Hip Hop Rap Quotes

#1. I'm into hip-hop, rap, country, blues, gospel, old school, new school ... whatever ... pop. If it's really good, I like it. I don't have to be told what to listen to. If I like it and it's good, I'll listen to it.

Toby Keith

#2. That's the beautiful thing about the saxophone. It can peacefully coexist with just about anything - whether it's hip-hop, rap, rock music, pop, R&B or jazz, there's a place for the saxophone in all of those styles.

Dave Koz

#3. I love things that are very broad. I love alternative, rock, hip hop, rap, and I'll go to classical or jazz.

Corbin Bleu

#4. I listen to a lot of crazy stuff like pop, techno, rock, hip-hop, rap, baladas, bachata ... my iPod is crazy. I like listening to a lot of stuff in different languages, so my music is always out there for me.

Prince Royce

#5. Damn right I like the life I live,
Cause I went from negative to positive.

The Notorious B.I.G.

#6. Screamin' 'Carpe Diem!' until I'm a Dead Poet.

Jay-Z

#7. Maybe I need somebody that could save me
From the parts of myself that keep making me crazy.

Slug

#8. By denying its musical and artistic merit, hip hop's critics get to have it both ways: they can deny the legitimate artistic standing of rap while seizing on its pervasive influence as an art form to prove what a terrible effect it has on youth.

Michael Eric Dyson

#9. Got more milky syllables than alphabet cereals.

Keith Murray

#10. Why did one straw break the camel's back?
Here's the secret:
The million other straws underneath it.

Mos Def

#11. Sippin' on that brown stuff
Got you feeling like you found love,
Or maybe it was just luck.
But honestly ... it's probably none of the above.

Slug

#12. Nowadays, the game is all bugged out,
Phony, like back when Hammer tried to come thugged out.

Daniel Dumile

#13. Shoot eagles on the Jack Nicklaus course,
Porsche with the triple exhaust,
Seats soft like a midget's cough ...

Action Bronson

#14. We in the 25th hour,
It's now or never.
We gotta get it 'fore it's gone forever.
In the end, time waits for no man ...
What's your plan?

Reks

#15. They smile in my face, behind my back they talk trash,
Mad and stuff because they don't have cash.

Erick Sermon

#16. On the square ... I'm not riffin' like Andy Griffith,
Just fed up, goin' head up, with competition.

Positive K

#17. I have considered rap music stars, and there is one in my new book, Lovers and Players, and there is also a hip-hop music mogul who I think you will like a lot.

Jackie Collins

#18. Not to sound cynical, but all you ever learn in prison is how to be a better criminal.

Ras Kass

#19. In my world, even sure bets are not certain;
'Cause you'll get the picture, then find out it's the cropped version.

Joe Budden

#20. People say, 'Grimm, you've been shot like 50.
So why don't you just rhyme like 50?
Then, you could get the money like 50,
Otherwise, before you see success ... you'll be 50.'

MF Grimm

#21. If you ain't using all the talents God provided you with
For the betterment of Man, understand,
You ain't nothing but a waste.

Talib Kweli

#22. As long as I'm around the cats in the hip hop scene, they'll throw me a track and I'll write a rap over it.

Ice-T

#23. Never become so involved with something that it blinds you.
Never forget where you from; someone will remind you.

DMX

#24. I'd rather be broke and have a whole lot of respect.
It's the principle of it.

O.C.

#25. Eat from the Tree of Life and throw away the verbal ham.

Sadat X

#26. My mind's my 9, my pen's my Mac-10.
My target? All you wack niggaz who started rappin'.

The Notorious B.I.G.

#27. You ask me, "Did I like Arsenio?"
About as much as the Bicentennial.

Ice Cube

#28. There's so many gay rappers ...
They probably dis me cause I'm the straight one.

Chino XL

#29. Lyrics are weak, like clock radio speakers.

GZA

#30. I wanna lie to you sometimes ... but I can't.
I wanna tell you that it's all good ... but it ain't.

Cee Lo Green

#31. I actually grew up break-dancing. When you break-dance you listen to hip-hop and rap, so I've been listening to that music since I was a kid.

Matthew Morrison

#32. There's four sides to every story ...
If these walls could talk, they'd probably still ignore me.

Daniel Dumile

#33. Stop tryin to be loud as me, cause you can't do that,
Think about it ... playing Russian roulette with an automatic!

Fredro Starr

#34. I'm like Demerol ...
No disrespect to the Jacksons, but I kill mics.

Cyhi The Prynce

#35. I drink twenty forties, smoke forty blunts,
Say a hundred rhymes, and not sound like you once.

Dres

#36. We ain't speak, clicking heat is our Morse code.

Ka

#37. Rhyme to kill, rhyme to murder, rhyme to stomp,
Rhyme to ill, rhyme to romp,
Rhyme to smack, rhyme to shock, rhyme to roll,
Rhyme to destroy anything, toy boy.
On the microphone:
I'm Poppa Large, big shot on the East Coast.

Kool Keith

#38. To be hip-hop is much more than just rapping in the production. It is more in the attitude.

Questlove

#39. We got to stay awake for all these lizards and snakes;
Some of them come as friends, some of them come as Jakes.

Q-Tip

#40. I'll let a mystery gas out of my blistery ass
Just to disrupt the misery of history class.

MC Paul Barman

#41. I got lots of love for my crew, that is;
No love for them other crews and rival kids.
All them out-of-town niggas know what time it is,
And if they don't? They need to buy a watch, word up.

Prodigy

#42. My brother's been producing rap music and hip-hop for maybe 10 years.

Tina Yothers

#43. Why's my name the Large Professor?
Cause I milked your cow, in other words I hit your heifer.

Extra P

#44. I got beef with commercial-ass niggas with gold teeth
Lampin' in a Lexus eatin' beef.

Raekwon

#45. I once lost a bill betting on the Red Sox,
... But that's another topic.

Diamond D

#46. I wear black while suckers wear pink.

Kool Keith

#47. You need to sweat yourself. Don't sweat nobody else.

Busta Rhymes

#48. Rappers act so wild, and love to profile,
Frontin' hard, but ain't got no style.

Big Daddy Kane

#49. Wake up: all of that 'crack in the street' talk?
It's made up, like 'Jack and the Beanstalk.'

Sean Price

#50. True originator, innovator and creator,
Thinkin' independent but I'm sayin' something major.

One Be Lo

#51. Everything has a price ...
No matter if it's fortune, fame or your life.
I understood later that it's all about paper,
Everything has a fee in the land of the free.

O.C.

#52. Mix me with violence, blend me with peace,
Combine me with hate, and I can't face defeat.

Puff Daddy

#53. I call wild niggas together like Cyrus,
And knock off more birds than the West Nile Virus.

Bumpy Knuckles

#54. Everyone who raps isn't hip-hop. To be hip-hop, you've got to know the culture. You got to know the history.

Ice-T

#55. Putting styles on lock, and making beats by the bundle,
Scooping more props than Bryant Gumbel ... and staying humble.

Pete Rock

#56. So put a gerbil on your Christmas list.

Ras Kass

#57. Most rappers these days is actors,
And I can't keep watching the same movie.

Mick Jenkins

#58. Up against Goliath, to bring butter home.
I'm David on pavement, sling another stone.

Ka

#59. I never boned a honey that I didn't like,
I never saw a mile that I couldn't hike.
I never had a spliff to make me choke,
I never had a pocket that was broke.

Dres

#60. We headed to hell for heaven sakes, well Imma levitate ... make the devil wait.

Kanye West

#61. You pout like a trout in a drought ... can't get out.
You want to scream, but fish can't shout.

MF Grimm

#62. 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

#63. You lose money chasing women;
Never lose women chasing money.

Nas

#64. I'm gettin' stacks while you askin' people, 'Do you want some fries with that?'

Big L

#65. Picture yourself crushin' Xzibit with your tough talk?
That's like Christopher Reeve doing the crip walk.

Xzibit

#66. Tell ya mama to stop flirtin' boy, I'm not a good step-pop.
I interrupt your little session ... and wreck shop.

Bumpy Knuckles

#67. This treadmill lifestyle ain't workin for me ...
It's from ya crib to ya lab to ya job to make a profit,
And at the day's end you still got nothing accomplished.

Phonte

#68. Love yourself and your expression, you can't go wrong.

KRS-One

#69. Linguine linguistics that left my verbal essence saucy,
Send a message, leave you sleepin' next to headless horsey.

Action Bronson

#70. I scored 1.1 on my SAT,
And still push a whip with a right and left AC.

Redman

#71. It's weak to speak and blame somebody else
... When you destroy yourself.

Chuck D

#72. Ain't no love lost, cause there was never none there.

Eric Murray

#73. Street's disciple, my raps are trifle.
I shoot slugs from my brain just like a rifle.

Nas

#74. Styles be fat like Jackie Gleason, the rest be Art Carney.

Phife Dawg

#75. Complainin' to my lawyer how this rookie tried to frisk me ...
Jealous of my jeep, I gave his badge to the chief,
And got his ass directin' traffic in the heat for a week.

RZA

#76. I stay dipped like the first day of school.

Cappadonna

#77. I can't relate to livin' less than great.

Extra P

#78. A child is born with no state of mind,
Blind to the ways of mankind.
God is smilin' on you but He's frownin' too,
Because only God knows what you'll go through.

Melvin Glover

#79. Straight from the heart, I represent hip hop,
I be three albums deep, but I don't wanna go pop,
Too many candy rappers seem to be at the top,
Too much candy is no good, so now I'm closin the shop

Phife Dawg

#80. Commercial rap get the gun clap, day after day.

Buckshot

#81. He was not hip-hop's most gifted emcee. Still, Shakur may be the most influential and compelling rapper of them all, he was more than the sum of his artistic parts.

Michael Eric Dyson

#82. You can do all them push-ups to pump up your chest,
I got a 12 gauge Mossberg to pump up your chest,
Have you gasping for air after that shell hit your vest.
Fear me like you fear God, 'cause I bring death.

Curtis Jackson

#83. Shakespeare's gone, don't even think about it.

Kool Keith

#84. A born terror, a rebel without a pause ...
Ain't never had a good Christmas, so who is Santa Claus?

Shyheim

#85. This opportunity comes once in a lifetime.

Eminem

#86. When I met you it was magic ...
We polar opposites, but attracted like we was magnets.

Talib Kweli

#87. Think you figured it out, but you don't have a clue.
Think you on top of the world, but the world on top of you.

Young Jeezy

#88. Used to have a crush on Dawn from En Vogue.
It's not like honey dip would wanna get with me,
But just in case I own more condoms than TLC.

Phife Dawg

#89. If you love someone, you should say it often,
You never know when they'll be layin' in a coffin.
Wake up, it's important that you know that
No one on Earth is promised tomorrow.

MC Lyte

#90. Nowadays, you gots ta walk the street and watch your back,
Cause brothers with the gats don't be knowin' how to act.

Shyheim

#91. Why is the world round?
Why do the suckas bite?
Why do the freaks come out at night?
Why they paint Jesus white?
I sit and wonder why we breakin hip-hop laws,
Doing videos in houses that we know ain't yours.

Lee Majors

#92. We love it where we from, but we kick it where we at.

Ladybug Mecca

#93. The employees of the year, yeah we back to work.
I took time off, while other rappers got jerked.

Erick Sermon

#94. Don't sell yourself to fall in love,
With those things you do ...

J Dilla

#95. Satisfaction, I have the right tactics ...
And if you need em I got crazy prophylactics.

Q-Tip

#96. Your whole vocabulary's played out, admit it.
Still wack if it came out my mouth and I spit it.

Redman

#97. I guess I was a combination of House of Pain and Bobby Brown:
I was humpin' around and jumpin' around!

The Notorious B.I.G.

#98. I heard when I talk, they all listen,
They hang on every word from the God, they all Christians.
I baptize 'em with lines, this is y'all christenin'
Bless with the gift of my presence, this y'all's Christmas.

Torae

#99. Hip-hop is getting to the point now where they are going to start sounding like Al Jarreau or Bobby McFerrin or some of the other poets. Some of the better rappers can rap real fast without even melodies. It'll get to that same point.

George Clinton

#100. For underground metaphors, you can scrape an inch below the turf.
For what it's worth, my style's been developed in the core of the Earth.
The exhale's volcanic, the inhale is seismic ...

J-Live