Rapper Quotes · Page 83

I'm a rapper and an artist, but I'm a human. That's what people forget. That's why I try to make them remember.

— Rod Wave

I feel like Hip Hop culture has always been about [fashion]...it started in the street so it has always been a thing…

— Pusha T

When I was on Arsenio Hall's show, he asked me about working with Kanye West or John Legend. I said I'd love…

— Gladys Knight

Jay-Z and Kanye West are to authentic rap culture what diseased rates were to 14th century Europeans

— Dean Cavanagh

Everyone has a little niche in rap, and I just wanted to carve a piece out of it for myself.

— JPEGMAFIA

I was a bit of an outsider in the hip-hop world because I was a scratch kid and people weren't necessarily trying…

— A-Trak

Everything affects hip-hop. The question is, how does it affect the money that corporations are going to invest to put out different…

— will.i.am

The thing that's good about Hip Hop is that it has experimented with a lot of different sounds and music.

— Afrika Bambaataa

I have a respect for Young Jeezy. But the reason things didn't work out for me and Young Jeezy was because our…

— Freddie Gibbs

“My Favorite rapper Tupac Shakur.. Philosophical... The emotional depth of his lyricism. Rest in peace. So sad when I listen your music.…

— Crystal Evans

As far as hip hop, I ain't even gonna front, it was 'Rapper's Delight.' That was the first thing I heard where…

— Madlib

It's crazy how Tech N9ne was back home in L.A. He knew about my situation, what I was doing, trying to find…

— Jay Rock

Everybody seen me talking to Frank Ocean, so they know something is coming, so something is coming with Frank Ocean - just…

— Rich the Kid

Even though hip-hop started as a battle format, different artists appeared on each other's records or hung out in the same clubs,…

— Mike D

Now it seems like hip hop belongs to the people you see in the videos and radios. So I want to give…

— Rakim

The objectification of females is not a good thing! Not every rapper does this, but when the lyrics focus solely on the…

— Queen Latifah

I want my money to be different. I'm not trying to have rapper money. My goal is to be able to get…

— Future

She [Benzino] is obsessed with me. I never would think I would see the day when I seen the worst rapper in…

— Eminem

When I find something good, I stick to it for like a month. I'm usually late on like other stuff. Kendrick Lamar,…

— Jhene Aiko

I tried to be a rapper. I tried to make beats before I got into comedy, and that's still one of my…

— Jimmy O. Yang

I fucked up the rap game and you ain't even know it. I just fucked what's her name and you ain't even…

— Kendrick Lamar

You take the quote from Sam Jackson about how he'll never work with a rapper, and I can understand where he's coming…

— Anthony Anderson

Snoop Dogg has this larger than life image which is so not true because when you meet him in person he's so…

— Chamillionaire

Hip hop's got 30 years of history and we wanted to show that. A lot of us grew up with it.

— Axel Alonso

Hip-hop has taken a lot of different routes throughout the years, man. I've been around since 1986.

— Rakim

I was just a kid in love with hip hop music. I love music. I love the culture. I wanted to be…

— Troy Carter

I think, in a lot of ways, Kanye's superpower is his weakness - if you tell him he can't do something, he's…

— Charlamagne tha God

There are people who have figured out the exact, you know, Kanye West formula, the mix between "Graduation" and "808s," and were…

— Kanye West

Sometimes I want to be completely outlandish and funny, but sometimes I feel the need to prove myself as a rapper.

— Lil Dicky

You know I’m the first rapper to adopt a tabby cat. You know I adopted straight from the ASPCA, you feel me?…

— Lil B

Jay Z and Biggie and Nas always listened to my direction. They listened and they applied it and I also listened to…

— DJ Premier

Growing up, you hear Tupac's music, it's kind of like... it goes without saying that everyone likes Tupac.

— Demetrius Shipp, Jr

I actually don't preoccupy myself with 'I'm going to do this kind of rap in this kind of genre' kind of thinking…

— J-Hope

I listened a lot to Eminem and Kendrick Lamar. I liked the music, and it did help with learning slang and how…

— Jon Rahm

I've done movies where I've had to cast actors and teach them to rap, and cast rappers and teach them to act.

— Craig Brewer

I know I've got a hard rap mixtape but I'm a rockstar, and I love pop music. It's not hard for me…

— Doechii

Wayne put me right here, that's who I get the paper wit. I hope that my success never alters our relationship.

— Drake

Anything Jermaine Dupri does is done strategically. He knows what he's doing. He's a genius.

— Da Brat

Drake, that's my brother right there. Big Drizzy. That's my guy there - he shows me a lot of love.

— Michael Dapaah

Ninety percent of the general public aren't gangstas, so all of the rappers aren't going to be gangstas.

— Freddie Gibbs