Rap Quotes - Page 49

Photography doesn't teach you to express your emotions; it teaches you how to see.

Landscapes, heads and naked women are called artistic photography, while photographs of current events are called press photography.

It should be the aim of every photographer to make a single exposure that shows everything about the subject. I have been told that my portrait of Churchill is an example of this.

Within every man and woman a secret is hidden, and as a photographer it is my task to reveal it if I can.

With the camera, it's all or nothing. You either get what you're after at once, or what you do has to be worthless. I don't think the essence of photography has the hand in it so much. The essence is done very quietly with a flash of the mind, and with a machine. I think too that photography is editing, editing after the taking. After knowing what to take, you have to do the editing.

You niggas so-so like a seamstress.

Driving by my ambitions, desire higher positions, to see eternally and my mission, to be more than just a rap musician.

Be grateful for blessings, Don't ever change, keep your essence. The power is in the people and politics we address.

I was a little too antsy, I was jumping around, wanting to go here, wanting to be there. Once I started smoking weed, I just wanted to stay and play the video game and rap. You spend good time with your daughter, man, after you go smoke, chill with your daughter. You're willing to do whatever she want to do.

The more pictures you see, the better you are as a photographer.

A hundredth of a second here, a hundredth of a second there-even if you put them end to end, they still only add up to one, two, perhaps three seconds, snatched from eternity.

I wrote and produced millions and millions of selling records, so my publishing company alone was worth millions of dollars. I didn't have to work anymore in life because when the rappers started sampling... I'm the most sampled artist in history.

I think all art is about control, the encounter between control and uncontrollable.

I'm sautéing emcees with fried rice up in the wok without the MSG and chopped celery.

The world is kinda cold and the rhythm is my blanket Wrap yourself up in it, if you love it, then you'll thank it.

Photography itself is most frequently nothing but the reproduction of the image that a group produces of its own integration.

In black and white you suggest, in color you state.

To work with God's happiness bubbling in the soul is to carry a portable paradise within you wherever you go.

With rap music, because it's all so on the street, you get treated like a street cat: "All right, you've been eatin' enough, you're fat, get out of the way now and let somebody else come by."

Beulah, peel me a grape

I'm just basically spillin' out my emotions to the world. 'Cause rap is about emotion. And I want you to feel what I'm feelin', 'cause that's what it's all about.

Her life is deep, but I still dig her

I think that hip-hop should be spelled with a capital "H," and as one word. It's the name of our black people culture, and it's the name of our identity and consciousness. I think hip-hop is not a product, but a culture. I think rap is a product, but when hip-hop becomes a product, that's slavery, because you're talking about people's souls. To me, that's the biggest problem.

Cryptography is the ultimate form of non-violent direct action.

Luckily for me, I became a rap star so I'm making enough money to support my family. It's funny because that may seem like the only way that I can do such a task.