Rap Sayings and Quotes

Below you will find our collection of inspirational, wise, and humorous old rap quotes, rap sayings, and rap proverbs, collected over the years from a variety of sources.

Rappers spit rhymes that are mostly illegal, MC's spit rhymes to uplift their people. KRS-One
Rap is an art, you can't own no loops. It's how you hook ‘em up and the rhyme style, troop. So don't even think you could say someone bit off your weak beat, come on, you need to quit. Guru
I'm fascinated by rap and by hip-hop. I think there's a lot of poetry in it. There's a lot of anger, a lot of social energy in it. And I think you'd better listen to it pretty carefully, 'cause it's important. John F. Kerry
If we're all saying that rap is an art form 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 them die, it just matters that you didn't save them. Tupac Shakur
I'm also not going to explain something just because I said it in a rap. Take what you want from it. Azealia Banks
Love yourself and your expression, you can't go wrong. KRS-One
I am a nightmare walking, psychopath talking, King of my jungle, just a gangster stalking. Ice-T
Gangsta rap is a derogatory label. Coolio
You could name practically any problem in the hood and there'd be a rap song for you. Jay-Z
When you do rap albums, you got to train yourself. You got to constantly be in character. Tupac Shakur
Rap is poetry to music, like beatniks without beards and bongos. David Lee Roth
Well I'm a sire, I set the microphone on fire, Rap styles vary, and carry like Mariah. Inspectah Deck
No one can identify the uninformed until they voice their ignorance about a topic. Silence is a fool's best friend. Sadly, he is often too foolish to realize it. Carlos Wallace
If you want to say something profound, writing from your heartbeat is different than writing from the loud voices you get from music. If they're rapping from noise, it's about robbing people. It's that simple. Russell Simmons
I am a gangsta, Ms. Katie. I don't take nothing from no one. I do what I wanna do. Lil Wayne
I'm expressin' with my full capabilities, and now I'm livin in correctional facilities. Cause some don't agree with how I do this, I get straight and meditate like a Buddhist. Dr. Dre
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
Rap has been a path between cultures in the best tradition of popular music. Jay-Z
Personally, I just think rap music is the best thing out there, period. If you look at my deck in my car radio, you're always going to find a hip-hop tape; that's all I buy, that's all I live, that's all I listen to, that's all I love. Eminem
Responding to criticisms that rap music is a source of racist speech, one newspaper headline asked this question: 'Is hip-hop getting a bum rap?' Elizabeth G. Thornburg
I hate it when the very folks who should be listening to rap music are attacking it so hard they miss the point. The point is that children and the neighborhoods—the whole country—are drowning in violence. Stevie Wonder
Rap is teaching white kids what it means to be black, and that causes a problem for the infrastructure. Chuck D.
Rap is like the polio vaccine. At first, no one believed in it. Then once they knew it worked, everyone wanted it. Grandmaster Flash
I hate rap music, which to me sounds like a bunch of angry men shouting, possibly because the person who was supposed to provide them with a melody never showed up. Dave Barry
Rap music...sounds like somebody feeding a rhyming dictionary to a popcorn popper. Tom Robbins
I often thought that if there had been a good rap group around in those days, I might have chosen a career in music instead of politics. Richard M. Nixon
Rap and hip hop are about bringing people together to your neighborhood and talking about what happens there. Rapper Ludacris- Brian Bridges
Rap is poetry set to music. But to me, it's like a jackhammer. Bette Midler
if it reads like a rap / then it reads like a rhyme, / does that mean always rhyme is rap, / of course it isn't it's less than that. Trim
you can't make your heart beat something it won't / it's either heaven or hell now I got a good story to tell / rap your rap well from the heart / this will light the inner spark to what I'm waiting for. Mario William Vitale