The first rap that I wrote was about my Maths teacher, and as expected, he didn't like it, but the students loved… — Badshah Copy Share Image
Hi, my name is best rapper alive and your mouth is the best crapper alive . Cause you talk shit, I get… — Lil Wayne Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
“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 Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
Everybody talks and everybody listens, and somehow the truth just always comes up missin. — Drake Copy Share Image
People bashed Drake based off the fact that he didn't suffer. Who cares! Do you like the music or not? — Lil Yachty Copy Share Image
I think people have gotten to know Tupac much better since he's been gone than they did when he was here. — Afeni Shakur Copy Share Image
I grew up on hip-hop. I grew up on Run-D.M.C., Whodini, LL when I was in college, so I'm more of a… — Stuart Scott Copy Share Image
It's all run by one person, but, real talk, Brandon McCartney is a book author, the Based God is perfect and Lil… — Lil B Copy Share Image
And just as you can find hip-hop lyrics beating up on all these groups, including young Black men themselves, the primary producers… — Bakari Kitwana Copy Share Image
When I was little I definitely listened to a lot of DMX and 50 Cent. Those were probably the two main rappers… — Lonzo Ball Copy Share Image
It's funny, a lot of people when they ask me do I do music, they think I'm a rapper. I tell them… — Caleb McLaughlin Copy Share Image
Whether you hear me come out with another album or whether you hear any one of the Clan members, we're always going… — Raekwon Copy Share Image
Haters keep hatin, u just mad cause I got more game, nd have fame with my name! see am the reason why… — DUB$TEPPER Copy Share Image
There's just something about being a young, working class, working poor, person of color in New York City in the 80's that… — Sofia Quintero Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
In subliminal ways, every song I do, there's something in it that I can attach to hip-hop directly. — Everlast Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
The employees of the year, yeah we back to work. I took time off, while other rappers got jerked. — Erick Sermon Copy Share Image
For those from my era, my age, that 2Pac vs. Biggie war will go on forever about who is the greatest. But… — Mannie Fresh Copy Share Image
Hip-hop belongs in the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. It's one of the most radical, revolutionary and reactionary music there is. — Steve Miller Copy Share Image
“In the words of a rap song my neighbor used to play on his boombox when I was a kid: Hold up,… — Mariana Zapata Copy Share Image
Well, I think that hip-hop is not just a music. It's really a culture and it's a way of life. — Thomas Chatterton Williams Copy Share Image
The Temple of HipHop has declared HipHop its own religion. We believe HipHop is divine. HipHop proves the existence of God. — KRS-One Copy Share Image
You are the Kim to my Marshall,your the Slim to my Shady, the Dre to my Eminem, the Alaina to my Hailie. — Eminem Copy Share Image
Favorite rap album? Damn. Lil Wayne's mixtapes... He got a lot of good mixtapes like 'Da Drought 3.' — Jamal Murray Copy Share Image
Nas has always been uncomfortable with being famous and accessible. Nas makes music because he loves music, not because he wants the… — Steve Stoute Copy Share Image
Hip-hop was indifferent to Broadway. We didn't need Broadway, but I think Broadway needed hip-hop. — Daveed Diggs Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
I spent a lot of time drawing and writing little comic books, and my mom was a rapper, so I would steal… — Megan Thee Stallion Copy Share Image
Growing up listening to rap music, you almost feel like you should have haters. That's an important part of being a successful… — Ezra Koenig Copy Share Image
Ima f-cking rap til you blue in the face, Youll probably turn into smurfs with the time that you waste! — Pusha T Copy Share Image
With rapping, that's just another form of expressing your music. Whether you're going to rap, you're going to sing, it's whatever you… — Mike Will Made It Copy Share Image
Hip hop is a human skill, and the practice of real hip hop should remind us of our humanity. — KRS-One Copy Share Image
Everyone's been on the "hip-hop is dead" campaign for years, and now it's the most unsure-of-itself genre ever. — Aesop Rock Copy Share Image
I like them brown, yellow, Puerto Rican, or Haitian Name is Phife Dawg from the Zulu nation — Phife Dawg Copy Share Image
I got to say hello to Snoop Dogg. I got to, I was being barged out of the way by his bodyguards… — George Michael Copy Share Image
Hip-hop is a beautiful thing. I think that the music genre itself has created more millionaires than any other music genre before… — Steve Harvey Copy Share Image
