Rapping's Quotes

#1. I'm always gonna rap. Rapping's what I started doing, I even sang when I first started rapping, when I couldn't really sing at all but I always tried.

SonReal

#2. I don't like rap music at all. I don't think it's music. It's just a beat and rapping.

Nina Simone

#3. I just wanna affect the culture and wanna be able to support young people with goals that aren't just limited to rapping and producing.

Wale

#4. When I was 11, I decided to start rapping, playing guitar, and writing songs. Everything really blossomed from there.

Becky G

#5. People who mock rap and say, "I don't like it" should go and check out Kanye [West] in the studio rapping, or Marshall, Eminem, when he's in the studio. It's a phenomenon. Don't knock it until you've seen it. It may not be your cup of tea, but don't ridicule it.

Elton John

#6. I've been rapping since 1979.

Coolio

#7. I was the kind of kid who loved singing. I loved rapping; I loved attention. But for me, it was more about chasing the dream of being a superstar because of the town I was from and because of what I'd seen.

Trey Songz

#8. I like challenging myself. I like the challenge of rapping to fast beats, rapping to beats that are super slow, whatever. I like the challenges, so I'm not afraid to take on any piece of music and create a song to it if it feels right to me.

Will Ferrell

#9. I was rapping as a hobby. It was something I did for my friends and just played around on ideas and stuff like that.

Brandy Norwood

#10. Rapping is talking and communicating, and that's always good.

Ice Cube

#11. I like the whole laid-back rapping. I wish I could rap! I wish I could wrap like Azealia Banks or Lil Wayne or someone like that ...

Charli XCX

#12. If you're really a rapper, you can't stop rapping.

Ice-T

#13. When I got into high school and I was rapping, it was the attention I was loving. It was so hype.

Eve

#14. SK La'Flare's a legend. It was me, him and Vince, and Frank would come through sometimes and s - - and he was, like, fully rapping. N - - s was on it.

Earl Sweatshirt

#15. The most popular rap artists aren't supposed to be rapping about being broke.

Danny Brown

#16. When break dancing was out, I break danced. When rapping was the thing, I freestyled rap on the street and battled and all that kind of stuff.

Mekhi Phifer

#17. My come-out record, '10 Day,' was the thing people were supposed to hear and figure out 'he's good' or 'he's not good.' 'Acid Rap' is the comeback tape, and it asks way bigger and better questions than, 'Is he good at rapping?'

Chance The Rapper

#18. My name came from me wanting a 'double-letter' artist name. In search of the ultimate L-word to put in front of my real name Luke, I heard Snoop Dogg rapping in Gin and Juice 'Laaaaiiidbackk ... ' and I was sold!

Laidback Luke

#19. It looked like Mission Control, if NASA's business was launching rockets full of rapping multiracial actors in colonial garb into space.

Lin-Manuel Miranda

#20. I have good pronunciation no matter what language I speak. Maybe it's because my specialties are rapping and imitating others

G-Dragon

#21. People were talking while I was playing, so I got up and left the stage. I've gotten to the point where I'm not really very patient with patrons rapping during the show. And the people were all nice and quiet when I cam back.

Bruce Hornsby

#22. Lula had Eminem cranked up. He was rapping about trailer park girls and how they go round the outside, and I was wondering what the heck that meant. I'm a white girl from Trenton. I don't know these things. I need a rap
cheat sheet.

Janet Evanovich

#23. I always knew that I would be some type of public figure, but I never knew that it would be rapping.

Freddie Gibbs

#24. I was part of a group called Casanova Fly, doing bouncer work, attending college and working in a pizza shop when I first met producer Sylvia Robinson who came into the pizza shop where I was flipping the dough. I was rapping in the park in Englewood, and she heard about what I was doing.

Big Bank Hank

#25. When I came out rapping on my record, a lot of people said, Oh, you just want to be like Puff.

Jermaine Dupri

#26. I write love poems when I'm not rapping. It comes naturally." He winked at me.
"If you start rapping, I promise you I'll throw myself off this platform.

Kristen Day

#27. appearance by announcing that arrangements were made for the swallowing up of London and Westminster. Even the Cock-lane ghost had been laid only a round dozen of years, after rapping out its messages,

Charles Dickens

#28. Whatever happened in the neighborhood. That's what I was rapping about. And that sparked people's interest. And that's what kind of put me on that path.

Ice Cube

#29. Rapping and singing are not two polar opposites. There's so much middle ground. And I think there's a lot of people who find that middle ground.

Ezra Koenig

#30. I'm definitely inspired by Michael Jackson. I watch all his videos all the time. And Busta Rhymes, early Busta Rhymes - I really was inspired by him. He's really the reason why I started rapping. Because all his visuals. I loved his videos when I was younger.

Tyga

#31. My own rapping skills are quite good, actually. You get this thing, I think it's called Songify or AutoRap, and you talk into them, and they auto-tune it and make it into a quite interesting musical number. And I got one where it builds it into a rap.

Aidan Gillen

#32. There's been lots of theater that uses hip-hop in it, but more often than not, it's used as a joke - isn't it hilarious that these characters are rapping. I treat it as a musical form, and a musical form that allows you to pack in a ton of lyric.

Lin-Manuel Miranda

#33. Throughout my rapping career, I always cooked for myself and anyone I worked with. It's what actually kept me grounded through those crazy years.

Coolio

#34. That's what my music ... I'm working on a solo record right now, it's gonna be more hip-hop than anything, like electronic hip-hop, futuristic hip-hop. I'm probably gonna be rapping on it.

Alan Vega

#35. Rather than trying to put an end to Eminem or some other rapper, politicians should think about why they're rapping. It's easier to try to censor some kid who's swearing about poverty than it is to stop the poverty.

Willie Nelson

#36. Rapping about a surgery is something that makes sense for me to do.

Lazarus Of Bethany

#37. I'm rapping in English but in an African way. I'm not trying to sound like an American.

Emmanuel Jal

#38. Well before I was rapping. I was just a regular kid in school. I just liked to chill my friends and play games and stuff like that. One day at school my friends were freestyling at the lunch table and thats where it all started.

Soulja Boy

#39. I always loved rapping ever since Snoop said "1-2-3-4," I was repeating lines, but I didn't start writing my own lyrics until I was twelve.

Fashawn

#40. It's about finding what's next. I'm hesitant to let people know what producers I'm f
ing with, what I'm rapping about. I'd rather drop that winning hand out of nowhere.

Drake

#41. I think somewhere along the way I realized, 'O.K., no one's gonna care about a chubby Jewish dude rapping.' I realized I'd be better behind the scenes.

Benny Blanco

#42. I love doing the music. I love programming beats and kind of working on the music as much, if not more, than the actual rapping.

Joaquin Phoenix

#43. Language is rich, and malleable. It is a living, vibrant material, and every part of a poem works in conjunction with every other part - the content, the place, the diction, the rhythm, the tone-as well as the very sliding, floating, thumping, rapping sounds of it.

Mary Oliver

#44. There are a lot of people who really abused sampling and gave it a bad name, by just taking people's entire hit songs and rapping over them. It gave publishers license to get a little greedy.

Beck

#45. I started rapping because I wanted people to hear what I have to say, I want as many people to hear me as possible, and I do everything in my power to make that pop.

Talib Kweli

#46. I was a good student. By 8th grade, you've basically learned everything. By senior year, we was drinking, we was kickin' it, we was rapping. It wasn't really like business, hard work.

Dreezy

#47. I was rapping at eight.

Nick Cannon

#48. I was rapping in 1939. It's old. The roots are complex. And kids don't know.

Quincy Jones

#49. Rapping can be repetition sometimes. Sometimes you gotta highlight your words in a certain kind of way. So I always was a fan of sing-rapping. It was always funny to me a little bit, and I think that being funny and being able to laugh, even at yourself, is a form of flattery.

ASAP Ferg

#50. If I was with some other rappers who aren't as polished, or I was the only rapper, I don't think I would be where I'm, nor would I be rapping. They pushed me, we pushed each other on every record.

Schoolboy Q

#51. I look at my career and I feel I have the potential to maybe mature into a Samuel Jackson-type older cat, and people will still respect me and say 'Yo, Ice-T was wild', into my old age. And why not? I don't necessarily think I'll be rapping in 10 years.

Ice-T

#52. 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

#53. Myself, I'm just a simple country boy who spent time on the streets and developed a style of writing and rapping and a cool sound that people seem to enjoy.

Big Smo

#54. I went to Sirius Satellite Radio and did my show, Rapping With Rip.

Rip Taylor

#55. I'm not really interested in anybody, that's why I started rapping. I'm still a fan of Tupac. That's the only rapper that I'm still like, "Oh! Tupac!"

Spencer Pratt

#56. London and Westminster. Even the Cock-lane ghost had been laid only a round dozen of years, after rapping out its messages, as the spirits

Charles Dickens

#57. It makes me wonder what this rapping shits a hobby for, oh that's right, because I'm gifted in another field, and another field, and another field.

Donald Glover

#58. If you want to say something profound, writing from your heartbeat is different than writing from the loud voices you get from music. If they're rapping from noise, it's about robbing people. It's that simple.

Russell Simmons

#59. I saw Nicki for the first time and, like, literally fell in love. She had this snap-back hat on that said 'Minaj.' She used to wear that every single day. She was like a theater student and she was so cold at rapping.

Drake

#60. I love rapping. I do. My styling's similar to Missy Elliott - I think she's so dope. In a weird way, that's how I first learned the American accent: doing American rap songs.

Rebel Wilson

#61. I used to do design before I was actually rapping. I went to art and design high school.

ASAP Ferg

#62. I think every rapper should know how to sing, like a little bit. I mean common man it'll make your rapping better straight up.

SonReal

#63. Even the Cock-lane ghost had been laid only a round dozen of years, after rapping out its messages, as the spirits of this very year last past (supernaturally

Charles Dickens

#64. When I was in south Sudan, people used to rap in my village. But the rapping was more in the mother tongue, Nuer.

Emmanuel Jal

#65. It was dope to the point where I felt like Common almost admired me as much as I admired him. He took us to the hotel, and then he was going through his phone, rapping his raps to me. I was like, Is Common rapping to me right now, trying to get my feedback?

Dreezy

#66. Young kids out here see what's on TV and feel like they can start rapping. They think rappers are rich and really have their own jets and Bentleys, but in lot of cases that stuff is rented.

Rahki

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

Questlove

#68. Bet you didn't see that coming," she murmured.
"I didn't, no. If I'd realized rapping your head would turn you into an insatiable sexual maniac who'd use me so brutally, I'd have cold-cocked you long before this.

J.D. Robb

#69. There's been people who've rapped and produced - like Kanye - but I don't feel like on the rapping side there's ever been a producer who can rap as good as I think I can rap.

J. Cole

#70. I don't want to just be fully rapping my whole life.

Meek Mill

#71. So with the freestyles, I just do it for fun. If I hear something that I like, I'm rapping on it.

Kid Cudi

#72. How can you be tired? your poor horse did all the running."
"It was emotionally exhausting, Hammond," Breeze said, rapping the larger man's hand with his cane.

Brandon Sanderson

#73. I never gave up rapping - it gave up on me. There was no industry and no appetite for UK rap back then and I had a daughter to feed. I couldn't keep doing something full time that didn't pay the bills.

Doc Brown

#74. I was 14 years old when I started rapping and I was terrible. I fell in love with it though and when that happens with me I become super passionate and go all the way with it.

G-Eazy

#75. I started rapping when I was about 12 or 13, just playing around with it.

Young Buck

#76. Rapping for me is more about being entertaining and giving something back to the fans. I want people to say, 'There goes Pooch holding his own with Consequence, Rick Ross, and Drake.'

Pooch Hall

#77. You see somebody rapping and you're like, "Nah, my cousin can do that." You're spoiled by the experience. Overseas, it's still something that people can appreciate.

Talib Kweli

#78. What I don't do is try to like become whoever I'm rapping with. The people who go get an LL album want to hear LL.

LL Cool J

#79. I don't even think I'm that good at rapping, but I think what makes a great rapper - what CAN make a great rapper - is someone who wants to be better.

Donald Glover

#80. I'm not rapping, I'm conversing. It's just a conversation between me and you.

Snoop Dogg

#81. I would say I started rapping because my friends were doin' it.

Action Bronson

#82. I hadn't done much rapping in a while. I really wasn't sure I was going to do that any more. For a couple years I thought I was done with that. It wasn't really required of me.

Beck

#83. I started rapping before anybody had ever bought a car from it. It was truly about the art form and the culture, more so than now, where it's a successful way to make money. Back then you had to be doing it because you liked it.

Ice-T

#84. When I'm not longer rapping, I want to open up an ice cream parlor and call myself Scoop Dogg.
Snoop Dogg.

Snoop Dogg

#85. Young people are experts on leisure, water skiing, dancing, rock music, rapping, TV watching ... by and large, chores are a thing of the past.

Billy Graham

#86. The song that's affected me the most profoundly is probably Michael Jackson's 'Thriller,' or, more specifically, the couple seconds of instrumental break before Vincent Price starts 'rapping.'

Patrick Stump

#87. Usually, my rhymes are just in my head. I start off with a theme, and once I start rapping and writing and singing, the chorus and all that, it just starts flowing. Then it's done in about an hour! I write a lot of songs.

Roshon Fegan

#88. I'm not completely at ease at rapping, I can't do it well yet.

Namie Amuro

#89. When it came to hip-hop ... I don't know. Maybe I was insecure. You know, this is the early '90s. If you were a white guy, and you were rapping, that wasn't as accepted yet. I was scared of the quiet Northeast suburbs, so I couldn't embrace my full rapper self.

Charlie Day

#90. Boosie is like the Lebron James when it comes to rapping, so you know if he feels it he's going in, and he gives 100 percent.

B-Real

#91. I definitely use 'smiling while rapping' as a tool in the booth. I want to have fun while recording.

Macklemore

#92. Rappers are usually rapping about knowledge they think people need to get by in the world. If there's no movement that gives the idea that the knowledge people need is how to take over the system, what they see is that people need to know how to hustle; people need to know how to survive.

Boots Riley

#93. I've never been the straight rapper that is going to stand in a cipher and battle all day. I started off battle rapping, but to me, making songs became more important than freestyles ... I've met many rappers who can freestyle but can't make a record.

Queen Latifah

#94. There is no singing anymore, everything is yelling and shouting and rapping and that is real boring to a guy like me.

Sebastian Bach

#95. I started doing shows in places that I couldn't pronounce, didn't know existed, and I've seen people that didn't speak English or Spanish rapping to every lyric and singing to every hook. I said, "This is the type of music that I want to do."

Pitbull

#96. You started rapping when you wasn't good at basketball. I started rapping because I needed Adderall.

Donald Glover

#97. And ever so faintly,I could hear Josh rapping to his posse's beat.I couldn't make out most of what he was saying, but I thought I caught the word prepubescent.

Jennifer Echols

#98. Rapping is a vocal delivery, so you can do it without being part of hip-hop and not knowing what hip-hop is about.

Ice-T

#99. I have done whole projects with Scoop Deville, I like to basically work with a single producer. I always just worked on a bunch of songs, and then put them together, whether it was an EP or another project. None of them were mixtapes where I was rapping over other peoples beats.

Young De

#100. I've been rapping since I was 18 years old, with a crew called Blades.

Abbie Cornish