Rapper Quotes · Page 98

The Temple of HipHop has declared HipHop its own religion. We believe HipHop is divine. HipHop proves the existence of God.

— KRS-One

Favorite rap album? Damn. Lil Wayne's mixtapes... He got a lot of good mixtapes like 'Da Drought 3.'

— Jamal Murray

You are the Kim to my Marshall,your the Slim to my Shady, the Dre to my Eminem, the Alaina to my Hailie.

— Eminem

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

— Steve Stoute

By no means am I excusing homophobic rap lyrics, but as a product of the same environments that birthed hip-hop, I fully…

— Karamo Brown

Hip-hop was indifferent to Broadway. We didn't need Broadway, but I think Broadway needed hip-hop.

— Daveed Diggs

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

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

— Lil Wayne

I used to be focused on being the dopest rapper in the game, and then once that became what I was, I…

— Snoop Dogg

Conservatives have rightly attacked rap for its misogyny, violence and over-the-top vulgarity. But it is important to remember that this music is…

— Shelby Steele

In order to make a change, I have to exist in a traditionally homophobic space such as hip-hop. If I were to…

— Kevin Abstract

I've been producing records, and as early as my late teens, early 20s, I put out a hip-hop record and then the…

— Balthazar Getty

In the history of the hip hop world...there has been one, single, solitary human being in the history of the world. One…

— Nicki Minaj

It does feel like sometimes that I'm the outcast. Hip-hop doesn't want to mess with me because I'm Christian and Christian music…

— Trip Lee

There's not too many artist that can handle what we would call an Christian R&B sound. It's kind of a limited field…

— LeCrae

The thing about hip-hop is, like, that the instruments were taken out of schools. But - you might have taken the instruments…

— Kamasi Washington

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

— Lil Yachty

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

— Drake

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

— Afeni Shakur

“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 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

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

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

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

— Everlast

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

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

— Mannie Fresh

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

— Erick Sermon

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

— Tupac Shakur

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

— Jelly Roll

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

— Drake

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

— Billie Eilish

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

— KRS-One

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

— Travis Scott

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

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

— Young Thug

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

— Jelly Roll

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

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

— LeCrae