People who go out and try to be a rebel at night, Try to make up for the fact that they settled in life.

Just because no one can understand how you speak, Don't necessarily mean that what you be sayin is deep.

I'm not a good dancer but Rap Monster is really terrible at it. The two of us are ultimate dance rivals.

I'm changing every day as far as this rap thing. I'm learning new things. I'm getting bigger by the day.

Believers of Jesus be denouncing Satan on every level, But every Halloween they're dressin' like devils.

I'm a weird big guy. Doing rapping, doing movies. Do a lot of stuff. But always do things the right way.

...in the middle of Little Italy little did we know that we riddled some middleman who didn't do diddily

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

Rap is only one end of a whole spectrum of verbal play and virtuosity. Rap is geared for aural pleasure.

If you're a conscious rap artist and you're worried about Billboard charts, you're gonna have a problem.

I listen a lot to rap, and I'm inspired to take it, to use it in another way, to get the message across.

People really listen to your lyrics if you rap. So, I had to make sure that they were clear and concise.

Shorty, let me tell you about my only vice: It has to do with lots of lovin', and it ain't nuttin' nice.

I wanna live like Arnold, Willis and Mr. Drummond... And keep my paper sturdy, big birds and tight herbs.

Hip-hop was my first audience - I would rap in the mirror, walk down the street and listen to my Walkman.

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

The greats weren't great because at birth they could paint The greats were great because they paint a lot

I wake you up and as I stare in your face, you seem stunned. Remember me? The one you got your idea from?

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

Your white tee, well to me, looks like a nightgown; Make your mama proud, take that thing two sizes down.

So I don't only watch my back, I watch my front, Cause it's the niggaz who front, they be pulling stunts!

158 Lewis Avenue between Lafayette and Van Buren, that was back durin days of hangin' on my bed-stuy block

In time, you'll see a thin line between friend and rival. Between you and me: stupidity and men's bravado.

Now that Bin Laden dead, can we get our civil liberties back? That George Bush stole with the Patriot Act?

I almost got my degree so I don't need rap. And my family is the furthest thing in the world from musical.

And when we holdin' a Tec, we put a hole in your neck. Equippin' you with a permanent T-Pain vocal effect.

We culture. Rap is the new rock 'n roll. We the rockstars. It's been like that for a minute, Hedi Slimane!

The greatest trick that the devil ever pulled Was convincing women that they looked Better in their makeup

Footballs, basketballs, microphones, gas and grass... Just some of the few things that J-Ro likes to pass.

This year Halloween fell on a weekend Me and Geto Boys are trick-or-treatin' Robbin' little kids for bags.

Anything that's of any use, famous people get hold of it and take it for themselves and it gets a bad rap.

I started DJing, breakdancing and MCing in the '70s and I got my record deal in 1979 with 'Christmas Rap.'

What you base your happiness around? Material, women, and large paper? That means you inferior, not major.

I wonder if these wack niggas realize they wack, And they the reason that my people say they tired of rap.

Once in awhile, I'mma cheat and get dome, But best believe that I'mma always come home. Shorty, I luv you.

In this life ain't no happy endings; Only pure beginnings followed by years of sinning and fake repentance.

Your new CD is a weed plate, nothin' but love songs, 100% pure garbage, just something to break up buds on.

My brother is 10 years older than me, so whatever he listened to is what I listened to, and it was all rap.

Only in America could you find a way to make a healthy buck, And still keep your attitude on self-destruct.

Before rap came along, I was, actually, actively in the streets; getting in trouble, doing the wrong thing.

I'd rather make one righteous dollar on my level Than make a million dollars spittin' rhymes for the devil.

Yo, you don't think you're going under? I got a bullet with your name, your address, and your phone number.

They say sleep is the cousin of death, guess we related... Cause I'm the most slept on, and the most hated.

Escapist literature gets a bad rap. But I think escape is important for a lot of people in a lot of places.

Not even battling but just really known for rapping. Like I had songs up on Soundclick first, take it back.

I know some very political people who rap, and they say very political things and they'll never get a deal.

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.

You would think I would recycle by the way I found my last chick...cause all she wants is paper or plastic.

Not everyone agrees on music. Some people like rap, some like country - it's all an opinion. F the critics.

Reality is nourishment, but people don't believe it, I guess it's hard to stomach the truth like a bulimic.

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