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’...

I want to be able to say that a rap career could be ten albums.

What I like most about rap and hip-hop is its authenticity, and what this movie lacked was authenticity. … I wasn’t believing him as him. It’s not a disaster, but it’s certainly a missed opportunity.

I’m gonna try and change the course of hip hop again.

When hip-hop was born she had no commercial home, and was an invention of beautiful creativity. Born from a beautiful struggle, today she is mostly a ‘ratchet’ bitch spitting nonsense from her pimp’s mansion.

I think that rap is narrative, when it’s done right.

I’m a hustler, baby; I sell water to a well!

We have groups that do that, but I can’t rap with the mentality of an 18 year old when I’m in my 30’s.

A lot of the music, and especially rap, I don’t understand.

My life’s all I got and Heaven is all in my brain, and when I feel I’m in Hell my ideas are what get me through pain.

Rap in its form is poetry, meaning the point of convergence is words.

A lot of rap songs don’t usually have a lot of melody per se.

Jay-Z and Kanye West are to authentic rap culture what diseased rates were to 14th century Europeans

If you believe that I’m a cop killer, you believe David Bowie is an astronaut.

If we’re all saying that rap is an artform then we gotta be more responsible for our lyrics. If you see everybody dying because of what you’re saying, it don’t matter that you didn’t make...

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.