Top 65 Black Rap Quotes
#1. I got to keep it tight like seams,
Cause ain't no fiends
Comin' in between me and my dreams,
See what I mean, black?
Donnie Lewis
#2. Too hard for MTV, not black enough for BET, just let me be ...
Jadakiss
#3. I chop 'em into salad and my name ain't Caesar.
Black Thought
#4. That's my life. But I don't glorify violence, and I hate jail. The rap game saved me, man: I've got three children, and I wouldn't even think of putting my hand in somebody's pocket or doing something stupid now.
Black Rob
#5. I learned more from Black Star and Black Thought
Than I ever did from any class of any sort.
Toine Manders
#6. 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.
Chuck D
#7. I'm like an eclipse on a Friday the 13th,
With black cats and Haley's Comet,
Blazin' blunts in my driveway ...
Redman
#8. The principles of true hip-hop have been forsaken,
It's all contractual and about money makin'.
Black Thought
#9. Teach the student what needs to be taught.
'Cause black and white kids both take shorts
When one doesn't know about the other one's culture,
Ignorance swoops down like a vulture.
KRS-One
#10. But black people fall for that same argument, and they go around talking about law breakers. We did not make the laws in this country. We are neither morally nor legally confined to those laws. Those laws that keep them up, keep us down.
H. Rap Brown
#11. The only politics in this country that's relevant to black people today is the politics of revolution ... none other.
H. Rap Brown
#12. They claim we're products from the bottom of Hell,
But the black is back, and it's bound to sell.
Picture us coolin' out on the Fourth of July ...
And if you heard we were celebratin', that's a worldwide lie.
Flavor Flav
#13. 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.
Saul Williams
#14. Comin' from the school of hard knocks,
Some perpetrate ... they drink Clorox.
Attack the black, cause I know they lack exact
The cold facts, and still they try to Xerox.
Chuck D
#15. My limo driver's white, my attorney black ...
'Show me some love' like I'm Bernie Mac.
Masta Ace
#16. If there's a heaven, I can't find the stairway
Black Thought
#17. I understand what rappers are talking about. I think rap is less about educating people about the black community and more about making money.
Dennis Rodman
#18. I'm to trying to say I'm something I'm not. Black people understand that. I'm just doing my raps, my way. Rap is black. I recognize that and respect that. I'm just a white guy trying to rap, and I got lucky.
Vanilla Ice
#19. Just think: what if you could just, just blink yourself away?
Black Thought
#20. Roll big blunts, a whole ounce of reefer
Rocked that 'Black and Yellow' before Wiz Khalifa
It's a killer bee color scheme
Ghostface Killah
#21. If the KKK was smart enough, they would've created gangsta rap because it's such a caricature of black culture and black masculinity.
Jackson Katz
#22. Rap actually comes out of punk rock, not black music.
Stanley Crouch
#23. I love black thighs, you sisters better realize
That real hair and real eyes get real guys.
So before you makeup your face, you better make up your mind ...
Common
#24. The myth of black women profiting at the expense of black men is the oldest rap around.
Johnnetta B. Cole
#25. One out of three black men are in the criminal justice system in some form. Their despair is beginning to resonate through the entire culture; that is why suburban children want rap music.
Robert Bly
#26. What if history was changed? slavery reversed
Would black ladies see white boys and clinch they purse?
Fredro Starr
#27. You must begin to define yourself. You must begin to define your Black heritage.
H. Rap Brown
#28. Gangsta rap was a ploy to convince black people to kill each other. Gangsta rap didnt exist.
Alicia Keys
#29. I bring terror like Stephen King,
A black Casanova, runnin niggaz over like Christine
Dr. Dre
#30. Eminem found a legendary voucher in the form of Dr. Dre. He also perfected a unique performance style: as Sasha Frere-Jones wrote in "Haiku for Eminem" after the release of The Marshall Mathers LP, "The way you sound black/when you are conversating/but white when you rap.
Matthew Gasteier
#31. I think rap music is the sole reason for a lot of black acceptance in pop culture; because the music is very popular, it gets our image out in other ways than in movies.
Ice Cube
#32. Crazy frustration, about my lovin situation;
When patience was a virtue ... but I wasn't used to waitin.
Black Thought
#33. Black people must address itself to the causes of poverty. That's oppression in this country.
H. Rap Brown
#34. I got this black chick, she don't know how to act
Always talkin' out her neck, makin' her fingers snap
She like, Listen Jigga Man, I don't care if you rap
You better - R-E-S-P-E-C-T me
Jay-Z
#35. I hate to get on the racial thing because that's something I've always been totally against. But the problem with the media is that they think that the word rock means white and the word rap means black.
Ice-T
#36. Whether chocolate or vanilla, or you're somewhere in between,
A cappuccino mocha or a caramel queen,
Rejected by the black, not accepted by the white world,
And this is dedicated to them dark-skinned white girls.
MURS
#37. Do some good to the ghetto, Mr. Kris Kringle.
Come and stay awhile, kick it with God's Angels.
Take and acknowledge my wisdom and understand
That Santa Claus is a black man.
Keith Murray
#38. Everybody in the black community must organize, and then we decide whether we will have alliance with other people or not, but not until we are organized.
H. Rap Brown
#39. Love and hate, black and white,
Right or wrong, who is right?
Some smoke joints to anoint their brain
To the vanishing point ... so they won't go insane.
Pharoahe Monch
#40. I wear black while suckers wear pink.
Kool Keith
#41. Me being biracial, me being from Canada but having success in the States, I have all these moments in my life where I'm jumping roof to roof. Black to white. Singing and rapping.
Drake
#42. I can rap in a London accent, make weird faces, wear spandex, wigs, and black lipstick. I can be more creative than the average male rapper.
Nicki Minaj
#43. Nowadays rap artists coming half-hearted,
Commercial like pop, or underground like black markets.
Where were you the day hip-hop died?
Is it too early to mourn? Is it too late to ride?
Talib Kweli
#44. So black people all across this country are uniting. They must unite, and they must organize themselves.
H. Rap Brown
#45. The man does not beat your head because you got a Cadillac or because you got a Ford; he beats you because you're black!
H. Rap Brown
#46. I never ever ran from the Ku Klux Klan, and I shouldn't have to run from a black man.
Kool Moe Dee
#47. When you're a little kid, you don't see color, and the fact that my friends were black never crossed my mind. It never became an issue until I was a teenager and started trying to rap
Eminem
#48. So, rap has that quality, for youth anyway; it's a kind of blues element. It's physical, almost gymnastic. It speaks to you organically. Rap grows out of what young people really are today, not only black youth, but white - everybody.
Archie Shepp
#49. My white girl Veronica, black girl Monica,
Got me celebrating Christma-Hanu-Kwanzaa-kah,
Rocking dashikis with a yarmulke.
Big Sean
#50. I got a ill gift, I'm real swift
They be like, 'Damn, he's still rich.'
When I send my Men in Black,
Listen, none of them niggas named Will Smith.
Cam'ron
#52. Everybody in the '80s, well, we hate rap. Now, the biggest rapper in the world ... Eminem. Rap's a black thing.
Chubby Checker
#53. If you really think back to the culture or just black America before rap music took off, New York could have been Paris.
Ice Cube
#54. A lot of people heard about gin and juice for the first time from Snoop Dogg, but it was nothing new in rap music, and it was nothing new in the black community.
Boots Riley
#55. There is no such thing as a black middle class.
H. Rap Brown
#56. And the blunts and liquor killing our lungs and liver. The asthmatic drug-addict, I function with it
Black Thought
#57. All I'm saying, as a fan, is I'm tired of the same song for 30 years. Can't we change the message a little? You've arrived. You have a black president. Every white guy in a commercial doesn't have to be the idiot and every black guy in a rap song doesn't have to be God's gift to the world.
Bill Maher
#58. I say violence is necessary. Violence is a part of America's culture. It is as American as cherry pie. Americans taught the black people to be violent. We will use that violence to rid ourselves of oppression if necessary. We will be free, by any means necessary.
H. Rap Brown
#59. What if Eminem was black? would he have sold five mil.
Or would he be 1 out of 5 million rappers with no deal?
Fredro Starr
#60. I was about one drink away from my limit,
In came a black dress with a black body in it,
She looked so timid, it took me a minute
To get her in focus
Aceyalone
#61. Excuse us for the news,
You might not be amused;
But did you know White comes from Black?
No need to be confused.
Chuck D
#62. In terms of the revolution, I believe that the revolution will be a revolution of dispossessed people in this country: that's the Mexican American, the Puerto Rican American, the American Indian, and black people.
H. Rap Brown
#63. The God's tropical ... ladies call me 'Black Fruit Punch.'
Ghostface Killah
#64. Rap's conscious response to the poverty and oppression of U.S. blacks is like some hideous parody of sixties black pride.
David Foster Wallace
#65. Leave it up to me while I be livin' proof,
To kick the truth to the young black youth.
Inspectah Deck
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