Rap Quotes - Page 61

Niggas is decaf, I stick 'em for the C.R.E.A.M.

We are drowning in images. Photography is used as a propaganda tool, which serves to sell products and ideas. I use the same approach to show aspects of reality.

... the reason we think that computer graphics technology has succeeded in faking reality is that we, over the course of the last hundred and fifty years, have come to accept the image of photography and film as reality.

It seems to me like all these people claim to be the victim, Acting like the whole entire world is out to get them. Stand up on your own, And prove that you are grown, Because the life that you save may be your own.

Believers of Jesus be denouncing Satan on every level, But every Halloween they're dressin' like devils.

I'm that neighborhood blizzard flooding these streets with snow.

I had a dream I could buy my way to heaven, when I awoke, I spent that on a NECKLACE.

Photography is a contest between a photographer and the presumptions of approximate and habitual seeing. The contest can be held anywhere.

Probably one of the worst things that happened to photography is that cameras have viewfinders.

One knows that frontal and/or profile photography is torn to pieces... Inversely, what remains of the photograph must be seen as a fragment coming to fill a gap in the drawing.

The drama of light exists not only in what is in the light, but also in what is left dark. If the light is everywhere, the drama is gone.

What if Manhattan was hit by Hurricane Katrina?

In hip-hop, there's not a lot of love. There's not a lot of love being spread. It's always like 'I'm stuntin' on you raps, or I'm better than you raps.' It's not a lot of 'Yo man, I idolize you raps.'

Photographing a cake can be art.

...There are too many people studying it [photography] now who are never going to make it. You can't give them a formula for making it. You have to have it in you first, you don't learn it. The seeing eye is the important thing.

The thing that's fascinating about portraiture is that nobody is alike.

I throw raps that attack like the Japs on Pearl Harbor. MC's be out like bank robbers, Fleeing the scene, to be a sole survivor; DJ...the getaway driver.

My father was a psycho-analyst and I think that fact was very influential on my development as an artist. Trying to search beneath the surface of things for an unexpected sense of mystery.

Leica, schmeica. The camera doesn't make a bit of difference. All of them can record what you are seeing. But you have to see.

When asked what he meant by a miracle: Oh, anything with a probability of less than 20%.

My only scheme was to be a rapper.

I'm building my adult beverage empire the way I built my independent rap label. As my career.

The camera can photograph thought. It's better than a paragraph of sweet polemic.

I think it's kinda funny that all these rappers that used to be gangsters and thugs are telling us not to download their music from the internet, because that's stealing. Wow talk about ironic.

You shouldn't throw stones if you live in a glass house And if you got a glass jaw, you should watch your mouth Cause I'll break your face...