It's funny: I don't listen to too much rap. I don't listen to too much older hip-hop. If I do, it's Ja Rule.
Kehlani
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I got started as a producer first, but really, I feel my beats had more life than anyone could rap on them.
Smokepurpp
LifeFeelMoreFirstProducerRap
One of the things that I'm dying to do is to sing the hook on a big rap song.
Darius Rucker
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I love pop and rap. Bringing those two worlds together is always fun.
Tony Oller
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I grew up on listening to, like, Mantronix and BDP and EPMD and Kool G Rap and Ultramag and Public Enemy and Fat Boys and Run DMC and a lot of those early records, those Rubin-era records. Those were always snare- and stab-heavy records.
El-P
ListeningFatEarlyEnemyRunRap
I did rap when I was a teenager - started rapping when I was nine, and started singing when I was 20. I kinda sing like a rapper would sing.
Mike Posner
SingingRapperRapStartedSingDid
With rap, it's a funny thing. You can say things, and people can take 'em the way they wanna take 'em.
Young Jeezy
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I think if you pick up a microphone and you rap, you're a rapper.
Logic
ThinkYouRapperUpRapMicrophone
I ain't never did no sports. I just always wanted to rap.
Takeoff
SportsNeverAlwaysRapJustDid
I listen to everything - from Sarah McLachlan and Alanis Morissette all the way down to rap like Scarface, UGK and Lauryn Hill.
Jay-Z
DownHillWayListenEverythingRap
You don't want me to sing. I could do a really bad karaoke scene, if I had to, but I'd probably choose to rap.
Rachel Nichols
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I loved Debussy, Stravinsky, Chopin, Tchaikovsky, anything with romantic melodies, especially the nocturnes. Nietzsche was a hero, especially with 'Thus Spoke Zarathustra.' He gets a bad rap; he's very misunderstood. He's a maker of individuals, and he was a teacher of teachers.
Joni Mitchell
TeacherHeroRomanticLovedBadRap
I'll always love rap, no matter what's going on.
Nas
LoveMatterAlwaysRapGoing
There were people who incorporated melody before me, but I would deem myself the first person to successfully rap and sing.
Drake
MyselfPeopleMePersonFirstRap
Consciousness rap - a term that I don't think exactly exists but gets thrown around a lot - is not exactly popular.
Macklemore
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Fruitcakes have a bad rap.
Christina Tosi
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Broccoli gets such a bad rap. This is perplexing to those of us who love that green, treelike, stalky vegetable.
Kate Christensen
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I tried to make a 'When Doves Cry' in a rap version. I used a lot of instruments and I broke it down like I thought Prince would do, and that's the song I sent to Big Boi.
Chuck Inglish
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Rap is just somebody getting something off his chest. That's all it is.
Ice Cube
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Rap actually took root in the Negro community, and then in the Hispanic community, long before it impacted on the larger American community as a whole.
Archie Shepp
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I think Bhutanese food - long dissed by every food writer out there - has gotten a bum rap.
Hanya Yanagihara
FoodThinkLongOutRapWriter
If you look at my rap sheet, it's very long.
Prodigy
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Part of my affinity with urban music comes from being on 'Kids Incorporated,' 'cos we used to sit around and listen to Chaka Khan and Prince, and I got influenced by all that. Then gangsta rap got started, and I was infatuated with that - maybe that's why I'm fascinated by guns.
Fergie
MusicWhyListenGunsGangstaRap
Hackney gets a bit of a bad rap, but it's the only place I've ever lived that felt like a community. I know my neighbours.
Sharon Horgan
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