I have gone through many difference phases in my love affair with hip-hop.It evolves, your taste. It sometimes deepens, in terms of… — Solange Knowles Copy Share Image
I started rapping because my mom died when I was about 11 years old, and I was a very rebellious kid. I've… — Tory Lanez Copy Share Image
Jeezy just recognized my grind, and I jumped on board with him to enhance it. Artistically, we're in the same mind frame.… — Freddie Gibbs Copy Share Image
If you take a guy like a Barack Obama, who's raised millions of dollars from the most donors in the history of… — Michael Eric Dyson Copy Share Image
We also want to try and slow down all this foolishness that's going on between the East and West. We gotta understand… — Afrika Bambaataa Copy Share Image
I had written rap songs in the early '90s and even did a couple homemade rap songs with my brother in like… — Aesop Rock Copy Share Image
I really didn't think it was possible because there was really no one from my neighborhood that I knew or saw that… — Paul Wall Copy Share Image
I'm not really up on what's new. I'm still listening to Run DMC twenty-five years later. In the same way that the… — Colson Whitehead Copy Share Image
Joker rhymes like the is you just happy to see me trick, classical slapstick rappers need chapstick, a lot of them sound… — MF Doom Copy Share Image
There was a time in the late '90s there where it was like every rapper had his rapper name and then his… — Everlast Copy Share Image
I did a couple songs with this hip-hop guy named Tim Dark. He was working in the same studio I've been working… — Alan Vega Copy Share Image
A lot of the younger kids now can rap, but they're scared of the crowd. Mastery of that stage is an MC.… — Ice T Copy Share Image
Everything my fans tell me is the way I felt when I was a Tupac fan coming up. My fans tell me,… — Boosie Copy Share Image
I've always used Southern rappers in epigraphs for my novels. For 'Sing, Unburied, Sing,' I wanted to use Big K.R.I.T. - because… — Jesmyn Ward Copy Share Image
West Coast hip hop was the sound of my neighbourhood. It was something I could relate to because it had a sound… — Kamasi Washington Copy Share Image
I think that people have been claiming hip-hop as being dead since the moment it started. I think there are people -… — El-P Copy Share Image
I sat down with my long time business partner and Rap-A-Lot CEO James Prince to review the music that we had and… — Bun B Copy Share Image
The music community in Minneapolis is really incestuous so I've gotten the chance to work with a gang of people who have… — Nikki Jean Copy Share Image
What came first I would say was the producing. I was a huge fan of Pharrell Williams and around that era, when… — Kevin McCall Copy Share Image
If you're a battle rapper on the block, the emcee battle challenger, not writing your rhymes could really hurt you. When you're… — Rick Ross Copy Share Image
Gangsta rap often reaches higher than its ugliest, lowest common denominator, misogyny, violence, materialism and sexual transgression are not its exclusive domain.… — Michael Eric Dyson Copy Share Image
To me, the Seventies were very inspirational and very influential... With my whole persona as Snoop Dogg, as a person, as a… — Snoop Dogg Copy Share Image
Lets be clear, Dolly Parton is a rapper. Somewhere before all the country, I don't know what happens up there in the… — Queen Latifah Copy Share Image
We used to talk about wanting to get some money, but that's when hip-hop was based on your dreams and your fantasy.… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
We are weak, please let us in. We're week, please let us in." After about a week tha song is gonna change… — Tupac Shakur Copy Share Image
I just think that rap takes way more slack than the video games and the movies. We don't make guns. Smith and… — Cam'ron Copy Share Image
If you had no Eazy-E, you got no N.W.A., no Dr. Dre, no Ice Cube, no Tupac Death Row years... no Bone… — Too Short Copy Share Image
Listen, if you a comedian, and you try to jump in the rap lane, it's not gonna work out the way you… — Blueface Copy Share Image
You have the rap industry trying to stay above water by giving the people what they want, but then you have the… — Rahki Copy Share Image
That's very cool. Well, that's great. If I were to cater to Kanye, he would know that I'm catering to him. The… — Kanye West Copy Share Image
The question 'Why white kids love hip-hop?' forces us immediately to deal with the historical weight of race in America. On the… — Bakari Kitwana Copy Share Image
Rap was slowly becoming one of my hustles, but it wasn't my main hustle. But I come from a family of hustlers,… — Yo Gotti Copy Share Image
I'm really into old school music when hip-hop first came out with Common, A Tribe Called Quest, Queen Latifah, MC Lyte, and… — Raven Goodwin Copy Share Image
In hip-hop, what you have is you have a lot of formulaic-type bands or rappers that come up. They saw something on… — Sir Mix-a-Lot Copy Share Image
[Drizzy] reached out to me through Chase N Cashe, they're brothers, they're one. Chase N Cashe made the connection, played some of… — Kendrick Lamar Copy Share Image
The only guy that speaks at any sort of depth is, in my mind, Eminem. He's a guy that does music that… — Marco Rubio Copy Share Image
Songwriting was always my passion, it just came out in the form of rap. When I listen back to my old mixtapes,… — Jelly Roll Copy Share Image
When you look at a guy like a Jay-Z or look at a guy like a Nas, you don't necessarily qualify them… — Michael Eric Dyson Copy Share Image
I stand out. I don't really think I fit in with the 'what rap is' today. I feel like I stand out… — Dave East Copy Share Image
If an athlete plays the guitar, they say, 'That's so cool, he can play the guitar.' But if a guy raps, they… — Iman Shumpert Copy Share Image
![“[Drizzy] reached out to me through Chase N Cashe, they're brothers, they're one. Chase N Cashe made the connection, played some of my music and he [Drake] got up on it, got interested in the music and just reached out and said "You know what, let's work."” quote by Kendrick Lamar](https://sms4smile.com/q/img-quotes/e4f/kendrick-lamar-1241_brother_drizzy-reached-out-to-me-through-chase-n_1125410.jpg)
