Rappers

"Throw your stones (Wo-oh-oh-ohhh) We can hold our own (Wo-oh-oh-ohhh) I don't need no microphone"

"I've never been afraid of the highest heights or afraid of flying now I've never been afraid of the wildest fights not afraid of dying But now I want off this ride cos you're scaring me and I don't like where we're going I need a new funfair cos you're scaring me and I don't like where we're going And now you're gonna miss me, I know you're gonna miss me I guarantee you'll miss me Cos you changed the way you kiss me"

"I'm missing my halo Where did today go? Why does it rain so much when it says so? Let me show you all the beautiful things What do they know? Come taste the rainbow Always gonna live like it's my last day"

"Two lives, living two lives I don't know which side of me is where the truth lies I'm living two lives, living two lives I got two sides of me try'n'a do right I got one on each shoulder both saying "I told ya" One is saying "Go" and the other's saying "No, no, no.""

"I don't know why it happened so fast When I tried to speak your language I'm happy you laughed 'cause I'm hardly a linguist spoke through kisses cos you didn't speak English and it was hard to distinguish love at first sight or holiday romance? Don't care, I was lost in the moment I really should'a missed that flight"

"Start to think it could be fizzling out Kinda shocked because I never really had any doubts Look into your eyes, imagine life without ya And the love kick starts again"

"First we made the wheel Then we made the car Then we made the bomb Now it's all gone wrong"

"She's electric, she's the current running through my veins She's a siren, hearing voices that I can't explain Now I should be thinking it over Instead I'm calling her over Now she's here and she won't go quietly I should be thinking it over Instead I'm calling her over Now she's here but she won't go quietly"

"Time might fly girls may cry lights may die but the skies don't lie It'll all make perfect sense if you follow me Come follow me now"

"I scribble on oak trees Pretty please you can sing my syllables credible My cordon bleu sonnets you just wishing they edible"

"You can't rap, my friend You're white and you're from Fulham Please put down the mic there's no way you can fool them Don't be stupid, you won't get that far Turn your back on hip-hop, bruv, and go and play guitar"

"If we don't kill ourselves, we'll be the leaders of a messed up generation If we don't kid ourselves, will they believe us if we tell them the reasons why? Did we take it too far (take it too far)? Did we chase the rabbit into Wonderland, lose a hundred grand, Will they understand it was all to stay awake for the longest"

"There's light at the end of the tunnel There's fight at the heart of a struggle Your smile should've told me you're trouble No more, no more, no more You owned me when I told you I love you you buried all my worth with a shovel Your smile should've told me you're trouble No more, no more, no more No more goodbyes (So long, so long, so long now) No more white lies You used to be the one true thing in my world You told me that you loved me. You're in love with yourself Shoulda listen to my mother You messed around the others now you're dead to me I've been sleeping with the enemy"

"You and me just click Just click, just click You and me just click You and me just click You and me just click You and me just click"

"It's worse by the day now, every time I lay down words come alive in my head and they play loud It's like they can't find a way out Wanna pull the plug on their party, it's starting to worry me, can't get to sleep when I wanna do How would you feel if your lyrics just followed you everywhere you went from the street to the bed and repeated through the night everything you said Tried so many things, pen and a pad by the side of my bed but it's sending me mad Every time I recline, I decline to opine but there's always a rhyme at the back of my mind... Sentences now they form in queues... And my mind won't stop cos I always gotta finish it"

"We been living in a world full of free love and the limit is the sky if we team up yeah, we run the world, we run the world"

"And it goes and it goes And it goes and it goes I got ten bags of funds, some rum and some dubstep Head off into the sunset, one step ahead of the game They've been attacking my brain, they ain't done yet Count to 100, open my eyes and it's fine again No sign of them, back in the open I'm hoping I'm reaching utopia Coping without her but it's all for the best No mess, let me digress One day soon, find room in my head to let another special person fully immerse themselves And we'll merge our worlds so perfectly This is paradise, certainly"

"How could I forget the day we met I had to date you, A couple months we were in love... Like Ross and Rachel, It went deranged, and then the chains... To leave, I hate you, It was kinda like that film where the Attraction's Fatal. You smash a plate, I slam the gate, (Yeah!, yeah!) You get irate, I turn up late, (We stuff our ammo) You scream and shout, I lock you out, (Who's in trouble now?) We call a truce and then we're back where we started. It's all good when we're on our best behaviour When the will turns sour it's like a scene out of Braveheart, Dark like Darth Vader, But still I love her, We fight, but there's light at the end of the tunnel."

"Take a bag with your clothes and leave your keys by the door 'cos she never wants to see you no more Never should have listened to the serpent You shot yourself in the foot again Take that sad little face and leave your pride at the door 'cos she never gonna touch you no more Never should have listened to the serpent You shot yourself in the foot again Face looks jaded Clothes look faded Keep walking on, my friend"

"Take my hand and don't let go Take my hand and don't let go oh no Come with me Temptation Avenue"

"'Cause we About it It's deep How we found it Sleep I doubt it When the sun hits your eyes and I'm with you"

"Run to, run to, run to, run Run together into something Run to, run to, run together into something new. Run to, run to, run to, run Run together into something Run to, run to, run together into something new."

"And we're all daydreaming now Escape to another world Live for another day Escape to another world Don't have to be told Don't have to grow old"

"It's just something I do Don't wanna kiss and tell I'll make it up to you And do it so well I can't do many things But one thing that I do For you, it's true I do it so well"

"Ask yourself what you really want from life Don't follow that crowd"

"No point standing alone No point wondering why No point getting it if you don't level it Gotta look 'em dead in the eye No point sitting at home Better just believe you can fly No point singing it if you're not ringing it Gotta look 'em dead in the eye"

"'And then he would follow it up with, "but if you ever tell anyone what we are doing both of our lives and careers would be over"'."

"'I have never forgotten one moment of what Michael did to me, but I was psychologically and emotionally completely unable and unwilling to understand that it was sexual abuse.'"

"'From seven years old, from day one of the abuse, Michael told me that we loved each other and this was love, this was an expression of our love.'"

"I said what I understood and I said what I was able to say."

"'And for the first time in my life, I began to realize that my completely numb and unexplored feelings about what Michael did to me might be a problem and maybe I need to speak to somebody about it.'"

"'The idea that I would make all of this up and put myself, my wife, my son, my entire family through this extremely stressful and painful experience all for money is incomprehensible.'"

"'I've lived in silence and denial for 22 years and I can't spend another moment in that.'"

"'I'm never going to go away with this for the sake of money. I'm never going to be silenced for money. That's not going to happen.'"

"People think of hip hop as a very angry art form and in many ways that’s true – there is a certain type of danger and aggression – but there’s also a coolness and a funkiness from back where the breakbeats started. I was drawn to its ability to allow you to let free the tempestuous emotions within you, whether they be anger or pain. All of us have those emotions and feelings within us and there was something about the chunky, bodily beats of hip hop that drew me into expressing myself in that way…"

"We try to portray ourselves as a very egalitarian society, the land of the fair go…But I think that we are quite segregated. And class exists in Australia – it’s much more slippery and hard to get your hands on than in other places where it’s more structured and stratified. But it’s there."

"I’ve always grown up as an in-betweener…Malaysian hyphen Australian, between really a working-class town, ‘struggle town’, and a really privileged private school, between secular and religious – even Queanbeyan is known as part city, part country."

"I think Australia’s sense of itself is very insecure, very shaky. And what I see around us is constant simmering tension and some kind of violence beneath the surface of this country."

"We've put animals in categories. There's bad ones — rats and whatever — and there's beautiful ones like dogs and fluffy ones. And that's just gross. Man should love all animals equally and realize it's part of their family."

"I read something one day: “If someone can’t actually kill animals themselves to eat meat …,” which really put me over the top. I can’t remember where I read that, but I wouldn’t. I think a lot of people live life through convenience. … I don’t think that I fully realized until I stopped eating [meat] how much it was a part of society and how much it was affecting me. … Like anything else, you’ve been indoctrinated from day one. … when you stop eating meat, you stop supporting slaughtering animals. … people need to be more responsible for everything around them, you know—animal rights."

"Comfort zones, after all, are the enemy of growth."

"Unhappiness is simply when the picture in your head doesn’t match the picture in front of you."

"Simply speechless. Thank you very much!."

"I have learned to daydream, I have had the opportunity to see my friends grow together with me, but I have not been able to see myself grow up. Sometimes it is difficult to recognize a #TBT with a great meaning behind it. Think as an adult and dream as a child, but never forget who you are and why you are daydreaming."

"SWAT teams, battering rams, and no-knock warrants (immortalized by Gil Scott Heron and written about by James Baldwin), all predate contemporary hyper-militarized police forces."

"The revolution will not be brought to you by Xerox."

"There will be no pictures of pigs shooting down brothers on the instant replay."

"The revolution will not be televised."

"You will not be able to stay home, brother. You will not be able to plug in, turn on, and cop out."

"Dreaming of what is today the value ta in the car in pen bitch, riding armored afraid of assault, of his own offspring father murdering for food for family."