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Models will always get a bad rap about weight, but I love to eat. Devon Windsor

Love Will Rap Bad Eat About Bad Rap Weight Always Get Models

K-pop is a weird term because K-pop has everything - rap records - it's very pop-sounding; there are really boy-band-sounding records. Diplo

Everything Rap Records Weird Term Because Very Really

Since the 1960s, mainstream media has searched out and co-opted the most authentic things it could find in youth culture, whether that was psychedelic culture, anti-war culture, blue jeans culture. Eventually heavy metal culture, rap culture, electronica - they'll look for it and then market it back to kids at the mall. Douglas Rushkoff

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When I'm writing, I'm thinking about how the songs are going to play live. Fifty bars of rap don't translate onstage. No matter how potent the music, you lose the crowd. They want a hook; they want to sing your stuff back to you. Drake

Music You Writing Matter Lose Live Thinking Back Hook Rap About Potent Crowd Onstage Songs Stuff Sing How Going Want Translate Fifty Your Bars Play

I would say that I'm more moved by melody, even though I love to rap. Drake

Love Say Melody Though Rap Would More Moved Even

Odd Future's like a network as opposed to like a rap group. Earl Sweatshirt

Future Group Rap Network Like Opposed Odd

Lil B opened up the floodgates for Odd Future, and now rap has a huge Internet culture. Earl Sweatshirt

Future Culture Internet Rap Opened Odd Huge Up Now

Who gave it that title, gangsta rap? It's reality rap. It's about what's really going on. Eazy-E

Reality Gangsta Gave Rap About Going Title Really Who

I grew up on listening to, like, Mantronix and BDP and EPMD and Kool G Rap and Ultramag and Public Enemy and Fat Boys and Run DMC and a lot of those early records, those Rubin-era records. Those were always snare- and stab-heavy records. El-P

Enemy Listening Those Rap Run Records Like Boy Kool Always Were Lot Snare Up Grew Public Early Fat

RZA is one of the most unique individuals and rap artists that I have worked with. El DeBarge

Rap Individuals Most Artists Worked Unique

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. Elmer Bernstein

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. Eminem

You know, jazz is the mother of all American music. R&B and pop and rap and everything are the branches on the main tree of the life of music, American music, which is jazz. Eric Burdon

Life Music You Mother Jazz Tree Everything Rap All-American Main Know Branches American Which American Music Pop

A lot of the stuff I've accumulated over the last few years of touring I thought was really interesting. Like sounds, sound bites, and beats even, but they weren't good dance beats they weren't ones anyone would want to rap over or anything. Eric San

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I got into hip hop from my uncle; he was always playing us Kool G Rap and Big Daddy Kane. He was a bad boy, and my mum was not really happy that I was hanging out with him. Estelle

Nobody's going to tell me to rap in an American accent. Estelle

Me Rap Tell Nobody Accent American American Accent Going

After 2008, my brand of finance got a bad rap. Eugene Fama

Finance Rap Bad Bad Rap Got Brand After

I still to this day get the most inspiration from rap lyrics. Ezra Koenig

Day Lyrics Rap Inspiration Most Still Get

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