Rapper Quotes · Page 37

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

— Gina Rodriguez

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

Kanye West does not represent all black people.

— Charlamagne tha God

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

— Tech N9ne

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

— Prodigy

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

— Eyedea

I believe hip hop is being used in some mass way to influence underachievement.

— Cee Lo Green

I find real strength in Drake and I think it's because he's so gentle and confident in his delivery. It's like, he's…

— Miquita Oliver

I have become their idol. Like, Busta Rhymes has called me twice to come to rap with him, and Big Daddy Kane…

— Rudy Ray Moore

I grew up listening to a lot of Snoop Dogg and the Wu-Tang Clan. Actually, I was a huge Wu-Tang fan.

— Bobby Moynihan

I'm a big fan of Kid Cudi. He was, like, the only concert I think I went to as a kid. He…

— Travis Scott

I do a lot of things hopin I never had to fit in, so tryin to keep up with my progress is…

— Drake

I'd want to meet Lil Wayne. He's a very smart man, intelligent guy and a lyrical genius. So I'd want to see…

— Patrick Chung

We culture. Rap is the new rock 'n roll. We the rockstars. It's been like that for a minute, Hedi Slimane!

— Kanye West

Mama I'm a gang bang graduate, pioneer to transition from this c*****n wasn't easy n****a but I mastered it. That's why I…

— Nipsey Hussle

No matter how far you go, if you can't go back to the essence, you're not sayin' nothin'. The essence for me…

— Wyclef Jean

Well, the first two days in prison, I had to go through what life is like when you've been smoking weed for…

— Tupac Shakur

There are certain things that I wish people knew - certain things that I feel I started and certain things that I'm…

— Rakim

To me, that's the biggest problem with hip-hop today is the fact that everyone believes that all of hip-hop is rap music,…

— KRS-One

Pete Rock, CL Smooth, all this East Coast stuff - that's kind of, like, the rappers I first admired. I wanna rap…

— Kyle

Ghost tells me every few years, Yo, you showed me this style ... I'm like, man, we the same style. At the…

— Raekwon

I used to be with Gucci every day. School nights, I was with Gucci going to all the different clubs, going to…

— Mike Will Made It

Yeah, if you go too far, like there's some rappers that use words that just be a little too out there, it…

— Big Daddy Kane

I had to Derrick Rose the knee up before I got the re-up

— Drake

And you're wasted with your ladies. Yeah I'm the reason why you always getting faded.

— Drake

I always did poetry, and [rap music is] pretty much hip-hop melody with poems.

— Tiffany Foxx

We just recently saw Bruno Mars at the Hollywood Bowl, and he was incredible.

— Bebe Rexha

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

— Logic

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

— Heavy D

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

— Young Thug

Anybody can be a rapper, but not anybody can be a classical artist.

— Nas

I didn't tell anybody that I wanted to rap when I was in high school.

— Megan Thee Stallion

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

— Vic Mensa

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

— Tupac Shakur

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

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

— Sisqo

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

— Too Short

Rap is still an art, and no-one's from the Old School Cuz rap is still a brand-new tool

— KRS-One