Rapper Quotes · Page 106

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

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

“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

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

— George Michael

It never crossed my mind that I was the white guy rapping. I was best friends with Chamillionaire and whatever he did,…

— Paul Wall

Something is wrong with Eminem. He has so much in his mind that I almost feel lucky that he has music. I…

— Rihanna

I don't spend a ton of time interacting, but I feel like I probably do more than most rappers/artists. I just find…

— Lil Dicky

Hip-hop is about tearing down the system to better it, tearing down the system to better themselves. No matter how flimsy it…

— Russell Simmons

I'm just disillusioned with the hip-hop sound right now. It's too materialistic. You know, I'm the kind of guy ... I can't…

— Ice T

Back in the day, if someone said that hip hop and rap was a fad, that was a joke to me because…

— Jam Master Jay

I know that after me, there's going to be more female rappers that are a part of TDE. I want to make…

— Doechii

I want to be remembered as one of the illest, youngest cats to do it successfully and to keep doing it successfully.…

— Bow Wow

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

— Phife Dawg

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

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

— Drake

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

— Tupac Shakur

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

— LeCrae

“You can't call me boo." "Why not?" "Because you're not a rapper, and I'm not your shorty.”

— R.K. Lilley

I think music talks to you on an emotional level, regardless of where you're from. I guess I related to the tempo…

— Iggy Azalea

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

— KRS-One

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

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

— Young Thug

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

No, I'll stay Ice-T. This is what got me here, I'm always going to stay true to that. If it weren't for…

— Ice T

In subliminal ways, every song I do, there's something in it that I can attach to hip-hop directly.

— Everlast

My kid was a great baseball player. I thought I had it made. Front-row seats at Yankee Stadium. Then he turned sixteen…

— James Caan

Me being a rapper takes up too much of my time. I can't really do the things I need to do, but…

— Fivio Foreign

Hi, my name is best rapper alive and your mouth is the best crapper alive . Cause you talk shit, I get…

— Lil Wayne

I think people have gotten to know Tupac much better since he's been gone than they did when he was here.

— Afeni Shakur

Everybody talks and everybody listens, and somehow the truth just always comes up missin.

— Drake

People bashed Drake based off the fact that he didn't suffer. Who cares! Do you like the music or not?

— Lil Yachty