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Snoop Dogg Rapper, Actor
Rap

"It's Christmas time and my rhyme's steady bumpin. Everybody happy, hair still nappy, Gonna steal a gift for my old grandpappy."

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Eminem Rapper, songwriter, record producer
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"Sometimes I feel like rap music is almost the key to stopping racism."

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Kendrick Lamar Rapper, Songwriter
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"My whole thing is to inspire, to better people, to better myself forever in this thing that we call rap, this thing that we call hip hop."

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Ralph Waldo Emerson Essayist, Philosopher, Poet
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"I hate this shallow Americanism which hopes to get rich by credit, to get knowledge by raps on midnight tables, to learn the economy of the mind by phrenology, or skill without study, or mastery without apprenticeship."

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Snoop Dogg Rapper, Actor
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"So what if I'm smokin' weed onstage and doing what I gotta do? It's not me shooting nobody, stabbing nobody, killing nobody. It'sa peaceful gesture and they have to respect that and appreciate that."

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The Notorious B.I.G. Rapper, songwriter
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"I mean even though we were going through our drama I would never wish death on nobody, you know what I'm sayin' Because there ain't no coming back from that"

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Kanye West Rapper, Producer, Fashion Designer
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"I said Yo Jay, I can rap. And I spit this rap that said I'm killin' ya'll *****s on this lyrical sh*t, mayonnaise colored benz, I push miracle whips."

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Jay-Z Rapper, Businessman
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"They say a midget standing on a giant's shoulders can see much further than the giant. So I got the whole rap world on my shoulders, they trying to see further than I am."

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J. Cole Rapper, songwriter
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"Rhyme patterns are nothing without meanings to the words. A lot of rappers can do those flows, but the raps aren't really about anything - which is cool sometimes, but to have the flow and the message is one of my favorite things."

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Kid Rock Musician, Actor
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"They believed you can't mix rock, country, and rap, and that crossover is dead. I always knew it would work. And it will always work as long as you're really into it and like what you're doing."

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