Rapper Quotes · Page 105

Hope you'll forgive me, never meant wrong. Tried to be patient, but waited too long. But I would've came back.. But I…

— Drake

I don't buy fancy things. I donated $2 million to Wu-Tang. I got a mixtape in return. It was a wonderful investment.

— Martin Shkreli

The first splurge that I did, I bought, like, an $80,000 watch, but that's because I'm a rapper. I need jewelry.

— Cardi B

I said I'd do a 'Shotta Flow 6' featuring Lil Wayne. That's the only way I'd come out of 'Shotta Flow' retirement…

— NLE Choppa

Run DMC brought us out of that underground-only feel. They brought rap above ground and made it respectable as an art form…

— Ice Cube

I didn't want to be one of these rappers that holds his chain up just faking like he has money. I wanted…

— Chamillionaire

My entryway into hip-hop was - my biggest introduction was obviously like, you know, the Def Jam, Run D.M.C., Beastie Boys, like,…

— Neal Brennan

I love being an example, that, hey, I'm young, I'm a rapper, and the gospel is the power of God for salvation…

— Trip Lee

Jimmy Iovine, he pretty much started off as an engineer and a producer, and then he started up a label. Then he…

— Mike Will Made It

Man, I would demand that artist come to the table with better variety. I would demand that musicians know music history, not…

— Pharoahe Monch

Like any great art, the culture of hip-hop has changed with the times. With the state of technology, music is more accessible…

— One9

East Coast, West Coast, all that needs to cease. Everyone wants hip-hop to be this big empire, but we're not going to…

— Da Brat

Eazy was an exceptional human being. He was a visionary. He was very Machiavellian, he understood power and how to use it.…

— Jerry Heller

And Dre just walked in, like, 'Soulja!' And I was like, 'Oh, is that Dr. Dre?' And [my boys] were like, 'Why…

— Soulja Boy

To show a different side on 'Love & Hip Hop' and bring some validity to it and not just be ratchet, messy…

— Omarion

They could never make me hate you. Even though what you was doing wasn't tasteful.. Even though you out here looking so…

— Nicki Minaj

Now if you call 'Ain't No Half-Steppin' ' or 'Raw' an old-school song, I agree with you. But if you call Big…

— Big Daddy Kane

I'm going to forever have a love for music. I just don't think I'm going to rap forever.

— Latto

Laugh now, cry later: this is the karma. Hip-hop never died, it's just sick of the drama.

— Cormega

I've always been a fan of music. I would say I'm a fan of late '90s to early 2000s rap. That's where…

— Tyga

In using the English language to create an entirely new art form, the pioneers of Hip Hop created a vessel that grew…

— Jamaal Bowman

The thing about hip-hop today is it's smart, it's insightful. The way they can communicate a complex message in a very short…

— Barack Obama

If you're a black kid from the streets and somebody is rapping about parents not understanding, you'd laugh at that.

— MC Ren

I don't like calling it Christian rap. Titles are so limiting. It's hip-hop. I'm a rapper.

— Andy Mineo

I missed the old skateboarder Lupe Fiasco. I don't like the new, "rebellious, anti-government" Lupe.

— Anonymous

There are rap groups that have a positive outlook in their art. These groups should be shown as an alternative to gangsta…

— Kareem Abdul-Jabbar

Believe the best about people. Pray for their short comings. You are not the standard. We all need grace.

— LeCrae

2 Pac...I really had genuinely brotherly love for Pac when I became a part of the Death Row family, he immediately ran…

— MC Hammer

I want everybody to feel comfortable with vibing with Drake. I don't want to limit my music to people based on their…

— Drake

And in turn I'm hostile guess you could call me anti-social. Niggaz shakin like they caught the holy ghost when I approach…

— Tupac Shakur

I didn't want to be a rapper full time. You know, Big L kinda - God bless the dead - influenced me…

— Cam'ron

I always go to my Kanye [West], Jay-Z. I go back to alot of the stuff that I know for sure that…

— Jhene Aiko

When I rap, it's just an extension of how I speak, and that's how I talk. If you don't like it, don't…

— Azealia Banks

Some guy was just like, 'You rap fast, man. Like a little machine gun,' and from that moment, I was Lil Uzi.

— Lil Uzi Vert

I like Meek Mill a lot. I listen to 'Dreams & Nightmares' introduction a lot. I always act crazy when the beat drops.

— Joel Embiid

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

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

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

— YBN Nahmir