Rapper Quotes · Page 43

I'd love to work with Frank Ocean. I really like his music.

— Ludwig Goransson

Unless life is one giant rap battle, you don't need to freestyle your way to success.

— Luvvie Ajayi

Rap helped me find my swagger. It also helped me get rid of my stutter.

— Chris Redd

You know, Slick Rick was tight at telling stories.

— Goldlink

And I hope I'm forgiven for Thug Livin when I die.

— Tupac Shakur

Like my good friend Eminem the rapper says, you only get one shot.

— Shaquille O'Neal

All we ever wanted was for Tupac to have the opportunity to tell his story.

— Afeni Shakur

I don't like the fact that there are so few women in rap.

— Cheryl James

I never really told anybody that I'm a rapper. I wasn't walking around being like, "Yo, check out my mixtape!" It was…

— J. Cole

Kanye's the best. He really, really is. He's cool. And why we've always gotten along is because we can just sit down…

— Virgil Abloh

Tupac and I were just close friends because we had such an insatiable drive and passion for acting and entertainment.

— Jada Pinkett Smith

Frank Ocean is super dope! He's like a ghost. He's, like, not really real. I didn't think he was real until I…

— Lil Yachty

Shout out to J. Cole. We come from the same type of struggles. He put the real in his music, I put…

— Jay Rock

Talk dont make it happen. I do not talk, I am just a rapper. Too tight need muscle relaxer. Im whats next,…

— Childish Gambino

Hip-hop is universal now, it's all commercial now. It's like a circle full of circus clowns up in the circuit now.

— Eminem

The Temple of Hip-Hop makes sure that we don't just approach hip-hop just through music or through rap. We approach the totality…

— KRS-One

I really like Kendrick Lamar. I'm still a Talib Kweli fan, Lupe Fiasco, Mos Def, Common Sense - people who say things…

— Bushwick Bill

I don't really get the same kinda romance that I would get from, like, jazz. And even to a lesser extent to…

— Lupe Fiasco

'Rapper's Delight' came from the TV entertainment show 'Good Times,' but when the times called for a shift in the narrative, artists…

— Steve Stoute

To me, hip-hop's been dead for years. We all should know that. With that being said, then, the object of the game…

— Nas

I think the 'sunken place' - that term is what I hear when I'm just casually living my life. People say it…

— Daniel Kaluuya

McDonald's offers a king's ransom to any hip-hop artist who is able to put Big Mac into a song. MTV - and…

— Chuck D

Before I was rapping, I was always around the rap game, even though I was in the streets. I would be at…

— Fat Joe

Getting money niggas think I joined Illuminati. Throwing West Side up I'm feeling like Killuminati. Now isn't it ironic that I'm in…

— Big Sean

I loved Project Pat and Juicy J and all them. Three 6 Mafia. Memphis flows.

— Sexyy Red

I like Bruno Mars a lot. I think he's great.

— Engelbert Humperdinck

I was just a huge fan of music, so that's how I learned how to rap.

— Amine

I've always wanted to make that change from a rapper into an artist.

— Ski Mask the Slump God

All these niggas that have good music have longevity.

— Schoolboy Q

I try to use a lot of rap elements but my main thing is melodies.

— Lil Mosey

I look at Lil Wayne as being from my generation.

— Timbaland

I definitely think, generally, rap is misogynistic.

— Kanye West

I haven't done rap... I can't do that too well.

— Dee Dee Ramone

I always wanted to be one of the hottest rappers.

— Meek Mill

Drake, the way he uses that Auto-Tune has always been attractive, hasn't it?

— Grace Chatto

We need to support the people who are making real hip-hop.

— Redman

People like to say, 'Ah, he just knows how to rap.' As if I didn't know my music.

— Anuel AA

I've known Uzi for a while... he's the best.

— Nav

Rap music's the only thing that ever mattered.

— Kenny Beats

A lot of the music, and especially rap, I don't understand.

— Patti Page