Rapper Quotes · Page 87

Although I grew up as a fan of the culture from the disco D.J. era as a young kid and hearing the…

— Fab Five Freddy

First rapper ever to jump off the stage on BET and, since Pac go to Hollywood to keep it street.

— Waka Flocka

And every breath I breathe untill the moment I'm deceased. Will be another moment ballin' as a 'G'.

— Tupac Shakur

Kendrick Lamar is from Compton, but his Compton and how he expresses that is completely different than NWA and Eazy-E even though…

— Rick Famuyiwa

Burnin' churches, fearin' God, Who can be so cruel, We all ignorant to AIDS, Till it happens to you.

— Tupac Shakur

Don't put your confidence in big names When they die and return to the dirt they can't do anything for you.

— LeCrae

Kanye [West] just says the funniest analogies that are so random. I should start keeping a book - in 20 years, I'll…

— Kim Kardashian

For those of us who grew in the early hip hop era, that music shaped us in a way to be in…

— Rick Famuyiwa

There's definitely some parallels between me and Joaquin Phoenix, I think. The line gets so blurry. My rap career wasn't a hoax,…

— Steve-O

I'm trying to prove everybody wrong whoever told me I couldn't make it. To all the haters who say I can't rap…

— Soulja Boy

“ Pharrell Williams : '[Tommy Lee] is a great drummer with a lot of style. He keeps his chops up in terms…

— Tommy Lee

Hip-hop, pop, dance - the common point is melancholy. That's international, and I like this word because it's not only about sadness…

— Stromae

Boy I got heat flamo, potent like liquid drano, a verbal valcano, they love me cause they know, I'm cut from the…

— Mac Dre

Eminem has been someone that I've always considered the greatest ever, to ever do it. You know what I mean? In every…

— Joyner Lucas

I grew up with park jams. That's how I knew about rap... The local MCs would grab the mic and start rapping.…

— Pepa

If you want to say something profound, writing from your heartbeat is different than writing from the loud voices you get from…

— Russell Simmons

People hate when I rhyme. Like I read the reviews, 'We don't really care much for his rapping but we like the…

— The Alchemist

I wouldn't consider myself a mumble rapper, because I don't know what that is. But when I talk, I mumble. So it's…

— Lil Mosey

Lil Wayne is talented. He seems to be the dominant figure in this particular era of hip-hop. So you know, he's doing…

— LL Cool J

I respect cats that can rap and everything, but the artist that inspires me is Turf Talk.

— E-40

I don't wanna be yelling all my life. How loud did I have to yell to say that Jay-Z was the man…

— Damon Dash

I always wanted the flowiness that hip-hop artists had. I always admired how they rapped so fast, but I never wanted to…

— Dua Lipa

Lil Jon was definitely a pioneer for some of the punk-rap acts we see now. He showed you could scream on a…

— Kenny Beats

I loved B.I.G., but not like I liked Tupac, because he was an actor, so I related to him.

— Derek Luke

I don't listen to much rap outside of Run DMC and the Beasties, but then I'm pretty burned out on most new…

— Jeff Hanneman

My biggest influence is Tupac. He was a poet, and listening to Tupac is what inspired me to start rapping.

— Chanel West Coast

I've listened to Eminem rap. That's not daily fare for me, but I can't help but admire how vivid what he does…

— Lesley Gore

Hip-hop was created out of necessity. We needed to create some digitized things to help us understand what we were feeling.

— Erykah Badu

A proud person is so busy looking down on others they cannot humble themselves to look up at God.

— LeCrae

Rap music is amazing, it's beautiful. But the problem is the lyrics. The person who writes the lyrics - that's the problem.

— Emmanuel Jal

One of the things that I'm dying to do is to sing the hook on a big rap song. No one's ever…

— Darius Rucker

When I started getting into West Coast rap - The Game, then I started studying a lot of Tupac Shakur and watching…

— Tyga

I think rap music is brought up, gangster rap in particular, as well as video games, every other thing they try to…

— Ice Cube

I thought of rap I thought of Grand Master Flash and I thought of about what they went through.

— Kool Keith

Rap music started because they were bored of other music so they created something really new.

— Aesop Rock

I had to fall back and rethink and get into the studio and listen to real r&b music. This is what I…

— Tony Sunshine

You know how there's all these rappers like Mike D and King T and Ice T and Cool C or something like…

— Ad-Rock

I think I'm pretty regular. I try to keep it pretty regular; I go to sleep early. I don't know what distances…

— Vince Staples

More than half of all the hip hop record sales are white people, and I think that might be a result of…

— Vanilla Ice

I think rap definitely has its place in the art world. I think it is an art form. But, just like any…

— Rick James