Rapper Quotes · Page 82

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

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

Tons of rappers... Only so many Lyricist... even fewer Monsters… rarely Artist. - Novi Novak

— Novi Novak

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

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

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

I start thinking: How many souls hip-hop has affected? How many dead folks this art resurrected? How many nations this culture connected?…

— Common

I been in the game for 10 years making rap tunes... Ever since honeys was wearing Sassoons.

— Dr. Dre

According to some reports coming out of Washington today, President Obama said Kanye West is a 'jackass.' Not since 'yes, we can'…

— Conan O'Brien

I could never be a control freak. If Wu-Tang is a dictatorship, how does every Wu-Tang member have their own contract, their…

— Rza

Without the piano, I would never have attempted to rap, because I'm a poor rapper. I'm enthusiastic, but it takes me a…

— Chilly Gonzales

I always say to people that I left hip-hop in '97, meaning that I departed from listening to predominately hip-hop and just…

— Adrian Younge

I did a track with Khao, out of Atlanta, who's worked with T.I. Did a track with Maylay, who did a lot…

— Goapele

You're always looking for somebody to love you, be accepted, and there's the insecurities that are even transmitted through rap. Everyone is…

— Chuck D

Wayne's cool. I ran into him at my hangout back home, and he's just cool. I actually have this beat that I…

— Tyler, The Creator

I spent 80% of my time working on this, and 20% of my time working on music. Why do you think the…

— Kanye West

Negativity lives in rap. That's what it's built on. That's where the money circulates and generates from - negativity.

— Redman

You don't even have to ask twice, you could have my heart or we could share it like the last slice.

— Drake

Until now, I've not done a project where the produce, rapper and singer has never worked together like this before, and I…

— Namie Amuro

We probaly in hell already, our dumb asses not knowin, everybody kissin ass to go to heaven aint goin.

— Tupac Shakur

You know it's going to hell when the best rapper out there is white and the best golfer is black.

— Charles Barkley

I've asked about you and they told me things but my mind didn't change and I still feel the same.

— Drake

I'd love to work with Kanye West. He's gone through a lot of stuff in the public eye, but his music is…

— Bebe Rexha

I said it in the beginning. That I was gonna take them niggaz out the game and sure enough I will. Already…

— Tupac Shakur

Scared of a bunch of water? Then get out the rain. Order a rapper for lunch, and spit out the chain.

— Daniel Dumile

Chris Brown is a fantastic artist and songwriter and to be able to work with him was kind of unbelievable.

— Joe Jonas

If you aim for only wealth, beauty, fame, & power, you aim too low. Humility, gentleness, gratitude, & service is aiming high.

— LeCrae

I totally embrace the different transformations we've seen in hip-hop throughout the years.

— Frank Dukes

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

I love Snoop - I grew up with his music - but I never thought for a second that we'd work together.

— Flying Lotus

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

Chance The Rapper makes some of the greatest music out, and he build his brand up organically, and the fans have reacted…

— G-Eazy

“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

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

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

It was [Kanye West] who spoke, and then we met and recorded some songs. After, you know what it is: we all…

— Young Thug

We gotta let hip-hop grow. We gotta let it go through its different phases throughout the different places that's accepting it.

— Rakim

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

When I first was a part of 'The Monster,' I really wanted to put it out under my name, but no record…

— Bebe Rexha

If you don't know hip-hop, at least a little bit of it, you can't even call yourself an American.

— KRS-One