Rapper Quotes · Page 70

All these rappers wack but I don't ever see 'em close. The illest mothafucka in it we don't need to vote.

— Mac Miller

I just hold it down for my side, I just hold it down for my set. I just give everybody a piece…

— Drake

I really appreciate the moments that I was able to win rap album of the year or whatever.

— Kanye West

I'm confused tell me where we go wrong? I was sure that I would be with you for so long.

— Drake

Growing up, I heard as much E-40 and Mac Dre on the radio as I did 50 Cent. It's in our culture…

— G-Eazy

When Zaytoven and Future are working together, then Future's not working on no other tracks, and Zaytoven's not making no beats for…

— Zaytoven

Until black culture as a whole is effectively disentangled from the python-grip of hip-hop, and by extension the street, we are not…

— Thomas Chatterton Williams

And I loved Fats Waller. I love his instrumental abilities, his vocal abilities and his sense of humor.

— Paul McCartney

When 'Raw Like Sushi' came out in the U.S., I wasn't considered to be black enough. They didn't really know where to…

— Neneh Cherry

People see the 'Lil' Wayne' persona and think they know who he really is. My son's father is an intelligent, loving and…

— Lauren London

I grew up around a bunch of rappers and street dudes and they were always like: 'yo! She's a little different but…

— Tierra Whack

I mean people are sexist and racist and homophobic and violent. But I don't think of the rappers as being any more…

— Russell Simmons

I think that hip-hop has done what it was supposed to have done, which is it defied all the laws of what…

— Monie Love

Ever since I was a kid, I was always a fan of hip hop. If you get your limelight whether your sixteen…

— Lil Mama

We don't need no more rappers, we don't need no more basketball players, no more football players. We need more thinkers. We…

— Tupac Shakur

Now, [hip-hop/grime artists] Stormzy, Skepta, or the Section Boyz have to be validated by Drake, Rihanna or Beyoncé. They're rolled into this…

— M.I.A

I didn't really grow up on hip-hop. Ella Fitzgerald and the old school jazz divas are more my comfort zone.

— Gugu Mbatha-Raw

I've always been a huge Tupac fan, and I often listen to him for inspiration or when I'm stuck.

— Angie Thomas

I want to set the record straight that I did not learn how to speak English by listening to rap.

— Jon Rahm

I grew up looking up to DJ Premier, who would have the illest hip-hop joint on everybody's album.

— Statik Selektah

I guess cause i'm black boy, I'm supposed to say 'peace', sing songs, and get capped on.

— Tupac Shakur

But I've been freestyling and messing around with rhyming since I was 13. That's when I really started listening to hip-hop music.

— John Cena

I'm under the radar. I don't live like a rapper. If I don't gotta go to the studio then I'm just living…

— Sexyy Red

Working with Pharrell was a dream... Collaborations like that are where you come up with sounds that maybe you wouldn't have found…

— Rosalia

When I started DJing, because everyone called me 'Snake' in my city first, I was like, 'DJ Snake - OK, let's go…

— DJ Snake

Any rapper will tell you when you're working with someone like Cole, it's like a match of wits. You gotta go crazy,…

— Benny the Butcher

Wrestling has grown so big... it's almost a culture. And it's a culture of all types of vibes, just like hip-hop has…

— Jam Master Jay

My flow follows sometimes what's going on in the hip-hop industry even though I'm speaking Jamaican patois.

— Sean Paul

People don't really call me a rapper. They call me Mr. 'Trap Queen'. The 'Trap Queen' Guy.

— Fetty Wap

If a hip-hop artist can get on stage and entertain an arena full of 30,000 people and keep their attention for 45…

— Redman

People so obsessed with being real in hip-hop because they don't want people to think that they're lying.

— Tee Grizzley

I don't feel that rap has been respected as an art form. Because people have seen rappers rap off the top of…

— Ice T

All good niggers, all the niggers who change the world, die in violence. They don't die in regular ways.

— Tupac Shakur

The first rap CD that I had, it was so different for me. The energy, the wordplay, all that caught my attention,…

— Bad Bunny

I saw an interview with Jay-Z where he said he didn't write down any of his lyrics, so I tried that.

— Travis Morrison

I didn't study no rappers when I was coming up. I was studying moguls. I was studying Jay Z. I was studying…

— Yo Gotti

I really didn't even pick producers. I just picked beats, except for Dre - he's the only producer I knew I wanted…

— Nate Dogg

Biggie and Big Pun were the best storytellers of the '90s. I would get wrapped up in the narrative of what they…

— Lin-Manuel Miranda

I used to prefer rapping over singing, but now I'm a little 50/50 about it. I like doing both, a lot - equally.

— D-Pryde

I would not consider myself to be a quote unquote real New York rapper. I don't even like New York rappers.

— ASAP Rocky