Top 38 Street Rap Quotes
#1. Heavenly Father has a picture of you on His dresser. He loves you and will help you. Call upon Him.
Thomas S. Monson
#2. Jewish persecution is a historical memory of the present generation and people fear it in the present day, and that's why those references are so much more powerful. I just understand that better now.
Gregg Easterbrook
#4. My conception of New York City came from rap music. I envisioned it as a place where people shot each other on the street and got away with it; no one walked on the streets, rather people drove in their sports cars looking for nightclubs and for violence.
Ishmael Beah
#5. I think rap in the street when they have rap competitions is thrilling because these kids are making it up and having a go at each other. They've got something to say. This is about getting their frustrations out.
Nigel Lythgoe
#6. My music is pretty honest. I can't rap on science fiction. Punk is from the street.
Rick James
#7. Rap is hardcore street music but there are women out there who can hang with the best male rappers. What holds us back is that girls tend to rap in these high, squeaky voices. It's irritating. You've gotta rap from the diaphragm.
Cheryl James
#8. 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
#9. I claim we got a hell of a beating. We got run out of Burma and it is as humiliating as hell. I think we ought to find out what caused it, go back and retake it.
Joseph Stilwell
#10. My radio, believe me, I like it loud,
I'm the man with a box that can rock the crowd.
Walkin' down the street, to the hardcore beat
While my JVC vibrates the concrete.
LL Cool J
#11. T to the R-uh-O-Y, how did you and I meet?
In front of Big Lou's, fighting in the street
But only you saw what took many time to see
I dedicate this to you for believing in me.
C.L. Smooth
#12. Artists are the only people in the world who really live. The others have to hope for heaven.
John French Sloan
#13. Everybody's a train wreck in their own very special way. But there's something wildly freeing about someone who's unapologetic, who knows they're a wreck and doesn't even try to hide it, just bulldozes through life.
Melissa McCarthy
#14. I looked at the rap community like street kids wanting their own brand. But now I look at that period with the rappers in the 90s as a trend of the moment. What it taught me was never to follow a trend, because trends move on.
Tommy Hilfiger
#15. Hip-hop was my first audience - I would rap in the mirror, walk down the street and listen to my Walkman.
Derek Luke
#16. With rap music, because it's all so on the street, you get treated like a street cat: "All right, you've been eatin' enough, you're fat, get out of the way now and let somebody else come by."
Nas
#17. Rap started on the street, and religion is everywhere, even on the streets.
Ebony A. Utley
#18. On a park bench on 12th street, my whole crew's famous, you try bust your gat and keep it rel but you nameless
Prodigy
#19. The search is more important than the destination
A.R. Rahman
#20. That became the signature Ice-T style - rhymes that were "topical" and "vividly optical." To me it was street-level journalism, real-life observations told in poetry. That's the vision I tried to bring to all my recordings.
Ice-T
#21. I want a girl with extensions in her hair,
Bamboo earrings, at least two pair,
A Fendi bag and a bad attitude,
That's all I need to get me in a good mood.
She can walk with a switch and talk with street slang,
I love it when a woman ain't scared to do her thing.
LL Cool J
#22. Yes, Yes Yall, You know we talkin it all see how we bringing the street corner to Cargenie hall
Busta Rhymes
#23. These niggaz ain't thugs, the real thugs is the government.
Don't matter if you Independent, Democrat or Republican,
Niggaz politickin' the street, get into beef,
Start blastin' ... now a new cat is executive chief.
Talib Kweli
#24. Wake up: all of that 'crack in the street' talk?
It's made up, like 'Jack and the Beanstalk.'
Sean Price
#25. But has there ever, in all of recorded human history, been an interrogation that has gone on, day in and day out, for more than six years?
Mohamedou Ould Slahi
#26. Street's disciple, my raps are trifle.
I shoot slugs from my brain just like a rifle.
Nas
#27. Nowadays, you gots ta walk the street and watch your back,
Cause brothers with the gats don't be knowin' how to act.
Shyheim
#28. 'Matisse and Picasso' is a little like Plato after Socrates. Socrates only taught in words. He didn't write. And after that, you had Plato and Aristotle to write about what he had said. I write about them because they didn't write about them.
Francoise Gilot
#29. Now 4th street park after dark is dangerous, might get clapped, if you look strange to us
Heavy D
#31. The rhyme pad was a spell book - it summoned asphalt elementals, elder gods, and weeping ancestors, all of whom had your back.
Ta-Nehisi Coates
#32. Rollin' down the street, smokin' indo, sippin' on gin an juice
Lay back with my mind on my money and my money on my mind.
Snoop Dogg
#33. We come from the days when rap used to agitate the mainstream. Now it's more buddy-buddy. That doesn't sit well with me. So what we need is [a bit more] street politics, bringing up issues, agitating you a little bit. And nothing can agitate you more now than a terrorist threat.
Ice Cube
#34. The greatest danger hanging over our children and grandchildren is initiation of changes that will be irreversible on any time scale that humans can imagine.
James Hansen
#36. Everything I do is going to be gangsta rap, street based, street oriented ... I'm from Gary, Indiana, and everybody's damn near at the poverty level.
Freddie Gibbs
#37. Never been to Sesame Street but I flip a Big Bird.
And I know "stealers" and they not from Pittsburgh ...
Cam'ron
#38. I am always going to do my best, no matter where I am.
Will Rogers
