Rapper Quotes · Page 96

The thing about hip-hop today is it's smart, it's insightful. The way they can communicate a complex message in a very short…

— Barack Obama

If you're a black kid from the streets and somebody is rapping about parents not understanding, you'd laugh at that.

— MC Ren

I don't like calling it Christian rap. Titles are so limiting. It's hip-hop. I'm a rapper.

— Andy Mineo

I missed the old skateboarder Lupe Fiasco. I don't like the new, "rebellious, anti-government" Lupe.

— Anonymous

I like Meek Mill a lot. I listen to 'Dreams & Nightmares' introduction a lot. I always act crazy when the beat drops.

— Joel Embiid

I didn't want to be a rapper full time. You know, Big L kinda - God bless the dead - influenced me…

— Cam'ron

I always go to my Kanye [West], Jay-Z. I go back to alot of the stuff that I know for sure that…

— Jhene Aiko

Some guy was just like, 'You rap fast, man. Like a little machine gun,' and from that moment, I was Lil Uzi.

— Lil Uzi Vert

[Big K.R.I.T] is a person who wants to make sure that the music is here for the kids when our time passes.…

— David Banner

I'm the type of rapper - like, I'm never gonna let myself get washed up. I'm never gonna be in one area…

— Lil Skies

The fundamental message of the Wu Tang music is as vast as the ocean in all reality, but it's still a straight…

— RZA

I want people to follow their dreams, yes but I'm not interested in telling young black kids how to be rappers I…

— J. Cole

When I was still back in Cameroon, because I didn't know English, I used to listen to French rap all the time…

— Joel Embiid

Hip-Hop got turned into Hit Pop, The second a record was number one on the pop charts. But don't skip on the…

— MC Serch

When I was trying to upload my song that I had just recorded when I started rapping, I didn't know what name…

— Sexyy Red

I can't wait to see someone else from Louisville make a hit song 'cos that'd be dope. I can only imagine how…

— Bryson Tiller

When I rap, it's just an extension of how I speak, and that's how I talk. If you don't like it, don't…

— Azealia Banks

Run DMC brought us out of that underground-only feel. They brought rap above ground and made it respectable as an art form…

— Ice Cube

I didn't want to be one of these rappers that holds his chain up just faking like he has money. I wanted…

— Chamillionaire

My entryway into hip-hop was - my biggest introduction was obviously like, you know, the Def Jam, Run D.M.C., Beastie Boys, like,…

— Neal Brennan

I love being an example, that, hey, I'm young, I'm a rapper, and the gospel is the power of God for salvation…

— Trip Lee

All so convinced that you're following your heart cause your mind don't control what it does sometimes.

— Drake

I don't buy fancy things. I donated $2 million to Wu-Tang. I got a mixtape in return. It was a wonderful investment.

— Martin Shkreli

Hope you'll forgive me, never meant wrong. Tried to be patient, but waited too long. But I would've came back.. But I…

— Drake

I said I'd do a 'Shotta Flow 6' featuring Lil Wayne. That's the only way I'd come out of 'Shotta Flow' retirement…

— NLE Choppa

The first splurge that I did, I bought, like, an $80,000 watch, but that's because I'm a rapper. I need jewelry.

— Cardi B

I've always been a fan of music. I would say I'm a fan of late '90s to early 2000s rap. That's where…

— Tyga

In using the English language to create an entirely new art form, the pioneers of Hip Hop created a vessel that grew…

— Jamaal Bowman

Now if you call 'Ain't No Half-Steppin' ' or 'Raw' an old-school song, I agree with you. But if you call Big…

— Big Daddy Kane

Laugh now, cry later: this is the karma. Hip-hop never died, it's just sick of the drama.

— Cormega

I'm going to forever have a love for music. I just don't think I'm going to rap forever.

— Latto

I met Kendrick when I was younger but he's not really the flashy type. You'd never know if he had a dollar…

— Roddy Ricch

'New Slaves' is too real to me. It's like a freestyle of real talk, with the sickest beat. It's like the beat…

— Jme

If Obama's enormous symbolic power draws primarily from being the country's first black president, it also draws from his membership in hip-hop's…

— Ta-Nehisi Coates

Ludacris is a very smart individual. He's about his business. Everything is business with him. So I learned a lot about making…

— Anonymous

Public Enemy, It Takes a Nation of Millions to Hold Us Back is the straight-up peak of hip-hop. Straight-up one of the…

— Mr. Lif

I'm a huge fan of Jay Z. I listen to a lot of Nas, a lot of 2Pac. I like to listen…

— Bobby Wagner

When I'm in my rap mode, I'm probably gonna ride in a black truck or a nice car. But if I'm just…

— Sexyy Red

Hip-hoppers are not interpreting what hip-hop is, and when we do interpret it, we interpret it as something immature, unorganized, and outlaw.

— KRS-One

Hip-hop culture is probably one of the most powerful things to come out of America in a long time - everything from…

— will.i.am