Famous Quotes & Sayings

Slick Rick

Wassup dear? Sup babe? What street you by? On 5th Bout to hit the West Side High

Slick Rick

Let me spell my name out for you, it's Ricky: R: Ravishing, I: Impress, C: Courageous or Careless, K: for the Kangols which I've got, That I wear everyday and Y: Why not?

Skylar Astin

I loved doing Cee Lo’s Bright Lights in the Big City. That was definitely a favorite of mine, because I love to get all soulful. And a close second would be Flo Rida’s Right Round, because I could rap, which I’ve never really done before.

Snoop Dogg

I used to be focused on being the dopest rapper in the game, and then once that became what I was, I wanted something different, and I wanted to become the best businessman in the game. I wanted to learn how to master the business like I mastered the rap.

Snoop Dogg

I'm not rapping, I'm conversing. It's just a conversation between me and you.

Snoop Dogg

when I make the music that I make, when it comes to reggae music, I engulf the whole spirit of it all. It's just like when I do rap music or whatever style of music I do, I have to engulf the character I do and bring that to life.

Snoop Dogg

It's natural. I freestyle, meaning that I just rap. I might put words on paper, but I just put a beat on my rap, and go off the top of my head. It's something I've been able to do for a long time.

Snoop Dogg

I'm not complicated at all. I say raps that your two-year-old son can learn.

Snoop Dogg

It's Christmas time and my rhyme's steady bumpin. Everybody happy, hair still nappy, Gonna steal a gift for my old grandpappy...

Snoop Dogg

Rollin' down the street, smokin' indo, sippin' on gin an juice Lay back with my mind on my money and my money on my mind.

Snoop Dogg

When I'm not longer rapping, I want to open up an ice cream parlor and call myself Scoop Dogg.

Snoop Dogg

My mind on my money, my money on my mind.

Noel Gallagher

I don't dislike rappers or hip-hop or people who like it. I went to the Def Jam tour in Manchester in the '80s when rap was inspirational. Public Enemy were awesome. But it's all about status and bling now, and it doesn't say anything to me.

Noel Gallagher

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

Nina Simone

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

Theodore Roosevelt

I do not care a rap as to who gets credit for the work, provided the work is done.

Max Roach

They had all this talent, and they had no instruments. So they started rap music. They rhymed on their own. They made their own sounds and their own movements.

Max Greenfield

I think L.A. gets a bad rap. L.A. is the same as everywhere else.

Meek Mill

I don't think I would change really anything about rap. Rap don't have no limits to it, and I like it like that.

Meek Mill

You could be Top 5 on iTunes, but for people to buy an album, they've got to have a connection with an artist. Every time I bought someone's album, it was about the connection. I was loving everything, from their raps to their style. I wanted to meet them.

Meek Mill

I always wanted to be one of the hottest rappers.

Meek Mill

I don't want to just be fully rapping my whole life.

Meek Mill

I've always been rapping before I was making money off of it. Before I made a profit, I had always been rapping.

Meek Mill

I don't wear the see-through shirts or anything too glittery. I come from that '90s school of rap. Fitted caps, because I got a big head, so snapbacks don't fit me right.

Lauryn Hill

We think the man with the best rap will protect and save us, but it's not usually that way. Love is something deeper and purer.

Lauryn Hill

So while you're imitating Al Capone, I'll be Nina Simone, And defacating on your microphone

Lauryn Hill

Consequence is no coincidence.

Lauryn Hill

Let me break it down for you again, You know I only say it because I'm truly genuine: Don't be a hard rock when you really are a gem.

Lauryn Hill

You might win some, but you just lost one.

Lauryn Hill

I know you don't wanna hear my opinion, There come many paths and you must choose one. And if you don't change then the rain soon come. See, you might win some, but you just lost one.

Namie Amuro

I'm not completely at ease at rapping, I can't do it well yet.

Missy Elliot

The rapping is cool, but my lines aren't all that fly. People like Biggie Smalls or Jay-Z who say stuff that you have to rewind and listen to twice and be like, "Wow, what made them say that?" or "I would have never thought about saying that" - those are rappers I really look up to. As far as flows, I can give you flows all day.

Nicki Minaj

I feel like when I reach my 500-million-dollar goal, then no other woman in rap will ever feel like they can't do what these men have done