Rapper Quotes · Page 106

Nas has always been uncomfortable with being famous and accessible. Nas makes music because he loves music, not because he wants the…

— Steve Stoute

“In the words of a rap song my neighbor used to play on his boombox when I was a kid: Hold up,…

— Mariana Zapata

Hip-hop belongs in the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. It's one of the most radical, revolutionary and reactionary music there is.

— Steve Miller

Well, I think that hip-hop is not just a music. It's really a culture and it's a way of life.

— Thomas Chatterton Williams

Rap was an outlet for me to express myself. Nobody was trying to hear no R&B/Funk band from East Houston, so I…

— Scarface

The employees of the year, yeah we back to work. I took time off, while other rappers got jerked.

— Erick Sermon

For those from my era, my age, that 2Pac vs. Biggie war will go on forever about who is the greatest. But…

— Mannie Fresh

I would say Tupac influenced me the most to start rapping, but as far as a female icon that I've looked up…

— Chanel West Coast

“It is not surprising that young white males – most between thirty and forty – play major roles in the production of…

— bell hooks

When we were doing shows in the mid-'90s, the audiences were 95% black. What's happened now is the gentrification of hip-hop. A…

— Boots Riley

I love Kanye. He's literally the only person that challenges me. He has an overwhelming love for music also, and that's why…

— The-Dream

I rap about fighting back. I make it uncomfortable by putting details to it. It might not have been politically correct but…

— Tupac Shakur

Asking why rappers always talk about their stuff is like asking why Milton is forever listing the attributes of heavenly armies. Because…

— Zadie Smith

I bet you never heard of a playa with no game, Told the truth to get what I want, but shot it…

— Andre Benjamin

Every time a new rock singer comes out they don't say, 'Are you the new John Lennon?' Every time a new rapper…

— Michael Buble

I thought that Wu-Tang was the best sword style - the best sword-style of martial arts. And the tongue is like a…

— Rza

“If blues culture had developed under the conditions of oppressive, forced labor, hip-hop culture would arise from the conditions of no work”

— Jeff Chain in "Can't Stop Won't Stop A History of the Hip-Hop Generation

I think people have gotten to know Tupac much better since he's been gone than they did when he was here.

— Afeni Shakur

Everybody talks and everybody listens, and somehow the truth just always comes up missin.

— Drake

People bashed Drake based off the fact that he didn't suffer. Who cares! Do you like the music or not?

— Lil Yachty

Hi, my name is best rapper alive and your mouth is the best crapper alive . Cause you talk shit, I get…

— Lil Wayne

Me being a rapper takes up too much of my time. I can't really do the things I need to do, but…

— Fivio Foreign

In subliminal ways, every song I do, there's something in it that I can attach to hip-hop directly.

— Everlast

My kid was a great baseball player. I thought I had it made. Front-row seats at Yankee Stadium. Then he turned sixteen…

— James Caan

No, I'll stay Ice-T. This is what got me here, I'm always going to stay true to that. If it weren't for…

— Ice T

Many elitists hate rap as much as they hate country, though they don't like to admit it for fear of appearing racially…

— Will Shetterly

I'm a lifelong fan. There's not a white kid in the world who didn't listen to Eminem rapping.

— Jelly Roll

We play a hip-hop song and suddenly 25 people on the left jump up and put their hands in the air; then…

— Beck

[I like in Kanye West] confidence in him, but also his aggressiveness, ambition and charisma.

— Young Thug

The bottom line is, if every single platinum song right now wasn't auto-tuned, then I would be like, "I can't be a…

— Spencer Pratt

Kanye is the leading eagle: he's like the president who stands up for kids like us who have ideas.

— Travis Scott

The only time you had blacks, whites, and Latinos jamming together was in hip-hop. It's an unsung history.

— KRS-One

“You can't call me boo." "Why not?" "Because you're not a rapper, and I'm not your shorty.”

— R.K. Lilley

I think music talks to you on an emotional level, regardless of where you're from. I guess I related to the tempo…

— Iggy Azalea

Even in our best shape we are a brittle piece of mortality. Your life is a breath, don't waste it.

— LeCrae

I like the one where he believes everything bad you do comes back to you which is true. and oh my god…

— Tupac Shakur

What inspires me about rap is that it's written in an almost poetic way. I just think it's so cool.

— Billie Eilish

I would love to collect [art] at some point, but I think the whole rap/art world thing is getting kind of corny.

— Drake

Hip-hop music has been my programming. It's been my love. When I was a kid, hearing Eminem, G-Unit for the first time,…

— Jesse Rutherford

I probably wrote my first rap when I was 10, maybe 11 or 12. And I shared it with my family immediately.…

— Jelly Roll