Quotes by Rap I said, 'What you wanna be?' She said, 'Alive.' Andre Benjamin rap eye thinking Everybody's got opinions on the way you're livin', Andre Benjamin shoes rap hip-hop I bet you never heard of a playa with no game, Told the truth to get what I want, but shot it with no shame. Take this music dead serious while others entertain. I see they makin' they paper so I guess I can't complain...or can I? I feel they disrespectin' the whole thang. Them hooks like sellin' dope to black folks, And I choke when the food they serve ain't tastin' right, My stomach can't digest it even when I bless it. Andre Benjamin dope rap games I'm a thinker; I think too much. So for me to freestyle rap, it's like I'm thinking three, four time steps ahead, and I hate it. Andre Benjamin rap hate thinking I met a gypsy and she hipped me to some life game, Andre Benjamin rap cutting baby You download it for free, we get charged back for it. Andre Benjamin rap couple jobs They can bite, but cannot be us, Andre Benjamin rap running trying Askin what happened to the feelin that her and me had, Andre Benjamin knees rap needs I live by the beat like you live check to check. Andre Benjamin rap feet moving Your white tee, well to me, looks like a nightgown; Andre Benjamin rap white two The rap game has to save itself. Everybody's saving it. People like Lil Wayne is saving it. He's bringing energy to it. Andre Benjamin rap games people 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 rap artist order While also, importantly, not wanting to dumb it down or pretend the days of 'difficult' poetry are over, because we live in a pluralist culture and there's room for 'difficult' poetry alongside rap and everything else. And poetry won't be for everyone, but everyone should have the choice. Andrew Motion rap choices should-have I don't want to rap about my car. How generic is that? Be creative. Andy Milonakis car rap creative I've been a Hip-Hop head forever. So when it turned out that we were gonna start getting celebrity guests for every show, I wanted rap guys from the get-go. Andy Milonakis rap hip-hop guy Kids who are least impressive in my class are the ones who only listen to one kind of music. They only listen to country or only to rap or to gospel or anything. It's a sad thing. I try really hard to get them to go out and listen to things. It's amazing what you learn. ... I'm still trying to learn. It's not like I'm going to be a calypso singer. That's not going to happen, but I'm sure there's something in that, that I can learn from and apply to my own work. Andy Wilkinson rap writing country I don't even really like rap music. Angel Haze rap-music rap Not only the brothers on the street but the middle class brothers are also identifying with the gangster rappers because of the extent to which this music circulates. It becomes possible for the - not only the young middle class men, but it becomes possible for young middle class white men and young men of other racial communities to identify with the misogyny of gangster rap. Angela Davis rap brother men Imagine the first time you are about to rap in a studio and you find yourself in a booth with Redman and KRS! Angie Martinez finding-yourself rap firsts Fifty years ago, teachers said their top discipline problems were talking, chewing gum, making noise, and running in the halls. The current list, by contrast, sounds like a cross between a rap sheet and the seven deadly sins. Anna Quindlen rap running teacher «1234567891011»