Rapper Quotes · Page 89

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

— Childish Gambino

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

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

— Ariel Rechtshaid

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

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

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

— Jay Rock

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

“While the patriarchal boys in hip-hop crew may talk about keeping it real, there has been no musical culture with black men…

— bell hooks

I used to do the beat box. A friend of mine, he was the rapper and after, we'd be doing a block…

— DMX

I don't profess to be a political rapper, like groups such as 'Dead Prez' or 'Public Enemy', but I think social commentary…

— Jay-Z

In this time, we incorporate money and media, and it's split up like apartheid, where when you say "hip-hop," you think just…

— Afrika Bambaataa

I like to compare the attitude and energy of an emerging start-up to that of the early hip-hop era. From working at…

— Troy Carter

One thing I'll say about Drake is that he never talks about me about going to any schools. I know people think…

— Zion Williamson

I'd like to see people pay attention to the science of hip hop. The knowledge part, the political side of what hip…

— Afrika Bambaataa

From the moment I started writing raps, I was always aware of the pressure. I always wanted to live up to how…

— Kendrick Lamar

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

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

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

— Jason Whitlock

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

The basic idea of a hero rising up to represent an oppressed or disenfranchised group of people is as true to hip-hop…

— Ali Shaheed Muhammad

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

— Cupcakke

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

— Da Brat

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

— PnB Rock

When I came up with KRS-One and Rakim, everybody had to step their lyrical game up to build a fan base.

— Big Daddy Kane

Couples Therapy' is pretty big for me because it's opening the door to a new audience - a hip-hop following, which I…

— Carmen Carrera

When my Heart Can Beat No More I hope die for a principal or a belief that I have lived for

— Tupac Shakur

Very intsirapional! Very intsirapional!But let me tell you The FUNNIEST part Diddy You can't stunt like Baby.Lil Wayne That's impossible!LOL!

— Parendi

I think a number of the leaders are, whether you like it or not, in the hip-hop generation. And when they understand…

— Maya Angelou

You can do hip-hop no matter how old you are. It's about relating to people, and the older artists have something to…

— B-Real

We live in an era where it ain't about dope rhymes. When beef is online, and how big is your co-sign...

— Jon Connor

I don't know how the rap game is, because I'm a fan of reality, and the rap game's entertainment.

— Kevin Gates

Everybody say I give them Pac vibes. I ain't gonna lie: I ain't really grow up on Pac, but I kinda see…

— Kodak Black

I learned how music works dealing with Jermaine Dupri, and I learned how image works dealing with Puff Daddy.

— Usher

My favorite soul artist, I would have to say D'Angelo. That's R&B, soul. Trap artist, I would probably have to say...Young Thug.

— Bryson Tiller

Rap comes from the oral tradition. The oral tradition gives voice to those who would've otherwise been voiceless.

— Benjamin Zephaniah

I can mingle with the stars and throw a party on Mars I am a prisoner, locked up behind Xanax bars

— Lil Wayne

And of Kanye's [West]? I have to say [I love] his heart. And I've always loved his legs.

— Kim Kardashian

Let the voice be the voice of the voiceless and let it come from the world of rap music to keep the…

— Chuck D