If you aim for only wealth, beauty, fame, & power, you aim too low. Humility, gentleness, gratitude, & service is aiming high. — LeCrae Copy Share Image
Trip-hop? That's never existed and they say I invented it. Trip-hop is just hip-hop with a girl singing on top. — Tricky Copy Share Image
I totally embrace the different transformations we've seen in hip-hop throughout the years. — Frank Dukes Copy Share Image
Since the '80s, Harlem has the place to go. Before the '80s, just as far as hip-hop go, Harlem has always been… — Dave East Copy Share Image
I love Snoop - I grew up with his music - but I never thought for a second that we'd work together. — Flying Lotus Copy Share Image
“And ever so faintly,I could hear Josh rapping to his posse's beat.I couldn't make out most of what he was saying, but… — Jennifer Echols Copy Share Image
Chance The Rapper makes some of the greatest music out, and he build his brand up organically, and the fans have reacted… — G-Eazy Copy Share Image
Growing up in the Bay, I was still looking for a lot of East Coast hip-hop. I had an older homie put… — G-Eazy Copy Share Image
This one guy, the worst guy in the music. The Yanni man. You know Yanni? First of all, anyone who looks like… — Dave Attell Copy Share Image
When I first saw Drake, I thought I was never going to like him based on the person that I saw on… — James Vincent McMorrow Copy Share Image
My favorite one, it depends. As far as rap wise, I like 'Ask 'Bout Me.' I like that one. It's like a… — Jay Park Copy Share Image
I am hoping to improve my writing and rapping, as well as get a better grasp on how to make beats and… — Aesop Rock Copy Share Image
I was always popular 'cause I've been rapping since I was 10 years old. Where I am from, I already had songs… — Latto Copy Share Image
If you think about rap and how it has become so much easier to record music and release it, and you think… — G-Eazy Copy Share Image
I am used to experiencing so much trauma, that when I see it, I have to speak out. I don't think rappers… — JPEGMAFIA Copy Share Image
Toasting is basically what you call rapping. It came off of playing the beats at the parties, however it be. You find… — Damian Marley Copy Share Image
Rapping and singing are not two polar opposites. There's so much middle ground. And I think there's a lot of people who… — Ezra Koenig Copy Share Image
We gotta let hip-hop grow. We gotta let it go through its different phases throughout the different places that's accepting it. — Rakim Copy Share Image
It was [Kanye West] who spoke, and then we met and recorded some songs. After, you know what it is: we all… — Young Thug Copy Share Image
When it's a rapper's album or a singer's album, there's a tendency to want a text-based or theme-based narrative. — Jamila Woods Copy Share Image
When I first was a part of 'The Monster,' I really wanted to put it out under my name, but no record… — Bebe Rexha Copy Share Image
If you don't know hip-hop, at least a little bit of it, you can't even call yourself an American. — KRS-One Copy Share Image
You know the world is messed up when the tallest man in the NBA is Chinese, the best golfer is black, and… — Chris Rock Copy Share Image
People always known me for rappin'. So I guess that maybe just hindered me, like "oh well, I mid-as-well go long term… — Ab-Soul Copy Share Image
Before rap my last name was my lifestyle, and when I visualize success it looked like right now. — Nipsey Hussle Copy Share Image
I fell in love with music at 13-years-old. I wanted to be a singer at first and a drummer. Then I fell… — Juicy J Copy Share Image
Without me, rap is just a bunch of orphans. But if I stay in the shit, there's a bunch of corpses. — Drake Copy Share Image
Rapping is competitive. Even someone who is not particularly fond of my music, may claim to be my fan only because he… — Raftaar Copy Share Image
People are so confused about race and hip-hop that people didn't even consider the Beastie Boys one of the greatest rap groups… — Chuck D Copy Share Image
I'm not as big of an R&B fan as people like to think, but I just love the marriage between R&B and… — Fabolous Copy Share Image
Hip hop is still strong. As an art form, music helps people express themselves, find meaning in their own lives and connect… — Erik Parker Copy Share Image
It feels like Gangstarr is the purest group in hip-hop. They was shooting videos on the beach in the winter when the… — Fat Joe Copy Share Image
When I met Dre, N.W.A. didn't exist, nor did Michel'le. And I think we had a chemistry. When started working on my… — Michel'le Copy Share Image
Tons of rappers... Only so many Lyricist... even fewer Monsters… rarely Artist. - Novi Novak — Novi Novak Copy Share Image
I've been around a lot longer than most rappers stay around. So I don't feel like, I haven't made too many career… — Ice Cube Copy Share Image
I start thinking: How many souls hip-hop has affected? How many dead folks this art resurrected? How many nations this culture connected?… — Common Copy Share Image
As long as I'm not selling out the people that ride or die with me, I'm glad I'm not an MC. I'm… — Young Jeezy Copy Share Image
I'm not enthused by these rap dudes. All in they videos, posin' half nude, with all of them tattoos, Til I blacken… — Trife Diesel Copy Share Image
I been in the game for 10 years making rap tunes... Ever since honeys was wearing Sassoons. — Dr. Dre Copy Share Image
Negativity lives in rap. That's what it's built on. That's where the money circulates and generates from - negativity. — Redman Copy Share Image