Rapper Quotes · Page 78

I've been trying to nail it into everyone's heads that I feel like I am the most versatile rapper.

— Ludacris

Bruno Mars is pretty fashionable. Gary Clarck Junior, who was also in our ad with Jimmy Page, is a super super stylish…

— John Varvatos

I'm not big on rap, to be honest. I just don't get it. It's angry people shouting. I like a song, melodies,…

— Paul Weller

I'm very into film and strengthening what it means to be a rapper and to be a black dude from Chicago.

— Chance The Rapper

Pac never had a license. He would mysteriously pop up with all these cars like, 'Get in. We're goin' to jail!' I…

— Scarface

Hip-hop is a competition culture. It's based around, "My DJ is better than you. My graffiti artist is better than you."

— Ice T

I liked hip-hop, wanted to do rap, and wanted to stand on a large stage. If you look at it in another…

— Kim Nam-joon

Often, with my uptempo songs, people get the misconception that I'm a rapper or something of that nature. But a song like…

— Sisqo

Hip-hop has been the guiding light of my life as a musician and a music fan. It's the one common thread through…

— James Vincent McMorrow

I heard this guy going around talking about how he was this big rap producer, and he was just going around and…

— Aziz Ansari

'TTM' started off being a feature. A producer wanted me to just hop on the beat, like a Diplo type of thing.…

— PnB Rock

I think rap music is rap music. I mean, are there heavy writing aspects of it? Absolutely. In a sense, is it…

— Earl Sweatshirt

My family have always supported my rap - and they know I love them when I rap about them - but I'm…

— Killer Mike

As an artist when you come into [hip hop] you don't know nothing really. You just know what you do and it's…

— Mic Geronimo

When I wanted to be professionally known as a rapper I said I wanna take the moniker Gucci Mane. But all the…

— Gucci Mane

We have been lead as the hip hop generation. We have been once again lead by people who are under qualified. It's…

— MC Hammer

I fight for whatever I believe in! I've learned to trust myself. I went from a being a rapper to an artist.

— Tierra Whack

Before hip-hop existed, we were listening to soul songs from the '70s. I grew up with Motown, Elton John, and the Beatles.…

— Gza

No matter what part of the country you come from, you can always come together to make groundbreaking hip-hop.

— Ice Cube

I don't know how I started rapping. The first I did was at school. I tried writing one. I liked it. People…

— YoungBoy Never Broke Again

I think, in a lot of ways, hip-hop is interesting to me because it's like the modern-day folk music.

— Mat Kearney

I think people just have to realize that music grows, and hip-hop evolves. I mean, everything evolves.

— Lil Dicky

It's an accompaniment to life. It's not something that I do to rap; I smoke when I open my eyes...I don't know…

— Action Bronson

You know, if Michael Jordan can scream at the refs, me as Kanye West, as the Michael Jordan of music, can go…

— Kanye West

I don't really like listening to so much rap because I like to have my mind focused on what I'm doing instead…

— Mustard

Rap, to me, is communal. It's something you do with your friends. So becoming a member of a group was the dream.

— Killer Mike

I respect Drake not only as a creative person but as a business mind as well. I think Drake's important.

— Frank Ocean

I always felt like I had something to prove. It's always been, 'I gotta show them that I can still rap. I…

— Lil Yachty

I think most music provides the same messages - whether it be 'I'm unhappy' or 'I love a girl.' I just liked…

— Iggy Azalea

The only thing America respects is power and power concedes nothing. After the LA Riots, they tried to calm us down and…

— Tupac Shakur

I think hip-hop could help rebuild America, once hip-hoppers own hip-hop... We are our own politicians, our own government, we have something…

— Nas

Icelandic peoples were the ones who memorized sagas... We were the first rappers of Europe.

— Bjork

I like a lot of ratchet, trap music. Definitely 21 Savage. We need some music like that. ManMan Savage. A lot of…

— Lil Uzi Vert

I'm the biggest Drake fan - my favorite is 'Tuscan Leather' because it's like three songs in one, and for somebody that's…

— Mabel

This is just a long shot, but I definitely would want to work with Frank Ocean. He's the man.

— Kodie Shane

I started writing rhymes in fact when I was 11 or 12 years old. I was actually into hip hop before anything else.

— Jay Sean

Eminem's 'Lose Yourself' is my go-to song to pump myself up if I'm having a tough time or if I get really…

— Sara Blakely

There's a heavy hip-hop influence in my music, some trap influence, but it's always lyrical.

— Melanie Martinez

Everything you listen to when you are 17 should be embarrassing, otherwise you are way too cool.

— Jessica Brown Findlay

I think I can pinpoint the moment that I realized that I enjoyed hip-hop music and it was the video game called…

— Mura Masa