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Tag Name "Rap" (574)

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Rap is poetry set to music. But to me it's like a jackhammer.
Bette Midler
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Rap is hardcore street music but there are women out there who can hang with the best male rappers. What holds us back is that girls tend to rap in these high, squeaky voices. It's irritating. You've gotta rap from the diaphragm.
Cheryl James
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Rap comes from the humble beginnings of rebelling against the status quo. Now, rappers have become the status quo themselves. You can't rebel against the Queen and then become the Queen yourself. I attribute much of the blame to testosterone-male dominance and patriarchy.
Chuck D
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Rap music's been around for too long now to be inspirational. The words are, but the music isn't.
Alexander McQueen
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Rap isn't poetry, not least because it involves music and often other elements that aren't words. But the way poets in English use things like rhyme and meter, and the ways these conventions both do and don't apply to rap we try to lay out the rules for rap, in order to understand the techniques that artists like Jay-Z and Kanye employ.
Andrew Hoberek
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Rap is just a movement within the larger culture of hip-hop.
Cornel West
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Rap in general has never been my steez, but I like it.
Kesha
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Rapping about a surgery is something that makes sense for me to do.
Lazarus of Bethany
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Rap's the occupation, but one day watch I'll be Pimp of the Nation.
Kid Rock
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Rap's conscious response to the poverty and oppression of U.S. blacks is like some hideous parody of sixties black pride.
David Foster Wallace
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Rap is still an art, and no-one's from the Old School Cuz rap is still a brand-new tool
KRS-One
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Rap was forbidden with the people who were interviewing us and the shows that I was getting [booked on], and I had kind of crossed over. So Jerry [Heller, who managed N.W.A.] would tell me, 'Do not say you're a rapper, always say you're R&B.'
Michel'le
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Rap music is the only vital form of music introduced since punk rock.
Kurt Cobain
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Rap is the number one most influential thing, it's the only genre that really strikes a chord. When you sing, you feel a certain way and it makes you feel good, but when you rap, it just strikes a chord a whole different way.
Tyga
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Rap to me is a modern blues. But until we really confront the truth, we are going to have a Tupac or Eminem or Biggie Smalls to remind us about it - and thank God.
Stevie Wonder
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Rap records don't make you feel good no more. Six months after release, it can't come back as a classic
Wyclef Jean
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Rap is rock 'n' roll. Rock is when you push the buttons in the system when you say, I'm not going along with what you're saying. That's rock, whether it's done with guitars, or it's done with just beats.
Ice T
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Rapping is a vocal delivery, so you can do it without being part of hip-hop and not knowing what hip-hop is about.
Ice T
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Rap is not pop, if you call it that then stop...
Q-Tip
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Rap will never be the same as before
Eminem
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Rap is only one end of a whole spectrum of verbal play and virtuosity. Rap is geared for aural pleasure.
Rita Dove
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Rap music is a combination of many different arts to make something new. There's always been a stigma that its existence would be short and only appeal to a certain group - but it's the biggest music in the world.
Chance the Rapper
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Rappers act so wild, and love to profile, Frontin' hard, but ain't got no style.
Big Daddy Kane
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Rap is rhythm and poetry. Hip-hop is storytelling and poetry as well.
Ajay Naidu
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