Rap Hip Hop Quotes

#1. I love ... different kinds of music. I like classical music and pop music. I like alternative, and I like rap, hip-hop, and I kind of collected all these things that I love, and they infused my sensibilities, and I just wanted to sing because it felt like it needed to come out of me.

Rachel Platten

#2. I don't only like rap music. There's everything from R&B to crazy gangster rap, hip hop ... everything! But it all blends together nicely. It's like a magical music rainbow.

Kreayshawn

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

Jay-Z

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

Positive K

#5. 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

#6. 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

#7. 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

#8. 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

#9. 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

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

Tina Yothers

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

Raekwon

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

Sean Price

#13. 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.

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

Pete Rock

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

Ras Kass

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

Kanye West

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

Xzibit

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

KRS-One

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

Chuck D

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

Phife Dawg

#21. 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

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

Cappadonna

#23. 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

#24. 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

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

Erick Sermon

#26. 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

#27. The trick with hip-hop-hip-hop is a sport. The only music that's really, really close to a sport. It starts off, "My DJ's better than yours. I can out-rap you, I can out-dance you, my graffiti piece is better than you." It's very competitive.

Ice-T

#28. Look inside my soul and you can find gold and maybe get rich.
Look inside of your soul and you can find out it never exists ...

Kendrick Lamar

#29. This thing called rhymin' is no different than coal minin';
We both on assignment to unearth the diamond.

Mos Def

#30. The business of beauty isn't a natural model;
It's built to be the opposite of the cultures we topple.
These magazines got you caught in a hustle,
Cause when you starve yourself, your body doesn't burn fat, it burns muscles.

Immortal Technique

#31. All we want in this life is peace, prosperity and a little paper.

Q-Tip

#32. This is hip-hop. If you've got something you want to rap about, just rap about it, man.

Yelawolf

#33. 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

#34. I don't dislike rappers or hip-hop or people who like it. I went to the Def Jam tour in Manchester in the '80s when rap was inspirational. Public Enemy were awesome. But it's all about status and bling now, and it doesn't say anything to me.

Noel Gallagher

#35. Put me anywhere on God's green earth, I'll triple my worth.
Motherf
. I, will, not, lose.

Jay-Z

#36. How could you possibly stop the apocalypse when I'm atomic bombin' the populace?

Crooked I

#37. To me, it isn't tight sweaters. That's not what rap is. That's not hip-hop at all. Every phase went through changing up their dress styles and all that, but since Run DMC came out, it's been baggy jeans.

DMX

#38. Now my helmet's on, you can't tell me I'm not in space.

Kool Keith

#39. Am I really just a narcissist,
Cause I wake up to a bowl of lobster bisque?

Rick Ross

#40. I feel like your city - with hip hop in particular, because we're always beating our chest and shouting where we're from - your city is just as influential as your parents. Even the grimy, hardcore gangster rap from New York - KRS-One and Wu Tang, the stuff acknowledges it.

Talib Kweli

#41. When I hit the bong
I'm Godzilla takin' over Hong Kong
Eatin' wonton with a shotgun in long johns.

Redman

#42. The motto goes: Sex, Drugs and Rock 'n' Roll.
I prefer: Love, Hugs and Hip-Hop Soul.

Daniel Dumile

#43. What's crazy to me is that people now assume I'm behind [hip-hop] tracks that other people are putting out. They're just sitting on the edge of their chair waiting for me to put out [rap beats]. But it's not going to happen. I've graduated from that.

AraabMuzik

#44. I got niggaz lookin' for Websters like George Papadopolis'

Ras Kass

#45. I never let the worst things in life get the best of me.
So take these testes and, ummm ... open sesame.

King Sun

#46. The Devil crept into Heaven, God overslept on the 7th,
The New World Order was born on September 11.

Immortal Technique

#47. Music just ain't what it used to;
We used to have songs that you could shoplift or boost to.

Jadakiss

#48. My limo driver's white, my attorney black ...
'Show me some love' like I'm Bernie Mac.

Masta Ace

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

Corbin Bleu

#50. That old ball and chain had me chained up for weeks,
So of course I'm off the chain as soon as I hit the streets.

Consequence

#51. Ayo, shout out to Mobb Deep, the Extra P
Busta Rhymes, De La, the J Beez, so don't sleep

Q-Tip

#52. I'm hooked on gin and tonics like your mama's Hooked on Phonics.

Tash

#53. Life is something you can't borrow and give back;
Here today and gone tomorrow ... just like that.

E-40

#54. And when it comes to gettin nookie, I'm not a rookie ...
I got girls that make that chick Toni Braxton look like Whoopi.

Big L

#55. I used to roll up: this is a hold up, ain't nuthin funny.
Stop smiling, be still, don't nuthin move but the money.

Rakim

#56. I won't hesitate to detonate, I'm short fused.

GZA

#57. How you know where I'm at when you haven't been where I've been?
Understand where I'm coming from?

B-Real

#58. You're insecure and need a blanket like Linus.

King Sun

#59. 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

#60. I'm a monster, I'm a maven,
I know this world is changin'.
Never gave in, never gave up,
I'm the only thing I'm afraid of.

Kanye West

#61. Watch out for the medallion, my diamonds are reckless,
Feels like a midget is hangin from my necklace!

Ludacris

#62. 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

#63. HIP-HOP HAS DIFFERENT ELEMENTS DEALING WITH MUSIC, RAP, GRAFFITI ART, B-BOYS (WHAT YOU CALL BREAK BOYS) ... AND ALSO DEALING WITH CULTURE, AND A WHOLE MOVEMENT DEALING WITH WISDOM AND UNDERSTANDING, AS WELL AS PEACE UNITY AND FUN.

Afrika Bambaataa

#64. Food for thought, eat my words with your mind:
Emcees are grapes, and grapes are crushed to wine.

MF Grimm

#65. Rap is not pop. If you call it that, then stop.

Q-Tip

#66. I got you open like supermarkets!

Busta Rhymes

#67. Others tell like it is, while I tell it how I would like it to be.

Cee Lo Green

#68. I have to be perfectly honest:
You should have an anniversary to acknowledge the way I work the ebonics.

Big Pun

#69. It's deep-rooted, the music of being young and dumb,
It's never muted, in fact, it's much louder where I'm from.

Kendrick Lamar

#70. There's a million ways to live on this thing called a planet,
I'mma live everyday, I ain't takin' nothing for granted.

Sadat X

#71. You the devil in drag.
You can burn your cross,
Well, I'll burn your flag ...

Ice Cube

#72. You're a trivial part in a trivia game.
Now what's your aim? A presidential campaign?
Like Ross Perot? He lost it though ...
But he got a billion in tha bank fo' sho'!

Aceyalone

#73. For what it's worth, I've been a hip-hopper from birth.
Try to disrespect, and get your ass played up like a Smurf.

Extra P

#74. All I want is peace and love on this planet.
Ain't that how God planned it?

Chuck D

#75. Puttin rhymes into shape just like Jack LaLanne.

Lord Finesse

#76. I called every day to see how she was doin,
Every time that I called her, it seemed somethin was brewin.
I called her on my dime, picked up, and then I called again,
I said, 'Yo, who was that?'
'Oh, he's just a friend.'

Biz Markie

#77. You've got to realize that the world's a test,
You can only do your best and let Him do the rest.
You've got your life, and got your health,
So quit procrastinating and push it yourself.

Cee Lo Green

#78. The motivation to me is to make money and not be dependent upon the shallow pool called the entertainment world or the rap world or the hip-hop world.

Killer Mike

#79. I've been a hip hop head forever. So when it turned out that we were gonna start getting celebrity guests for every show, I wanted rap guys from the get-go.

Andy Milonakis

#80. If I should die this very day,
Don't cry ... cause on Earth
We wasn't meant to stay.

Whitney Houston

#81. I don't feel pain cause it's all in the mind,
And what's mines is mines and yours is mine!

Kirk Jones

#82. I'm expressin' with my full capabilities,
And now I'm livin in correctional facilities.
Cause some don't agree with how I do this,
I get straight and meditate like a Buddhist.

Dr. Dre

#83. You ain't as hard as you act.
When I GPS 'pussy,' I end up at your welcome mat ...

Vakill

#84. Slim Shady: Hotter then a set of twin babies
In a Mercedes Benz, with the windows up
When the temp goes up to the mid 80's.

Eminem

#85. It seem like everybody dress tight now,
And I just want my credit.

Kanye West

#86. This country of ours was built on violence;
If your ass got in the way, you was killed in silence.
And these been the ways since back in the days:
Just ask the Indians or the African slaves.

Masta Ace

#87. Life can change your directions, even when you ain't planned it.
All you can do is handle it, worst thing you can do is panic.

T.I.

#88. We got to mediate our greedy levels,
Cause the lust of currency can have us sleepin with the devil.

Q-Tip

#89. Real slow hits from the bong ...
Make me feel like Cheech,
And I'm kickin' it with Chong.

B-Real

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

Jay-Z

#91. I get a craving like I fiend for nicotine.
But I don't need a cigarette, know what I mean?

Rakim

#92. Lyrical lecture, word architecture,
Rap director, the best in my sector.
Microphone cool chief, releasin the smooth speech ...
I get nasty with a pen and some loose leaf.

Lord Finesse

#93. 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

#94. The only good thing about the 1980s was that they invented rap, but rap didn't get good until 1992, so what does that say about the 1980s.

Drew

#95. Hip-Hop got turned into Hit Pop,
The second a record was number one on the pop charts.
But don't skip on the heart, it gotta start in the ghetto,
Let no one forget about the hard part.

MC Serch

#96. We all seem to stumble, planning our own demise,
Getting the big picture, and making it wallet-sized.

Kendrick Lamar

#97. Sawed off shotgun, hand on the pump
Left hand on a forty, puffin' on a blunt
Pumped my shotgun, niggas didn't jump ...
Lala la la lala la laaaa

B-Real

#98. 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

#99. We live in a society created by an empire
That's based on terror ... welcome to the One World Era,
A complete interruption to your lil' paltry-ass life,
That you thought you was livin, and what you been given.

Coolio

#100. I throw raps that attack like the Japs on Pearl Harbor.
MC's be out like bank robbers,
Fleeing the scene, to be a sole survivor;
DJ ... the getaway driver.

GZA