Rap Music Genre Quotes

The effect that 'Illmatic' had on us at that moment was serious.

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

I couldn't possibly have lived all the things that Ice-T on the records lived.

My kids listen to rap, so I try to keep up with as much as I can.

All the rappers in rave music are like the sloppy seconds of rappers who couldn't make it.

Rapping is competitive. Even someone who is not particularly fond of my music, may claim to be my fan only because he hates Honey Singh.

My influences, going back through the history of rap, talk about Doug E. Fresh, Kool Moe D, Eric B. & Rakim, Public Enemy.

No U.K. rapper has been in my position; there are loads of big rappers like Tinie Tempah or Skepta, but no one has done what I have: had mainstream success with underground music and pop music.

My mother was a - she worked at a halfway house. And one of the former inmates slid me a mix-tape full of different hip-hop songs. And so that was my first kind of experience with rap music.

I've made classic records, and going into making 'R.A.P. Music,' I was determined to top the entire legacy of the 'Pledge' series, and the fact that I won a Grammy, and the fact that I was associated with OutKast, and the fact that I'm a Dungeon Family member.

When I came out rapping on my record, a lot of people said, Oh, you just want to be like Puff.

I look at WorldstarHipHop in the morning, Bossip, Global Grind, and everything in between, but it's all so quick, I don't even think about it. And I've never been a fan of lyrical or socially conscious rap music.

I notice, a lot of white rappers sometimes, they'll feel like they have to be, like, almost aggressive.

The L.A. rap scene is popping again because rappers stopped saying 'West Coast.' Nobody says that anymore. Fans of L.A. music were reaching and saying, 'This is West Coast music,' because nobody else liked it.

Lil B opened up the floodgates for Odd Future, and now rap has a huge Internet culture.

One of the first albums that I remember, rap albums I remember really listening to, was LL Cool J 'Mama Said Knock You Out.'

I was heavily influenced by Melle Mel, Kool Moe Dee, Grandmaster Caz, but I kind of wanted to take it somewhere else.

By the late '80s, I was already giving up on rap music.

Rappers were my storytellers.

I don't know rap. I can't tell you a Tupac song. But you put on some go-go, and I'll know it word-for-word. That's why I feel like I got my own sound - or a D.C. sound.

Future put out nine projects in a row that's all hits. 'Dirty Sprite 2' is one of the best albums ever.