rap

It ain't no fun if the homies can't have none.

It's bad poetry executed by people that can't sing. That's my definition of Rap.

If I have a rap album I'm dropping, then I want it to be the best rap album.

I started DJing, breakdancing and MCing in the '70s and I got my record deal in 1979 with 'Christmas Rap.'

I don't give a fuck, God sent me to piss the world off.

I'm a hustler, baby; I sell water to a well!

A poet's mission is to make words do more work than they normally do, to make them work on more than one level.

I know one thing for sho Heaven__ gotta have a ghettoCuz where else in death do I get to go?

Some men are born to be good some born to be badAs for me I only came with just a pen ___ a pad.

To me, its just a word, a word whose power is owned by the user and his or her intention. People give words power, so banning a word is futile, really. 'Nigga' becomes 'porch monkey' becomes 'coon' and so on if that's what's in a person's heart. They key is to change the person. And we change people through conversation, not through censorship.

If you believe that I'm a cop killer, you believe David Bowie is an astronaut.

I want to marry his smile, and if his smile is already married to someone else, then I want to marry his eyebrows and eyes. They're remarkable. Nobody's ever made better use of his or her eyes or eyebrows as a rapper than Kurtis Blow.

Women are women: the most beautiful creatures, I love and respect. But hoes and tricks, gets slapped with dicks and that's with no regret.

Cuz even a gangsta rapper can find redemptionFor the sins committed before revelation.

Jay-Z and Kanye West are to authentic rap culture what diseased rates were to 14th century Europeans

When hip-hop was born she had no commercial home, and was an invention of beautiful creativity. Born from a beautiful struggle, today she is mostly a 'ratchet' bitch spitting nonsense from her pimp's mansion.