Rapper Quotes · Page 39

I have a lot of respect for Eminem and Rihanna. They are both very real in their music.

— Bebe Rexha

I want to write just as much as Kanye may have for whomever Kanye has written for.

— PartyNextDoor

Hip-hop is not the problem, our reality is the problem.

— Kendrick Lamar

Make the most of your life instead of comparing it to everyone else's.

— LeCrae

Watsup dis lil scoot the famous rapper onlive…

— Lil Boosie

Dont blame me, I was given this world, I didn't make it.

— Tupac Shakur

I make soul music for hip-hop heads. It's music I'd want to sample if I were a rapper.

— Mayer Hawthorne

While They relax am In class,i stay In HipHop

— Omarion King

I grew up around hip-hop so I didn't think it was about being cool or being black or being white or whatever.

— Chad Hugo

The day Obama got into office, rap was less important because Obama gave kids an alternative. But will rap ever go away?…

— Jay-Z

It's all about the family tree, there's a family tree. You know Melly Mel birthed KRS-One, KRS-One I think birthed Tupac.

— Big Daddy Kane

Hip-hop is like underground. I don't know if hip-hop exists anymore. I don't know if it does.

— Theophilus London

When I was 24, I realized I could never be one of the best rappers, but I knew I had some of…

— Jesse Itzler

I don't advocate senseless violence of any human being. I'm the one who's been beat down. But I will not be a…

— Tupac Shakur

I'm really impressed every time Kanye comes to perform at 'SNL' because he finds a new way to make that space work…

— Sasheer Zamata

Early in my career, I was only being dissed by Chingy. Now, I'm being dissed by Eminem. Life is great.

— Charlamagne tha God

Because hip-hop has no requirements, you deal with people that have the least intelligence on the planet. Some of the people that…

— Curtis Jackson

The hip-hop that I really connected with was Public Enemy, KRS-One, Ice Cube, and N.W.A. That late '80s and early '90s era.…

— Jess Row

The rap game will never be at peace. The rap game is built upon competition. There will always be competition and as…

— Kurupt

I love when rappers have a off-beat, very abstract timing, and he certainly did.And any rapper who really approaches rapping with the…

— Solange Knowles

Hip-hop has crossed many boundaries and racial barriers, broken them down for people to come together, to listen to the music or…

— Afrika Bambaataa

My struggle and my story is very much so somebody that was just kind of [an] underdog. I didn't have any cosigns,…

— SonReal

I can do a whole project with Madlib and turn around and do a record with Gucci Mane. Gucci Mane, E-40, and…

— Freddie Gibbs

I would go back in time and do differently it is that. I would go back and ask, 'Why?' But I never…

— Michel'le

I believe being honourable lasts longer than rapping good.

— Killer Mike

I don't know where these rap guys get off trying to act so hard.

— Ivan Moody

This supposed to be yall year? We aint get the memo.

— Drake

I was listening to Chuck D, KRS, Rakim, Big Daddy Kane, all the greats, studying them.

— MC Ren

I don't listen to rap all the time. Even though I rap, rap can be nerve-wracking.

— E-40

I listened to Tupac and a lot of Biggie Smalls.

— Paul Pierce

People who say that music is dead or hip-hop is dead are refusing to evolve.

— Erykah Badu

I hope everybody out here is supporting hip-hop and trying to make it continue on.

— Big Daddy Kane

I heard you good with them soft lips.. Yeah you know word of mouth

— Drake

KRS One and LL Cool J are the biggest influences in my rap career, along with Heavy D.

— Fat Joe

I'm really like a rat in the rap game. I just drop stuff when I feel like it.

— Yung Lean

There are plenty of people who are, I think, completely racist who love hip-hop.

— David Byrne

I gave him his first TV and he needs to remember that.

— Kanye West

Rappers should sit down and construct quality lines.

— Gza

You cannot be from Atlanta and not know who Gucci Mane is, period.

— Playboi Carti

I appreciate this moment in time...ball players and actors be knowing my rhymes

— Common