I look at old performers like James Brown: back in the day when you actually had to work hard to get poppin'.… — Kyle Copy Share Image
When I started out rapping, I became very frightened by the idea that people were trying to pigeonhole me. That's usually what… — Princess Nokia Copy Share Image
I didn't get into Tupac [Shakur] until a little later, once I started understanding rap and people's stories. Eminem was the first… — Tyga Copy Share Image
A friend of mine encouraged me to try rapping, so I started experimenting with it, writing verses, seeing if I could fit… — K. Flay Copy Share Image
What's crazy to me is that people now assume I'm behind [hip-hop] tracks that other people are putting out. They're just sitting… — AraabMuzik Copy Share Image
I found very early on when I became a hip-hop artist that I loved telling stories. Actually, when I was trying to… — Ben Drew Copy Share Image
I think it's a tribute to the artistic importance of hip-hop culture and what hip-hop has brought into music and fashion and… — Simon de Pury Copy Share Image
90% of the people that rap are just rappers, they rap what they see, a lot of them exploit other peoples lives,… — Cormega Copy Share Image
We really just live our life. We rap about our life, where we from, our city, what we've been through, from the… — Westside Gunn Copy Share Image
By the time you get into other kinds of music - R&B, country, or whatever - it becomes something that's romantic. It… — Talib Kweli Copy Share Image
I've always been noted for being original and doing different thing. So for me to hop on the train that's going on… — Will Ferrell Copy Share Image
I love in my mind to look at Jay-Z and Beyonce because I think that he is a guy that's hood but… — Keyshia Cole Copy Share Image
My parents were fairly young in the city of Compton. So the things that they played - you know, that was the… — Kendrick Lamar Copy Share Image
I think there's a lot of taboos in hip-hop that people try and stay away from. I think a big one is,… — Chance The Rapper Copy Share Image
With freestyling it's not about "Say something funny!" That has nothing to do with it. It's about becoming quicker on your feet… — Doseone Copy Share Image
It's natural. I freestyle, meaning that I just rap. I might put words on paper, but I just put a beat on… — Snoop Dogg Copy Share Image
“And Drake?” I asked. “Kept telling me how proud of me he was. I spent most of the next few days doing… — Sloane Kennedy Copy Share Image
I get advice from all the producers who have come out of Memphis. They just give me advice on the business side,… — Tay Keith Copy Share Image
Lil Wayne would probably be a big musical inspiration for me, because growing up I was just the biggest Wayne fan and… — Tyga Copy Share Image
Say there's a white kid who lives in a nice home, goes to an all-white school, and is pretty much having everything… — Eminem Copy Share Image
When you start to really travel and you get to these abstract like places in the world, you would see certain people's… — Ice T Copy Share Image
I'm a rapper but I don't f**k with that hip-hop s**t. You understand? I'm home, I take care of my family. I… — Sean Price Copy Share Image
You start learning English in fifth grade. I was 12. But even before then I was listening to American music. My neighbor… — Ivica Zubac Copy Share Image
I think people that came out originally, like 2Pac, Biggie, Snoop Dogg,, and even T.I. and Ludacris, they were original with their… — Tyron Woodley Copy Share Image
I'm not interested in hearing yet another rapper tell me why he's the best. Why not tell a story set in a… — Aesop Rock Copy Share Image
We need to look beyond the obvious. Yes, there are minstrel images in hip-hop. Yes, there are demeaning, anti-racist, misogynistic and homophobic… — Bakari Kitwana Copy Share Image
The talk-box thing that T-Pain does is something new and different for this generation because they don't know about Zapp or Teddy… — Keith Sweat Copy Share Image
Hip Hop can be a very powerful weapon to help expand young people's political and social consciousness. But just as with any… — Assata Shakur Copy Share Image
When it came time to be a professional rapper, I wouldn't sign anything without reading it. There was no way I was… — Queen Latifah Copy Share Image
I rap when I'm rich. I rap when I'm broke. I rap when I'm bullshit in the street. I rap about only… — Killer Mike Copy Share Image
I come from a town of 800 people, and you just listen to Jay Z there. You never think about meeting him.… — Willie Cauley-Stein Copy Share Image
To me, Wu-Tang is beyond Wu-Tang Clan... It's just like, hip-hop is beyond Grandmaster Flash, but Grandmaster Flash was one of the… — Rza Copy Share Image
I really love to act. I really love to touch the people with my work. It's about giving people what they want… — Cory Hardrict Copy Share Image
Compton rapper Kendrick Lamar sounds decades older than he is, and it's not necessarily the wear and tear that comes from a… — Anthony Fantano Copy Share Image
G.O.O.D. Music is just real tastemakers, man. Kanye's a real tastemaker. One thing that I feel is tight about G.O.O.D. is that… — Big Sean Copy Share Image
The first album I remember putting on and really enjoying was Paolo Nutini's 'These Streets.' Then, growing up, I listened to a… — Lola Young Copy Share Image
Hip-hop was my first real love, one that was my own and wasn't my parents' music. Initially, I was inspired by hip-hop… — Mayer Hawthorne Copy Share Image
Critics are always complaining about the materialism of hip-hop and accusing the artists of living way above their means. But this ostentatious… — Simon de Pury Copy Share Image
Biggie was the King Of New York as a rapper. There's a lot more dangerous guys than Biggie Smalls out there, you… — Jay-Z Copy Share Image
I take the typical words, or I pick a two-word, three-word pattern. One of the things I'm known for is I was… — Bun B Copy Share Image
![“I didn't get into Tupac [Shakur] until a little later, once I started understanding rap and people's stories. Eminem was the first rapper that I actually started dissecting the lyrics, and once I got attached to his stories, then I started listening to Dr. Dre, then Snoop 'cause they were all…” quote by Tyga](https://sms4smile.com/q/img-quotes/329/tyga-579_camps_i-didn-t-get-into-tupac-shakur-until-a-l_500184.jpg)
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