Rapper Quotes · Page 59

Almost every rapper has a track that talks about their dreams.

— Boi-1da

When I first started rapping, I was like, 'I'm gonna be, like, the female Eminem.'

— Chanel West Coast

I've always treated my city like some shoulder pads.

— Drake

Hopefully, we learn to appreciate hip-hop here so that it doesn't go the way of jazz.

— Talib Kweli

Drake is super versatile. He always has a lot of emotional moments on his albums.

— Snoh Aalegra

I mean, Common was and is like my favorite rapper.

— Vic Mensa

I'm not rapping, I'm conversing. It's just a conversation between me and you.

— Snoop Dogg

You can be the coldest rapper, but if you're not known, you're nobody.

— E-40

I do think that hip-hop has a relationship with comic book culture, and Kung Fu movies too, for that matter.

— Ali Shaheed Muhammad

To me, rap music is bigger than who's the coolest rapper, the biggest rapper. It's everything about your personality.

— Diplo

Hip hop was definitely, far and away, the primary influence for at least 10 years of my life. From about 7 or…

— Alex Ebert

Trinidad Jame$ is the most garbage piece of rapper that has ever existed on the face of the earth.

— Hopsin

Why live for the approval of men when you can have the approval of their Creator? What can they give you that…

— LeCrae

I grew up around it. That was what my friends were listening to - some of my closest friends are big hip-hop…

— Dale Earnhardt Jr

The beautiful thing about hip-hop is that you can't overthink it,...As long as you got a nice, quality hook, let it go.

— 9th Wonder

It just happens to be that people like to associate poetry and rap music. I think that idea is kind of corny.

— Earl Sweatshirt

Public Enemy started out as a benchmark in rap music in the mid-1980s. We felt there was a need to actually progress…

— Chuck D

It's a big chip on my shoulder that I have not been to any of his parties - P. Diddy, Diddy Puff.…

— Emily Blunt

I guarantee if people keep mm..supportin' me…Just buying my records, goin to my concerts, just supporting me..I'ma keep givin' money…Like Makaveli, every…

— Tupac Shakur

When I say hip-hoppers, I mean black, white, Asian, Latino, Chicano, everybody. Everybody. Hip-hop has united all races. Hip-hop has formed a…

— KRS-One

The collaboration wish list is huge, very long. It goes from people like Elton John, for whom I have an unbelievable amount…

— Dave Koz

But I see now that whether I show up for work or not, the evil forces are going to beat me. They're…

— Tupac Shakur

I really like John Legend as an artist and as a person. As well as Lyfe Jennings. Jeezy is good people as…

— MC Serch

I think there is going to be a whole market and we'll start to see hip-hop jewelry regularly in jewelry auctions around…

— Simon de Pury

My first words was thug for life and papa pass the mack

— Tupac Shakur

When I say R&B is dead, I'm pretty much saying the creativity is gone.

— Sisqo

As a child, I did not dream of being a rapper.

— Too Short

I believe hip hop is being used in some mass way to influence underachievement.

— Cee Lo Green

We just recently saw Bruno Mars at the Hollywood Bowl, and he was incredible.

— Bebe Rexha

I always did poetry, and [rap music is] pretty much hip-hop melody with poems.

— Tiffany Foxx

And you're wasted with your ladies. Yeah I'm the reason why you always getting faded.

— Drake

I had to Derrick Rose the knee up before I got the re-up

— Drake

I'm no longer the young guy in No I.D.'s studio asking for Kanye beats.

— Logic

Once you're hiphop you're hiphop, it's in my blood it's not going anywhere.

— Heavy D

I didn't tell anybody that I wanted to rap when I was in high school.

— Megan Thee Stallion

Anybody can be a rapper, but not anybody can be a classical artist.

— Nas

I feel close to [Kanye West]. We're friends, this is not just a working relationship.

— Young Thug

RZA is one of the most unique individuals and rap artists that I have worked with.

— El DeBarge

I'd love to work with Frank Ocean. I really like his music.

— Ludwig Goransson

Unless life is one giant rap battle, you don't need to freestyle your way to success.

— Luvvie Ajayi