I treat clothing or a piece of jewelry like it was a piece of art, even though people who collect clothes get a bad rap because they're told it's all vanity.
America has a rap sheet. You can't police the world and tell the world how to act when you're just as bad yourself.
I'm not big on rap, to be honest. I just don't get it. It's angry people shouting. I like a song, melodies, people singing.
I go to a lot of stand-up comedy. I find more inspiration from observational stuff than from rap.
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.
I know some very political people who rap, and they say very political things and they'll never get a deal.
I didn't ever want to make a rap album. I considered it too limiting. Now that's exactly what I've gone and done.
I'd like to do a completely off-the-wall collaboration. I would like one of my songs to be the hook to a rap song. That would be so much fun!
That's why I called my record Devil Without a Cause - I'm a white boy who's so sick of hearing that white kids are going to steal rap.
Escapist literature gets a bad rap. But I think escape is important for a lot of people in a lot of places.
I hate the bad rap that people give my parents. Because they are just parents, really, at the end of the day trying to stand up for their daughter and themselves.
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.
I want to keep making records as long as I can, but I don't know how long you can be taken seriously in rap.
I got tired of the Ramones around the time I quit and I really got into rap. I thought it was the new punk rock. LL Cool J was my biggest idol.
I came from a crew, and to me, all the guys I rapped with were better than me, so I was surprised when I was the breakout one. It was definitely a cool thing.
Many elitists hate rap as much as they hate country, though they don't like to admit it for fear of appearing racially insensitive.
What's wrong with us isn't a rap sheet of bad deeds, but a damaged heart, a soul-sickness, that plunges us into fearful self-protection, alienation from God and others.
They say you can rap about anything except for Jesus, that means guns, sex, lies, video tapes, but if I talk about God my record won't get played Huh?
Jersey gets a bad rap. Most people make an assessment of this state on the ride from Newark Airport into Manhattan.
Throughout my rapping career, I always cooked for myself and anyone I worked with. It's what actually kept me grounded through those crazy years.
There were people who incorporated melody before me, but I would deem myself the first person to successfully rap and sing.
