Conscious Rap Quotes

#1. Now I have an agent, a manager, a lawyer, a publicist, all the king's horses and all the king's men.

Christian McKay

#2. It's not that you don't make any money doing conscious rap music. You make a lot of money doing this, but if you're greedy and you're not satisfied with $500,000 a year, and you want $2 million a year, then you will suffer as a conscious rap artist.

KRS-One

#3. I look at WorldstarHipHop in the morning, Bossip, Global Grind, and everything in between, but it's all so quick, I don't even think about it. And I've never been a fan of lyrical or socially conscious rap music.

Harmony Korine

#4. If you're a conscious rap artist and you're worried about Billboard charts, you're gonna have a problem.

KRS-One

#5. I pay attention to lyrics and I know what rap fans care about. I try to write for the average listener and I'm conscious of the mainstream without selling out.

J. Cole

#6. The end is the beginning of all things, Suppressed and hidden, Awaiting to be released through the rhythm Of pain and pleasure.

Jiddu Krishnamurti

#7. Kindness is magic.

Sarah Moore Fitzgerald

#8. When you look at a guy like a Jay-Z or look at a guy like a Nas, you don't necessarily qualify them as conscious rap purely, although they are extremely conscious of the social inequities that prevail.

Michael Eric Dyson

#9. Truth had me up against the ropes
And semi-conscious without no boxing skills.

Pharoahe Monch

#10. I believe a lot in gangsta rap, I see in it a lot of positive things as it is. I believe it is only about doing politicization work. Revolutionary change will come from there, it won't come from conscious rap.

Bocafloja

#11. 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

#12. For so-called conscious rappers, it is an opportunity to rap about ways to educate others about African American history, politics and even relationships: all of which would be missed if society merely focused on the "hook" and ignored the influence.

Carlos Wallace

#13. As a conscious rap artist, you should not want to be in a gangster market. You should be trying to establish your own market, create a place where you can be yourself and make some money and feed your family.

KRS-One

#14. I never liked socially conscious rap. I like rap that's physical, that's about a beat and bass and repetition.

Harmony Korine

#15. I had read a Tale of Two Cities and found it up to my standards as a romantic novel. She opened the first page and I heard poetry for the first time in my life ... her voice slid in and curved down trough and over the words. She was nearly singing.

Maya Angelou

#16. I need to work with people who are kind and giving. I can't work with someone I'm scared of.

Ashley Williams

#17. I've been called everything. Gangsta rap. I've been called conscious rap. You know, everything. Whoever feels like calling it whatever they want to call it, that's on them.

Nas

#18. That's one of my struggles as a hip-hop artist. If I feel like doing a super conscious song where I don't even rap.

SonReal

#19. It is very important to learn to weigh up objectively (or assess intuitively) the totality of the competitive and psychological factors.

Mark Dvoretsky