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I'll dance to anything: Bob Marley or rap.

I don't like rap that you can't understand. The youth is so quick and alert.

I listen to music for emotion and I get zero emotion from rap.

I remember being told 'Someone's gonna make a fortune out of this rap thing' and thinking 'no way'.

When you talk about rap you have to understand that rap is part of the Hip-Hop culture.

In the past it seemed like I was making fun of rap a little bit. But it was more me making fun of myself, since I'm not technically a rapper, whatever that means.

There's no way I can compete with someone who can write rap or rock and roll. Nor do I wish to. But I've always kept up to date with music changes. I worked very hard not to type myself.

Everybody in the '80s, well, we hate rap. Now, the biggest rapper in the world... Eminem. Rap's a black thing.

The myth of black women profiting at the expense of black men is the oldest rap around.

I have considered rap music stars, and there is one in my new book, Lovers and Players, and there is also a hip-hop music mogul who I think you will like a lot.

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.

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

Rap actually comes out of punk rock, not black music.

A lot of times black folks look for love in all the wrong places. You're always looking for somebody to love you, be accepted, and there's the insecurities that are even transmitted through rap. Everyone is trying to aim to please too much.

I'll probably have a lot of rap cats come on up.

Rap is only one end of a whole spectrum of verbal play and virtuosity. Rap is geared for aural pleasure.

Happiness has a bad rap. People say it shouldn't be your goal in life. Oh, yes it should.

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.

When you're a little kid, you don't see color, and the fact that my friends were black never crossed my mind. It never became an issue until I was a teenager and started trying to rap.

Sometimes I feel like rap music is almost the key to stopping racism.