575 Quotes About Rap

Clearly, everybody knows I can rap; I can freestyle all day.

I don't have any sympathy for the subject matter, [but] I have great respect for rap artists. In fact, not for the rap artists, but the people who make the music over which they rap. Rap music - the music itself is incredible - but [the people that make the music] are hardly ever credited.

It's weak to speak and blame somebody else ...When you destroy yourself.

These days you can't see who's in cahoots, Cause now the KKK wears three-piece suits.

No matter what the name, we're all the same pieces in one big chess game.

I got a letter from the government the other day I opened and read it...it said they were suckers.

All I want is peace and love on this planet. Ain't that how God planned it?

Public Enemy started out as a benchmark in rap music in the mid-1980s. We felt there was a need to actually progress the music and say something because we were slightly older than the demographic of rap artists at the time. It was a time of heightened rightwing politics, so the climate dictated the direction of the group.

We were coming out of the black community with this thing called rap music, which was basically black men yelling at the top of their lungs about what we liked and what we didn't like. It was disturbing to the status quo. It really shook things up. And those in power didn't know what to make of us, but they knew that we had to be silenced, stopped in any way from expressing our outrage.