Hip-hop is a competition culture. It's based around, "My DJ is better than you. My graffiti artist is better than you." — Ice T Copy Share Image
Pac never had a license. He would mysteriously pop up with all these cars like, 'Get in. We're goin' to jail!' I… — Scarface Copy Share Image
One thing that I like to do is use words that have never actually been used in a rap song before. I… — Kanye West Copy Share Image
I think it would be different to work with a guy like Kanye West or Jay-Z, those guys are so phenomenal, but… — Tiesto Copy Share Image
I dont think you should go around talking trash about people because I think thats how you get your hat handed to… — LL Cool J Copy Share Image
Traveling around is what I Like to Do. Me And my boy Arab we live on the road. Doing shows is what… — Soulja Boy Copy Share Image
Some people are saying Bill O'Reilly exaggerated his war experience in the 1980s. People became suspicious because O'Reilly said he was injured… — Conan O'Brien Copy Share Image
I dream of collaborating with Q-Tip and Timbaland - it's all producers. I'd really like to work with Drake and DRAM. The… — Amber Mark Copy Share Image
When I meet pastors, I'm not like, 'Hey, you should go out there and be a rapper.' Because for so many of… — Trip Lee Copy Share Image
I think hip-hop has changed. When I first came out, hip-hop was more of a kind of way to learn about new… — Ice Cube Copy Share Image
The key moments in your life are when you realize how exciting music can be, like when you hear Nevermind for the… — Sune Rose Wagner Copy Share Image
Everyday it's a new rapper, claimin to be dapper than the Dresta, softer than a bitch but portray the roll of gangsta,… — Dresta Copy Share Image
I think you gotta always do things that keep you excited in an [rap music] industry that's so bullshit. When you know… — Nas Copy Share Image
Then instead of introducing Dre as the guy from N.W.A., Jerry Heller would say Dre was my producer! Dre would come to… — Michel'le Copy Share Image
Brother Kendrick Lamar: he's not a rapper, he's a writer, he's an author. And if you read between the lines, we'll learn… — Kendrick Lamar Copy Share Image
It doesn't matter what race you are. It doesn't matter what religion you are. I always tell people: If you want to… — Immortal Technique Copy Share Image
You guys are always going off about how much money you have. Do you realize what's going on in this world right… — Asher Roth Copy Share Image
But with rap music - not just N.W.A. - but rap music in general, seeing these artists wearing these team logos all… — Ice Cube Copy Share Image
So my thing is we want come in and diffuse anything that's not real, anything that doesn't associate with real hip-hop. We… — Raekwon Copy Share Image
It seems other rap artists are trying to follow a "tradition", or something... I don't consider us [Migos] as weirdos, we just… — Quavo Copy Share Image
After the show, Micheal Cole is going to chase after some boy bands. Tazz, you need to calm down your man. He's… — John Cena Copy Share Image
Chance the Rapper: if you listen to his narrative and the subject matter he covers in his music, you can see that… — MC Hammer Copy Share Image
Hip-hop is the streets. Hip-hop is a couple of elements that it comes from back in the days... that feel of music… — Nas Copy Share Image
I've been following battle rap for a long time. Me and Daylyt are real cool. We battled on my album, he's on… — Ab-Soul Copy Share Image
Rap comes from the humble beginnings of rebelling against the status quo. Now, rappers have become the status quo themselves. You can't… — Chuck D Copy Share Image
I spent two years making music in San Francisco for my first mixtape. Initially, I was not at all doing this to… — Lil Dicky Copy Share Image
There was a time in the '90s where, as an African-American man, you had to be a misogynistic R&B star or a… — Billy Porter Copy Share Image
The methodologies of examining hip hop are borrowed from sociology, politics, religion, economics, urban studies, journalism, communications theory, American studies, transatlantic studies,… — Michael Eric Dyson Copy Share Image
I can rap. Not openly in the world, but it's important that people know! I can rap for a very specific reason,… — Allison Williams Copy Share Image
Sometimes I'm very disappointed at some of the people in our family of communicators, whether it be a songwriter or a rapper… — Stevie Wonder Copy Share Image
The weird thing about rap is that you don't get compared in the same way that athletes do, even though it's probably… — Chance the Rapper Copy Share Image
I consider myself to be an entertainer, given that I'm most known as MGK "the rapper" I don't have a problem with… — Machine Gun Kelly Copy Share Image
No matter how far you go, if you can't go back to the essence, you're not sayin' nothin'. The essence for me… — Wyclef Jean Copy Share Image
The stuff I rap about is what I've seen, you know? That's basically why I rap more about the struggle than the… — Boosie Copy Share Image
I remember crying all the time. My major thing growing up was I couldn't fit in. Because I was from everywhere, I… — Tupac Shakur Copy Share Image
I think the hip-hop purists are purists through and through. They're here to criticize all of us. That's just how it is.… — Nas Copy Share Image
Being materialistic is part of the hip-hop community's nature, because jazz and blues and rock 'n' roll, when they started out in… — Russell Simmons Copy Share Image
I really was very impressed with DMX during the whole experience on 'Romeo Must Die.' I like working with him. I liked… — Joel Silver Copy Share Image
I will say it's great - that Method Man - Cliff Smith - plays a rapper in a laundromat who is working… — Jim Jarmusch Copy Share Image
“Why is it that one can busta rhyme or busta move anywhere but you must busta cap in someone's ass? Is "ho"… — Christopher Moore Copy Share Image
![“I think you gotta always do things that keep you excited in an [rap music] industry that's so bullshit. When you know that you have so much energy and so much to give, it would be a shame if the facilitators of that aren't enthusiastic about you doing it, because you've been doing it for so long…” quote by Nas](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/aff/nas-650_bullshit_i-think-you-gotta-always-do-things-that_1957227.jpg)
![“It seems other rap artists are trying to follow a "tradition", or something... I don't consider us [Migos] as weirdos, we just went the other way and didn't follow the rap tradition. We just killed it and made it our tradition.” quote by Quavo](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/a3a/quavo-8176_art_it-seems-other-rap-artists-are-trying-to_3200979.jpg)
