Rap Quotes

“I want to marry his smile, and if his smile is already married to someone else, then I want to marry his eyebrows and eyes. They're remarkable. Nobody's ever made better use of his or her eyes or eyebrows as a rapper than Kurtis Blow.”

“I don't like rap music at all. I don't think it's music. It's just a beat and rapping.”

“It's bad poetry executed by people that can't sing. That's my definition of Rap.”

“The dull pulse-like beat started at eleven o’clock at night. It was a new kind of music called ‘rap’. It baffled Ananda even more than disco. He had puzzled and puzzled over why people would want to listen and even move their bodies to an angry, insistent onrush of words – words that rhymed, apparently, but had no echo or afterlife. It was as if they were an extension of the body: never had words sounded so alarmingly physical, and pure physicality lacks empathy, it’s machine-like.”

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

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

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

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

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