Top 38 Jay Z Rap Quotes
#1. Wrestling has grown so big ... it's almost a culture. And it's a culture of all types of vibes, just like hip-hop has all kinds of vibes and rap has all kinds of vibes.
Jam Master Jay
#2. Speaking out against rap music is useless, and it's futile. The reality is there's criticism for everything, but Jay-Z is one of the most remarkable artists of our time of any genre, and as a hip-hop artist he carries the weight of that art form with such splendor and grace and genius.
Michael Eric Dyson
#3. If skills sold, truth be told, I'd probably be
Lyrically, Talib Kweli
Truthfully, I wanna rhyme like Common Sense
But I did 5 mill' - I ain't been rhyming like Common since.
Jay-Z
#4. My feet might fail me, my heart might ail me,
The synagogues of Satan might accuse or jail me,
Strip, crown, nail me, brimstone hail me ...
They might defeat the flesh but they could never ever kill me.
They might feel the music but could never ever feel me.
Jay Electronica
#6. Rap has been a path between cultures in the best tradition of popular music.
Jay-Z
#7. House, rap, R&B, disco rock, they are all part of hip-hop culture. Why you ain't playing Kraftwerk along with Jay-Z? That's hip-hop.
Afrika Bambaataa
#8. You know the type: loud as a motorbike but wouldn't bust a grape in a fruit fight.
Jay-Z
#9. Stop screamin', you know the demon said it's best to die,
And even if Jehovah witness, bet he'll never testify, D'Evils ...
Jay-Z
#10. Jay-Z is like a rap-savant, he doesn't have to write the rhymes down, he can create complex raps in his head. I mean he does memorize it, he just doesn't write it down on paper. He doesn't freestyle onto the track, it's all thought out.
Ice-T
#11. Back in the day, if someone said that hip hop and rap was a fad, that was a joke to me because they just didn't know what they were talking about. In reality, there were so many people who didn't know what they were talking about it.
Jam Master Jay
#12. And through our travels we get separated, never forget:
In order to survive, got to learn to live with regrets.
Jay-Z
#13. I have periods where I listen to regular rap, Jay-Z, Eminem and Lil Wayne. The next day I might have some Christian alternative music. The next day I have on some dance music. It all varies what I listen to.
Steve Blake
#14. Racism is taught in the home. We agree on that? Well, it's very hard to teach racism to a teenager who's listening to rap music and who idolizes, say, Snoop Dogg. It's hard to say, 'That guy is less than you.' The kid is like, 'I like that guy, he's cool. How is he less than me?
Jay-Z
#15. You could name practically any problem in the hood and there'd be a rap song for you.
Jay-Z
#16. The FBI is urging all Americans to beware of any letters or packages that have badly misspelled words. Man, this is going to be terrible news for the rap industry.
Jay Leno
#17. 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
#18. The Nets' a stone throw from where I used to throw bricks
... So it's only right I'm still tossing 'round Knicks.
Jay-Z
#19. Beef is not what Jay said to Nas;
Beef is when the working folks can't find jobs.
Mos Def
#20. 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
#21. I'm a hustler, baby; I sell water to a well!
Jay-Z
#22. We create music to express ourselves and when the world relates, that's a beautiful thing. We're all trading off each other's culture, so no matter what lines you put-country indie rock, rap, we're all somehow gonna find a way to come together.
Jay-Z
#23. When Rick Perry was told about Kim Jong Il, he said, 'I never heard of him, but then again, I don't listen to that rap.'
Jay Leno
#24. Cough up a lung where I'm from marcy son, aint nothin nice
Jay-Z
#25. I'm not a businessman, I'm a business, man!
Jay-Z
#26. I used to wanna rap like Jay-Z,
Now I feel I could run laps around Jay-Z,
Nas ain't seen nothing this nasty,
B.I.G. & Pac got it coming when I pass too.
You got the mic, I ain't the one you wanna pass to
Ab-Soul
#27. The average rap life is two or three albums. You're lucky to get to your second album in rap!
Jay-Z
#28. Rap for me is like making movies, telling stories, and getting the emotions of the songs through in just as deep a way. And I grew up in rap and movies the same way.
Jay-Z
#29. They say a midget standing on a giant's shoulders can see much further than the giant. So I got the whole rap world on my shoulders, they trying to see further than I am.
Jay-Z
#30. Screamin' 'Carpe Diem!' until I'm a Dead Poet.
Jay-Z
#31. Jay-Z and Kanye West are to authentic rap culture what diseased rates were to 14th century Europeans
Dean Cavanagh
#32. 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
#33. Put me anywhere on God's green earth, I'll triple my worth.
Motherf
. I, will, not, lose.
Jay-Z
#34. I'm pretty sure JAY Z don't wanna rap right now.
Young Thug
#36. I said Yo Jay, I can rap. And I spit this rap that said I'm killin' ya'll *****s on this lyrical sh*t, mayonnaise colored benz, I push miracle whips.
Kanye West
#37. Well I'm not just gon' go and do rap songs. I wanna touch, and maybe help, and see what I can do in these areas.' As I start looking around me, looking at things in ways that I can become helpful, starting at the first thing, water. Something as simple as water.
Jay-Z
#38. I grew up listening to Jay-Z, and I think the first time I really became obsessed with learning and thinking about lyrics was when I started listening to rap; I was 11, 12, and started becoming aware of music beyond the familiar.
Ezra Koenig
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