Rapper Quotes · Page 100

You are the Kim to my Marshall,your the Slim to my Shady, the Dre to my Eminem, the Alaina to my Hailie.

— Eminem

The Temple of HipHop has declared HipHop its own religion. We believe HipHop is divine. HipHop proves the existence of God.

— KRS-One

Hip-hop was indifferent to Broadway. We didn't need Broadway, but I think Broadway needed hip-hop.

— Daveed Diggs

By no means am I excusing homophobic rap lyrics, but as a product of the same environments that birthed hip-hop, I fully…

— Karamo Brown

Nas has always been uncomfortable with being famous and accessible. Nas makes music because he loves music, not because he wants the…

— Steve Stoute

Growing up listening to rap music, you almost feel like you should have haters. That's an important part of being a successful…

— Ezra Koenig

Ima f-cking rap til you blue in the face, Youll probably turn into smurfs with the time that you waste!

— Pusha T

I spent a lot of time drawing and writing little comic books, and my mom was a rapper, so I would steal…

— Megan Thee Stallion

In a time like this, when records are not selling, he's the only one that is selling. You know, Drake and all…

— Tony Yayo

I come from a very specific love of hip-hop. I'm saying hip-hop, not rap. That's what saved my life. I carry that…

— No I.D

As much as people try to pit black entertainers against one another, because of the underlying feeling that there can't be two…

— David Banner

Who is the best rapper ever? I'll probably have to say Eminem. I would definitely say Eminem. He came from a whole…

— Akon

I don't really like to write anywhere but my own apartment. I send a lot of text messages to myself as email…

— Chelsea Martin

Nellie's brow furrowed. "The great Mr. Hip-Hop Mogul standing in line with the common peasants? How do you figure that?" Dan grinned.…

— Gordon Korman

The word 'crunk' means energy. 'Crunk' is the past tense of crank. So if you crank something up, you are getting it…

— Lil Jon

You hearing it the words out of my mouth fresher than spearmint, It's no experiment, independent appearances the way that I'm appearing,…

— Diggy Simmons

With rapping, that's just another form of expressing your music. Whether you're going to rap, you're going to sing, it's whatever you…

— Mike Will Made It

“Cuz even a gangsta rapper can find redemption For the sins committed before revelation.”

— Carlos Salinas

Hip-hop isn't dead by any means, but it's not something I define my black identity with.

— Justin Simien

I got to say hello to Snoop Dogg. I got to, I was being barged out of the way by his bodyguards…

— George Michael

Hip-hop is a beautiful thing. I think that the music genre itself has created more millionaires than any other music genre before…

— Steve Harvey

I like them brown, yellow, Puerto Rican, or Haitian Name is Phife Dawg from the Zulu nation

— Phife Dawg

Everyone's been on the "hip-hop is dead" campaign for years, and now it's the most unsure-of-itself genre ever.

— Aesop Rock

Hip hop is a human skill, and the practice of real hip hop should remind us of our humanity.

— KRS-One

Working with Kanye is one of the greatest things ever. It's also one of the most nerve-wracking things ever. He's, like, the…

— Big Sean

Kanye has been a good friend for ten years. He flew back from London to Los Angeles for 24 hours just to…

— Harley Pasternak

I always had a big fan base on the Internet, but it wasn't as a rapper. It was just as, 'Nahmir.'

— YBN Nahmir

I like the one where he believes everything bad you do comes back to you which is true. and oh my god…

— Tupac Shakur

What inspires me about rap is that it's written in an almost poetic way. I just think it's so cool.

— Billie Eilish

I would love to collect [art] at some point, but I think the whole rap/art world thing is getting kind of corny.

— Drake

I probably wrote my first rap when I was 10, maybe 11 or 12. And I shared it with my family immediately.…

— Jelly Roll

Hip-hop music has been my programming. It's been my love. When I was a kid, hearing Eminem, G-Unit for the first time,…

— Jesse Rutherford

We play a hip-hop song and suddenly 25 people on the left jump up and put their hands in the air; then…

— Beck

Many elitists hate rap as much as they hate country, though they don't like to admit it for fear of appearing racially…

— Will Shetterly

I'm a lifelong fan. There's not a white kid in the world who didn't listen to Eminem rapping.

— Jelly Roll

The only time you had blacks, whites, and Latinos jamming together was in hip-hop. It's an unsung history.

— KRS-One

[I like in Kanye West] confidence in him, but also his aggressiveness, ambition and charisma.

— Young Thug

The bottom line is, if every single platinum song right now wasn't auto-tuned, then I would be like, "I can't be a…

— Spencer Pratt

Kanye is the leading eagle: he's like the president who stands up for kids like us who have ideas.

— Travis Scott

Even in our best shape we are a brittle piece of mortality. Your life is a breath, don't waste it.

— LeCrae