Rap Quotes

“It ain't no fun if the homies can't have none. ”
― Snoop Dogg

“Only God can judge me.”
― Tupac Shakur, The Rose That Grew from Concrete

“Oh shit did you just dis the feminine gender
I'll pummel your ass then stick you in a blender
You think I like Tori and Ani so I can't rhyme
But I got flow like Ghostbusters got slime
Objectify women and it's fuckin' on
You'll be dead and gone like ancient Babylon.”
― John Green, Looking for Alaska

“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, Decoded

“I'm not a businessman, I'm a business, man!”
― Jay-Z

“The art of rap is deceptive. It seems so straightforward and personal and real that people read it completely literally, as raw testimony or autobiography. And sometimes the words we use, nigga, bitch, motherfucker, and the violence of the images overwhelms some listeners. It's all white noise to them till they hear a bitch or a nigga and then they run off yelling "See!" and feel vindicated in their narrow conception of what the music is about.”
― Jay-Z, Decoded

“I'm a hustler, baby; I sell water to a well!”
― Jay-Z

“You know the type: loud as a motorbike but wouldn't bust a grape in a fruit fight.”
― Jay-Z

“Yeah, my life a bitch, but you know nothing about her
Been to hell and back, I can show you vouchers”
― lil wayne

“Love yourself and your expression, you can't go wrong.”
― KRS-One

“If you believe that I'm a cop killer, you believe David Bowie is an astronaut.”
― Ice-T

“You could name practically any problem in the hood and there'd be a rap song for you.”
― Jay-Z, Decoded

“Grandchildren now don't write a thank you for the Christmas presents. They are walking on their pants with their cap on backward, listening to the Enema Man and Snoopy, Snoopy Poop Dog.”
― Alan Simpson

“Bitches ain't shit, and they ain't sayin' nuthin'. A hundred muthafuckas can't tell me nuthin'.”
― Nicki Minaj

“Rap has been a path between cultures in the best tradition of popular music.”
― Jay-Z, Decoded

“Oh my God Becky! Look at her butt! Tunechi”
― Lil Wayne

“And all you other cats throwin' shots at Jigga, | You only get half a bar: fuck y'all niggaz.”
― Jay-Z

“Frankly, I don't feel the fire anymore from the youth. I miss my era when motherfuckers were fighting for shit, spitting fire in their lyrics.”
― Ice-T, Ice: A Memoir of Gangster Life and Redemption—from South Central to Hollywood

“A digital sound sample in angry rap doesn't correspond to the graffiti but the wall.”
― Jaron Lanier, You Are Not a Gadget

“Cry me a river, you just got no skills”
― AGUST D

“But he played music so loudly he could not hear his pain. He stunted his growth beneath a bass that decorated his aura and lyrics that hardened the glass parts of him. He was indeed an autumn leaf dipped in concrete. He wanted sound, any sound but his own thoughts. Ears that needed songs louder than the mind were ears afraid of what they might hear inside.”
― Karl Kristian Flores, A Happy Ghost

“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, Ice: A Memoir of Gangster Life and Redemption—from South Central to Hollywood

“On a mission, your worst enemy is idle time”
― Nipsey Hussle

“I’m a project manager by day and a rapper by night, but it’s all fading into the morning,
because I’m tearing off my shades and walking into the light.”
― Aaron Kyle Andresen, How Dad Found Himself in the Padded Room: A Bipolar Father's Gift For The World

“Serio famous quote and song lyrics...

"I'm not a follower, I am the Leader.
I'm not a student, I am the Teacher.
I'm not a fellowship, I am the Preacher.”
― Serio, The Cure To Recidivism

“Das Auswählen junger Frauen scheint genreunabhängig – im Rap, aber auch im Pop oder Rock �� so gängig zu sein, dass es in der Branche feststehende Begriffe
dafür gibt.”
― Lena Kampf, Row Zero: Gewalt und Machtmissbrauch in der Musikindustrie

“Einschüchterungen, Gewaltandrohungen, ein tätlicher Angriff – es ist ganz offensichtlich nicht ungefährlich, sich mit den mutmaßlichen
Opfern sexualisierter Gewalt im Deutschrap zu solidarisieren.”
― Lena Kampf, Row Zero: Gewalt und Machtmissbrauch in der Musikindustrie

“Straighten up your posture and walk
‘Cause in the end you’re unstoppable
Stand up wherever you go
You’ll make it with no trouble”
― Stray Kids

“Winning every league in my sleep
Cause I make my dreams all a reality
Feeling like a beast at the peak
Cause I finna create my trees of integrity
Engineering fights, going melee
Legendary like Tiger JK
Grab another pint on a payday
Mayday! Mayday!
Dance in my heyday!”
― 3RACHA

“The only thing predictable about life is
It’s unpredictability
Anyone can be anything
You can be everything”
― Han Jisung