Rapper Quotes · Page 78

I wouldn't agree with people saying Lil Wayne is wack, you know what I mean? Because I've heard Lil Wayne records many…

— Kool G Rap

I never wanted to be known as a local rapper. Not downing anybody, but you know Gucci, that's cool to me, but…

— Cyhi the Prynce

How many niggas want to be involved, see I was only talking Biggie, but I'll kill all of y'all.

— Tupac Shakur

I first started rapping when I heard the Sugarhill Gang in 1979, when I was 11 years old in seventh grade.

— E-40

One of the first production deals I signed, the guy wanted my name to be Minaj and I fought him tooth and…

— Nicki Minaj

Throughout my rapping career, I always cooked for myself and anyone I worked with. It's what actually kept me grounded through those…

— Coolio

I get offended when people say, 'So, being a white rapper...and growing up white...after being born white...' It's all I ever hear!

— Eminem

I feel like rap fit me better. I could hoop. I could have went and did that, but this is my lifestyle,…

— Dave East

There are thousands of Eminems. Just listen to a song. There are thousands of them. It's just that he had the talent.…

— Jimmy Iovine

Sometimes I'm just a little bit too honest. There was some things that were going on behind the scenes that I didn't…

— Wale

The difference between blues, jazz, rock n' roll and rap is that rap stayed poor. Even the white rappers are poor. It's…

— Russell Simmons

I advise everyone to find an island in this life. Find a place where this culture can't take energy away from you,…

— RZA

My most prized possession would have to be 'Trick It.' I did rap here and there with some songs before, but 'Trick…

— Dahyun

I don't want to do one of those records where it's like a compilation of a bunch of all sorts of rappers…

— Flying Lotus

I look at this world we live in now where someone like Lil Nas X can push forward his true self, full…

— Darren Hayes

I guess it's easier to bash rap artists than to talk about the country's real problems, such as the AIDS crisis, poverty,…

— Bushwick Bill

My favorite Eminem song is probably 'Lose Yourself' because I can relate to it a lot. That's how I feel every time…

— Prodigy

I always envisioned myself being a rapper and being in the game and having success, but you never know what it feels…

— Wiz Khalifa

We've been branded 'the thinking man's hip-hop.' So the music's got to have some level of maturity.

— Black Thought

Kanye's the best. He really, really is. He's cool. And why we've always gotten along is because we can just sit down…

— Virgil Abloh

I never really told anybody that I'm a rapper. I wasn't walking around being like, "Yo, check out my mixtape!" It was…

— J. Cole

The whole history of music has turned out to be something perfect. It's all come around. The music we did with Funkadelic…

— George Clinton

There's not enough people being daring and different. There are a lot of followers in hip-hop.

— Biz Markie

Lil Wayne was a big inspiration. Started listening to him like 6 years old. His lyrics are crazy, his wordplay and how…

— NLE Choppa

The Temple of Hip-Hop makes sure that we don't just approach hip-hop just through music or through rap. We approach the totality…

— KRS-One

Hip-hop has never had boundaries - the more adventurous it is, the more popular it seems to be.

— Ariel Rechtshaid

Hip-hop is universal now, it's all commercial now. It's like a circle full of circus clowns up in the circuit now.

— Eminem

Talk dont make it happen. I do not talk, I am just a rapper. Too tight need muscle relaxer. Im whats next,…

— Childish Gambino

Shout out to J. Cole. We come from the same type of struggles. He put the real in his music, I put…

— Jay Rock

Frank Ocean is super dope! He's like a ghost. He's, like, not really real. I didn't think he was real until I…

— Lil Yachty

Tupac and I were just close friends because we had such an insatiable drive and passion for acting and entertainment.

— Jada Pinkett Smith

Rappers and MCs have always had an alias. Building your character, it helps you to get things out.

— Dizzee Rascal

I always do my rap from the outside looking in. Like I do my rap as if I'm looking at me rap.

— Lil Wayne

Atlanta is Exhibit A in my belief that the marriage between hip-hop and sports is a failure.

— Jason Whitlock

You can write a great country record and still be angry. Who's angrier than Toby Keith? He's angrier than the average 10 rappers.

— Chris Rock

I only know English, so I feel like I can be the dopest French rapper ever if I learned French.

— Cordae

If I wasn't involved in this hip-hop sh*t, I'd probably be breakin' the law to eat and feed my family and maintain…

— Nipsey Hussle

Lil Uzi and I gave Philly different sounds by stepping outside of the box and not sticking to the stigma.

— PnB Rock

Teddy Riley was telling everyone I was his female rapper, but he never came through. And Michael Bivens promised me all kinds…

— Da Brat

I grew up with Chief Keef and Lil Reese. We all lived in the same environment, I went to school with them…

— Cupcakke