Rapper Quotes · Page 36

Hip-hop's dead yeah that's what Nas said to me. I guess that's hip-hop heads on salary.

— Wale

I didn't get into music until the early 90s when I heard rap music for the first time.

— Gonjasufi

I was trained in rap. I was trained in martial arts.

— Jackson Wang

Being simple and complicated at the same is what makes Jay-Z so great.

— Rapsody

There's two elements to rap: having the thoughts, and then being a great rapper.

— Drake

I want to relate. I don't want to just rap and go to the next album.

— Lil Durk

I'm not the rapper that's too cool to tweet and talk to fans.

— Logic

Kanye [West] is the hardest person to buy something for.

— Kim Kardashian

I drop longest verse more than the book of psalms…and every verse I drop in a track can kill lot of niggas…

— Glenshoun

The point of '777' is for the world to hear adult Key. Your favorite new rapper's favorite rapper, grown up. My job…

— Kenny Beats

Black Ken' debuted number one on iTunes in hip-hop, and top five or ten top, top five on the whole iTunes, on…

— Lil B

'Bitter Sweet Symphony' is one of the biggest hip-hop records of all time once you actually analyse it.

— Richard Ashcroft

Being a black rapper is like being a Southern, socialite woman: You're always worried about appearances.

— Killer Mike

I looked at people like Lil Wayne. I would go to the studio and I would observe Wayne, and I would literally…

— Nicki Minaj

My mom is the first female rapper I've ever known. I'm thinking, like, Okay, yeah, this is normal. Everybody's doing this.

— Megan Thee Stallion

I didnt grow up around all white people; I never wanted to gentrify hip-hop, Ive never wanted to speak to an all-white…

— G-Eazy

I think when hip hop first started, people were open to it, and groups like Public Enemy and there was groups like…

— Ice Cube

What's wrong with hip-hop [is that] it became so one-dimensional; it became like a businessman thing. It's run out of creativity. It…

— M.I.A

I feel like my place is to connect hip-hop... with the youth, the older, the middle. Just everybody that's listening to me.…

— Lil B

Hip-hop reflects the truth, and the problem is that hip-hop exposes a lot of the negative truth that society tries to conceal.…

— Busta Rhymes

People in rock had this idea that rappers aren't talented. In my opinion we're better writers, we think deeper, and our concepts…

— JPEGMAFIA

Of course, growing up, I was a big fan of rap so that was something that I got into. I was a…

— Kirko Bangz

Hip-hop is when you have crowd participation; when you chant at the audience and they chant back at you; when you wave…

— Flavor Flav

I say as long as the individual stays creative and continues to come up with fresh new and exciting ideas, rap will…

— LL Cool J

First time I met Drake was 2012 at a studio in Toronto.

— PartyNextDoor

It's kinda hard to be optimistic, When your homies lying dead on the pavement twisted.

— Tupac Shakur

I don't like rap that you can't understand. The youth is so quick and alert.

— Roy Ayers

I liked rap from a young age, from listening to MC Hammer and Vanilla Ice.

— Clint Dempsey

Hip Hop will always have a lane of its own, for those that appreciate the culture.

— Iceberg Slim

I took a chance with my heart and I feel it taking over

— Drake

I think that's what made rap such a stable footprint in culture, that it's so honest.

— Russell Simmons

The courage to be yourself is the essence of hip hop

— KRS-One

I made a Vine with 50 Cent where I smashed two quarters together, and he popped up.

— Jake Paul

I'm obviously not a rapper, and I don't have any claims to be one, really.

— Al Yankovic

Rakim is a great rapper, but, you know, he's not a battle rapper.

— Big Daddy Kane

Hip-Hop is my vehicle to scientific and universal enlightenment

— GZA

When I was a kid, I was just rapping about school and stuff like that.

— Joyner Lucas

I was trying to be the best rapper in the world. I wasn't thinking about acting.

— Ice Cube

I'm in the mood to get faded, so please bring your finest.

— Drake

I love songwriting, and rap is part of my songwriting, but I'm not a rapper.

— Amber Liu