Rap Radio Quotes & Sayings

The practice of our democracy depends on a sense of, and knowledge of, history in the same way that playing in the World Series requires a bat and a ball. — Lewis H. Lapham

There is a god somewhere that is angry because we're combining stuff like Cutty Sark with fifty-year-old Laphroaig, — John Ringo

The law of self-destruction and the law of self-preservation are equally strong in mankind! — Fyodor Dostoyevsky

When Ke$ha tries to rap like L'Trimm, she sounds like any ordinary lonely teenage girl stuck in a nowhere town, singing along to her radio and dreaming of a party where she's the star. Ke$ha's greatness is that in her voice, you can hear both the loser girl and the star. All hail the Queen of Noi$e! — Rob Sheffield

Life is not about having and getting. It's about being and becoming. — Myrna Loy

Don't make me angry-kiss you. — Rainbow Rowell

Going to radio with a rap record prior to going to the consumer is like having no foreplay with your girlfriend. — Lyor Cohen

The radio is just a stereo like a house ain't a home. — Jay Electronica

God comes alongside us when we go through hard times, and before you know it, he brings us alongside someone else who is going through hard times so that we can be there for that person just as God was there for us.-2 Corinthians 1:4 — Eugene H. Peterson

I try to make everything I write a little bit different. Those songs that go, 'I love you so much and you love me,' they're boring. If I'm going to write a love song, it's going to be a little bit tortuous. — Jane Wiedlin

My radio, believe me, I like it loud,
I'm the man with a box that can rock the crowd.
Walkin' down the street, to the hardcore beat
While my JVC vibrates the concrete. — LL Cool J

I grew up in the suburbs and was raised on rap radio, so it took me a long time to stumble upon the acoustic guitar as a resource for anything. — Cass McCombs

MCs get a little bit of love and think they hot,
Talkin bout how much money they got ... all y'all records sound the same.
I'm sick of that fake thug, R&B-rap scenario, all day on the radio,
Same scenes in the video, monotonous material.
... Y'all don't hear me though:
These record labels slang our tapes like dope.
You can be next in line and signed, and still be writing rhymes and broke. — Stic.man

There were some low moments out there on the road tonight - abandonment and what's the point? - but then I pulled in a radio station from Albuquerque playing historical rap and breakdance circa 1982. Kurtis Blow and disco synthesizers made me feel like I could drive all night. — Chris Kraus

For the curse of Cain, the curse of being an outcast and a wanderer over the face of the earth has been removed ... — Abba Hillel Silver

And I ... started off dumb, raised by the hoodrats, listen to the radio wishin that i could rap. — Tupac Shakur

Successful writers learn at last what they should learn at first,
to be intelligently simple. — Josh Billings

Lyrics are weak, like clock radio speakers. — GZA

The whole world has changed much since the '80's. In the united States, rap music and country music dominate radio and that certainly wasn't the case in the early '80's. — Sheena Easton

My favorite song is Eminem's 'Rap God.' That joint is just incredible, It's six-and-a-half minutes of him just crushing the whole game. It's so different from what I hear if I listen to the radio. — Mekhi Phifer

I think stuff on the radio is mostly good, but it's just not what I'm into. I'm not into rap metal. — Jon Crosby

I stick to the script, I memorize the lines, cause life is movie that I've seen too many times. — Lil' Wayne

They were two halves that together formed a magical whole. — Dick Button

For me, I like old-school rap music. There was a time when music was so, so rich overall, and the content of what people talked about was so deep on every level, song-for-song, pound-for-pound, and on radio, there was so much content. I gravitate more towards that type of music, to be honest. — Ciara

My radio's loud like a fire alarm:
The floor vibrates, the walls cave in,
The bass makes my eardrums seem thin.
Def sounds in my ride, yes the front and back ...
You would think it was a party, not a Cadillac! — LL Cool J

At least the rap metal stuff is good, but it's not really my bag. I've been listening to the radio since we've been touring the past month, because we don't get it most of the time. — Jon Crosby

Personally, I just think rap music is the best thing out there, period. If you look at my deck in my car radio, you're always going to find a hip-hop tape; that's all I buy, that's all I live, that's all I listen to, that's all I love. — Eminem

I had a job to do, and I did it all these years to the best of my ability. That's what I'd like to leave behind as I finish my final game in Toronto. — Ernie Harwell