Rap Quotes

I don't give a fuck, God sent me to piss the world off.

Eminem

I'm a hustler, baby; I sell water to a well!

Jay-Z

Some men are born to be good some born to be badAs for me I only came with just a pen ‘n’ a pad.

I know one thing for sho Heaven’s gotta have a ghettoCuz where else in death do I get to go?

To me, its just a word, a word whose power is owned by the user and his or her intention. People give words power, so banning a word is futile, really. 'Nigga' becomes 'porch monkey' becomes 'coon' and so on if that's what's in a person's heart. They key is to change the person. And we change people through conversation, not through censorship.

Jay-Z

If you believe that I'm a cop killer, you believe David Bowie is an astronaut.

Ice-T

I want to marry his smile, and if his smile is already married to someone else, then I want to marry his eyebrows and eyes. They're remarkable. Nobody's ever made better use of his or her eyes or eyebrows as a rapper than Kurtis Blow.

Cuz even a gangsta rapper can find redemptionFor the sins committed before revelation.

Jay-Z and Kanye West are to authentic rap culture what diseased rates were to 14th century Europeans

When hip-hop was born she had no commercial home, and was an invention of beautiful creativity. Born from a beautiful struggle, today she is mostly a 'ratchet' bitch spitting nonsense from her pimp's mansion.

What if there were health food stores on every corner in the hood, instead of liquor stores!?

I'm not a businessman, I'm a business, man!

Jay-Z

You can be the ugliest man in the world but once you got money, you can have all the women in the world.

Jonathan Anthony Burkett

Rap in its form is poetry, meaning the point of convergence is words.

I like to quote Shakespeare. But in this case, the rapper Eminem said it best: Words are a motherfucker.

Life's a maze, you twist and you turn through itThe driest of droughts, maneuvered and I earned through it

Clipse

Rap is supposed to motivate, humours, address societal issues & personal feelings, and also liberate me through art, not insult our women.

If you can't tell from my rap lyrics already, yes I am a feminist. And when I'm saying "hoe" or "bitch" I am actually referring to men. ...That sounded bad, in someway. But at the end of the day, I'm sick of rappers using "bitches" and "hoes" as terms towards women. Feminists are NOT a hate group. Feminists are not all female. Nor has it got an anti-male agenda. It's about equality! I've had a weird, special bond with women since I was a kid. And it's just a shame really that I'm gay.

scott mcgoldrick

Life is too short for shitty sex and bad relationships. So go find someone who fucks you right and treats you how you deserve to be treated.

Genereux Philip

My inspiration for writing music is like Don McLean did when he did "American Pie" or "Vincent". Lorraine Hansberry with "A Raisin in the Sun". Like Shakespeare when he does his thing, like deep stories, raw human needs.I'm trying to think of a good analogy. It's like, you've got the Vietnam War, and because you had reporters showing us pictures of the war at home, that's what made the war end, or that shit would have lasted longer. If no one knew what was going on we would have thought they were just dying valiantly in some beautiful way. But because we saw the horror, that's what made us stop the war.So I thought, that's what I'm going to do as an artist, as a rapper. I'm gonna show the most graphic details of what I see in my community and hopefully they'll stop it quick.I've seen all of that-- the crack babies, what we had to go through, losing everything, being poor, and getting beat down. All of that. Being the person I am, I said no no no no. I'm changing this.

What's the Symmetry???John Doe...Jane Doe... wtf... wtf...

Not afraid to die , but not the fear of death

Rotik the marathi rapper

The dull pulse-like beat started at eleven o’clock at night. It was a new kind of music called ‘rap’. It baffled Ananda even more than disco. He had puzzled and puzzled over why people would want to listen and even move their bodies to an angry, insistent onrush of words – words that rhymed, apparently, but had no echo or afterlife. It was as if they were an extension of the body: never had words sounded so alarmingly physical, and pure physicality lacks empathy, it’s machine-like.

A digital sound sample in angry rap doesn't correspond to the graffiti but the wall.

You could name practically any problem in the hood and there'd be a rap song for you.

Jay-Z

Rap has been a path between cultures in the best tradition of popular music.

Jay-Z

Oh shit did you just dis the feminine genderI'll pummel your ass then stick you in a blenderYou think I like Tori and Ani so I can't rhymeBut I got flow like Ghostbusters got slimeObjectify women and it's fuckin' onYou'll be dead and gone like ancient Babylon.

It ain't no fun if the homies can't have none.

A poet's mission is to make words do more work than they normally do, to make them work on more than one level.

Jay-Z