I’m trying to be a better gangsta, so I’m learning how to play the ukulele. I’m also trying to figure out how to rap a romance novel, like The Notebook.

Rap is supposed to motivate, humours, address societal issues & personal feelings, and also liberate me through art, not insult our women.

Music can kind of make you one-dimensional. People see what’s on the surface and what you rap about, and they make their decision on who you are from there.

These guys have to be out there, in some of the worst and wildest places. In rap, just doing what it takes to be well-known puts you at risk.

I rap. I also wrap. It’s a gift I have.

GodWhen I was alone, and had nothingI asked for a friend to help me bear the painNo one came, except GodWhen I needed a breath to rise, from my sleepNo one could help me.. except...

A digital sound sample in angry rap doesn’t correspond to the graffiti but the wall.

Rap is simply more compelling in a club or on disc or video. I don’t want to be too harsh on them, but how exciting is it to see a guy with a microphone onstage...

I don’t understand what the bad rap was about. He’s a really good dude as far as what I’ve seen.

You can be the ugliest man in the world but once you got money, you can have all the women in the world.

Things just ain’t the same for gangsters.

Right now, it is it is almost.. it is almost uhh, IMPOSSIBLE for you not to see how strong rap has gottenY’knowhatI’msayin, it’s it’s like umm..our our brothers and sisters, our youths, and some of...

I haven’t done rap… I can’t do that too well.

What if there were health food stores on every corner in the hood, instead of liquor stores!?

Life’s a maze, you twist and you turn through itThe driest of droughts, maneuvered and I earned through it

Fear not of men because men must die. Mind over matter and soul before flesh.

I’m still on top of the game. Still droppin’ flames. Still cock and aim.

It ain’t no fun if the homies can’t have none.

I couldn’t do rap. I was trying. I don’t know how. I’m not good enough to know.

I am looking to get into the grime rap U.K. scene.

You don’t have to be a good singer any more if you can rap well.

My son is a huge rap fan. My daughter is more rap/alternative/pop.

Ya’ll know me, still the same ole G. But I been low key.

I think rap definitely has its place in the art world. I think it is an art form. But, just like any art form, you can misuse it.

A poet’s mission is to make words do more work than they normally do, to make them work on more than one level.

He was talking about my hands and how I should receive the ball. The rap on me is my throwing. He said he is going to make me an accurate thrower to second base. I...

I’ll dance to anything: Bob Marley or rap.

Bitches ain’t shit, and they ain’t sayin’ nuthin’. A hundred muthafuckas can’t tell me nuthin’.

Over 80 million records sold and I ain’t got to do it with tens or eleven year olds.

I love rap.

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

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

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,...

He was a rap producer, and then he was producing rock with some alternative bands. I just didn’t understand how I fit into that thing. But Bob Dylan’s manager, who I know, called me and...

I wanted to be sure that my donation did two things: went directly into the hands of hurricane victims and that it was an amount that could really impact their lives and make a difference,

The rap on him coming out, talking with some of the other tight end coaches in the league, they questioned his hands and I was glad they did. I had my eyes on him from...

Rap has been a path between cultures in the best tradition of popular music.

I don’t like rap that you can’t understand. The youth is so quick and alert.

I don’t have to put out another rap record. I can do it at my casual pace.

I go to a lot of stand-up comedy. I find more inspiration from observational stuff than from rap.

I wanted to be sure that my donation went directly into the hands of hurricane victims,

What I’m trying to do is break the genre from what is rap and what is music.

I’m not a businessman, I’m a business, man!

With rap, it’s a funny thing. You can say things, and people can take ’em the way they wanna take ’em.

You have to come in on a professional level to make it, otherwise you just can’t get into rap.

I’ll always love rap, no matter what’s going on.

If there were no guns, we couldn’t talk about it… You turn on TV, you see soldiers marching with guns. We only talk about things that’s happening.

Hopeful dreams – even where crack kings’ and dope fiends feast. Dust from the ash and rubble; they shine like bright stars once the mic is gripped and the bars are spit.

Rap is rhythm and poetry. Hip-hop is storytelling and poetry as well.

To me, its just a word, a word whose power is owned by the user and his or her intention. People give words power, so banning a word is futile, really. ‘Nigga’ becomes ‘porch monkey’...