Rapper Quotes · Page 32

I feel close to [Kanye West]. We're friends, this is not just a working relationship.

— Young Thug

Once you're hiphop you're hiphop, it's in my blood it's not going anywhere.

— Heavy D

I'm no longer the young guy in No I.D.'s studio asking for Kanye beats.

— Logic

I'm not rapping, I'm conversing. It's just a conversation between me and you.

— Snoop Dogg

You can be the coldest rapper, but if you're not known, you're nobody.

— E-40

My first words was thug for life and papa pass the mack

— Tupac Shakur

I mean, Common was and is like my favorite rapper.

— Vic Mensa

When I say R&B is dead, I'm pretty much saying the creativity is gone.

— Sisqo

As long as I'm around the cats in the hip hop scene, they'll throw me a track and I'll write a rap…

— Ice T

To stand out, I just use my talents. I rap, and I sing as well. With that being said, people kind of…

— Tink

Everybody in the '80s, well, we hate rap. Now, the biggest rapper in the world... Eminem. Rap's a black thing.

— Chubby Checker

I listen to both, but more grime before matches to get you kind of pumped up. But then I might switch to…

— Jesse Lingard

I'm trying to make music that I like, and I love hip-hop. At the same time, I love guitar. I love rock…

— Post Malone

You could be the best lyricist or rapper or songwriter, if you ain't mentally prepared to put in the work, it's a…

— Yo Gotti

I got the nerds rappin' hard shit, dummies rappin' smart shit. Mozart meets Humphrey Bogart with this from the heart shit.

— J Cole

Hip Hop was supposed to be this new thing that had no boundaries and was so different to everyday music. As long…

— Tupac Shakur

It's a slippery slope when you make the argument that hip hop is only a black person's art. Certainly, its origins are…

— Dave Itzkoff

I don't think I really knew I was going to be a rapper until sixth grade. Even then, it was still kind…

— Chance The Rapper

When you're a college student interested in music, you hear all these rappers talking about dropping out. For me, when I heard…

— Saweetie

I would tell a young Jadakiss, learn the game as much as you learn how to rap, as seriously you take a…

— Jadakiss

Well, I ain't even gonna lie I used to wear fake jewelry when I was coming up, like trying to get on.…

— Moneybagg Yo

It's difficult, the synergy between Drake and our generation - my generation, anyway - in the sense that his music is vulnerable,…

— Daniel Sturridge

My problem is I'm not talented enough to do everything, but I want to do everything. I'm like, 'Oh God, I wish…

— Will Poulter

Hip Hop is the rebirth of civilization. For people who were disconnected from their continent, from their language, from their culture, and…

— Jamaal Bowman

As a child, I did not dream of being a rapper.

— Too Short

My favorite rappers are Lil Wayne. I like Wayne.

— Future

Almost every rapper has a track that talks about their dreams.

— Boi-1da

A lot of rappers lie about who and what they are.

— Jay IDK

“Tupac was around back in my wind-up phonograph days, you know.”

— J.M. Darhower

Drake is super versatile. He always has a lot of emotional moments on his albums.

— Snoh Aalegra

Hopefully, we learn to appreciate hip-hop here so that it doesn't go the way of jazz.

— Talib Kweli

I've always treated my city like some shoulder pads.

— Drake

When I first started rapping, I was like, 'I'm gonna be, like, the female Eminem.'

— Chanel West Coast

I grew up in Chicago, so hip-hop has always been a part of my life.

— Gina Rodriguez

Eminem is one of the greatest rappers of all time.

— Jalen Rose

I have a lot of respect for Jay-Z, Eminem, Ludacris, Cee-Lo. They're groundbreaking.

— Eyedea

All the 'Scarface' beats that you hear Mobb Deep sample, that was my idea.

— Prodigy

Busta Rhymes has been around for centuries. He's one of the original vampires.

— Tech N9ne

I met Jay Z. I don't really care about all that though.

— Lil Durk

Rapping is talking and communicating, and that's always good.

— Ice Cube