i knew they couldn't stop this flow no other M. C around could go like i go”

Bun B (1973) American rapper from Texas; 1/2 of UGK

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

Gloria Steinem photo

“I was perversely delighted to see the Catholic Church and the Vatican go after nuns because I think they made a major error. People are quite clear in viewing nuns as the servants and the teachers and the supporters of the poor. You contrast that with the fact that the Vatican did virtually nothing about long-known pedophiles, and it’s just too much.
Their stance on abortion is also quite dishonest historically, because as the Jesuits (who always seem to be more honest historians of the Catholic Church) point out, the Church approved of and even regulated abortion well into the mid-1800s. The whole question of ensoulment was determined by the date of baptism. But after the Napoleonic Wars there weren’t enough soldiers anymore and the French were quite sophisticated about contraception. So Napoleon III prevailed on Pope Pius IX to declare abortion a mortal sin, in return for which Pope Pius IX got all the teaching positions in the French schools and support for the doctrine of papal infallibility. … My favorite line belongs to an old Irish woman taxi driver in Boston. Flo Kennedy and I were in the backseat talking about Flo’s book, Abortion Rap (1971), and the driver turned around and said, “Honey, if men could get pregnant, abortion would be a sacrament.” I wish I’d gotten her name so we could attribute it to her.”

Gloria Steinem (1934) American feminist and journalist

The Humanist interview (2012)

Jello Biafra photo
Gary Snyder photo

“If, after obtaining Buddhahood, anyone in my land
gets tossed in jail on a vagrancy rap, may I
not attain highest perfect enlightenment.”

Gary Snyder (1930) American poet

Burning, from No Nature; New and Selected Poems (1992)

Chris Rock photo
Keith Richards photo

“Rap — so many words, so little said. What rap did that was impressive was to show there are so many tone-deaf people out there. All they need is a drum beat and somebody yelling over it and they're happy. There’s an enormous market for people who can't tell one note from another.”

Keith Richards (1943) British rock musician, member of The Rolling Stones

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).

Dylan Moran photo
Tom Robbins photo
George W. Bush photo
Amy Poehler photo

“Britney Spears is recording a rap song about the recent controversies in her life. "I can't wait to hear that!", said no one.”

Amy Poehler (1971) American actress

http://snltranscripts.jt.org/04/04bupdate.phtml
Weekend Update samples

Willie Nelson photo
Will Arnett photo
Lupe Fiasco photo

“Rap records pressured to laugh, at a life not fast.”

Lupe Fiasco (1982) rapper

"The Coolest"
Albums, Lupe Fiasco's The Cool (2007)

Mr. T photo

“I'm on a real short leash here, and I'm tired of your crazy rap!”

Mr. T (1952) American actor and retired professional wrestler

Quotes from acting

Ed Harcourt photo
Warren Farrell photo
Nelson Algren photo

“[Chicago is] the only major city in the country where you can easily buy your way out of a murder rap.”

Nelson Algren (1909–1981) American novelist, short story writer

"Chicago, which he once described to me as [...]", quoted by Kurt Vonnegut, 1986.
Nonfiction works

Dee Dee Ramone photo

“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.”

Dee Dee Ramone (1951–2002) German-American songwriter and musician

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

Bob Dylan photo

“The vagabond who's rapping at your door,
Is standing in the clothes that you once wore,
Strike another match, go start anew!
And it's all over now, Baby Blue.”

Bob Dylan (1941) American singer-songwriter, musician, author, and artist

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

Nas photo

“When I was nine, coldest winter i remember
we're slipping in december, two feet of snow
Yeah thats the east coast, that black ice - symbolize the rap life”

Nas (1973) American rapper, record producer and entrepreneur

Hope
On Albums, Hip Hop Is Dead (2006)

Lil Boosie photo

“Boosie this, Boosie that, well Boosie keep a 30 strapp, my dog he shot the murder gat but Boosie took the murder rap”

Lil Boosie (1982) American rapper from Baton Rouge, Louisiana

Look at Me Now

Flavor Flav photo
Joe Strummer photo
John Mayer photo
John Godfrey Saxe photo
Chris Rock photo

“If you wanna get away with murder, all you gotta do is shoot somebody in the head and put a demo tape in their pocket! "This is a rap killing. Let's go home!"”

Chris Rock (1965) American comedian, actor, screenwriter, television producer, film producer, and director

Never Scared (HBO, 2004)

The Edge photo
50 Cent photo
Lupe Fiasco photo
Dick Gregory photo
Jason Mewes photo

“I was a metalhead and then I was into the rap and then I was a metalhead again.”

Jason Mewes (1974) American actor

View Askew interview (1999)

W. S. Gilbert photo
MF Doom photo

“And since when the rap game had to do with killin a cat, what type o' chitlins is that?”

MF Doom (1971) hip hop artist from America

With DANGERDOOM, "Old School", The Mouse and the Mask (2005)
Sourced Lines

Akira Ifukube photo

“When I read the script for GODZILLA VS. SPACE GODZILLA, it reminded me of teenage idol films. In addition, the movie was going to have rap music in it. So, I thought, "Well, this is not my world, so I better not score this one."”

Akira Ifukube (1914–2006) Japanese composer

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

Robert Graves photo
George Harrison photo

“Rap music is just computerised crap. I listen to Top of the Pops and after three songs I feel like killing someone.”

George Harrison (1943–2001) British musician, former member of the Beatles

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

Reza Pahlavi photo

“We know the country, its potential, its resources, where it was and where it could have been. We should be at the level of a Taiwan or a South Korea today, not ranked 150th in the world, even though we are an oil-producing country… We should not have our Iranian rap artists say the regime is promising us yellow cake when we don't even have bread to eat.”

Reza Pahlavi (1960) Last crown prince of the former Imperial State of Iran

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

Richard Sherman (American football) photo
Steven Crowder photo
Jason Reynolds photo
Example (musician) photo

“You can't rap, my friend
You're white and you're from Fulham
Please put down the mic
there's no way you can fool them
Don't be stupid, you won't get that far
Turn your back on hip-hop, bruv, and go and play guitar”

Example (musician) (1982) English rapper and singer

"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)

Eminem photo

“I don't rap for dead presidents, I'd rather see the president dead”

Eminem (1972) American rapper and actor

"We As Americans" (2004)
2000s

John Crist (comedian) photo

“I think Christian comedy has gotten a bad rap in the past because it's very passive, and it's not honest. It's like knock-knock jokes type humor. What we're bringing to the table is another level of honesty, and maybe transparency that I think does make some people uncomfortable.”

John Crist (comedian) (1984) American comedian

[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]