Rapper Quotes · Page 92

I'm only Rich Homie when I got a microphone in my hand. If you see me outside, I'm just Quan. I just…

— Rich Homie Quan

I listen to Jay-Z, Nelly, Nas, Ludacris and all the young kids out there. I listen to them, and I have mad…

— Stephanie Mills

Anybody wherever I've ever been in my life, one thing they can always say good or bad, I was always doing music…

— The Kid Laroi

Back in the day, rappers were 'bump bump bump ba bump ba bump.' They was rhyming like that, but I was like,…

— Rakim

And did you ever stop to think that im old enough to go to war but i aint old enough to drink.

— Tupac Shakur

A lot of people wanted to try to make me the white Nicki Minaj. That’s not what I’m trying to do. I…

— Miley Cyrus

I like producing beats, and I like rapping, too. I have a program for the PC, and I can hook my keyboard…

— Jamie Waylett

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

I think hip-hop can be prophetic and progressive, and at the same time, the dominant forms tend to be homophobic, misogynistic and…

— Cornel West

If you hear people talking about the Golden Era of rap, they're usually talking about the early Wu Tang Clan era and…

— Gza

Gangsta Rap is dead. I've moved on. And the raps that I'm rappin to my community shouldn't be filled with rage? They…

— Tupac Shakur

The aggressiveness of it attracted me to hip-hop because I was angry inside. I was an angry kid because of the sickle…

— Prodigy

“I've tried to get the angel to watch MTV so I can learn the vocabulary of your music, but even with the…

— Christopher Moore

Everyday though, I'm just looking for like- I always ask people, What are you listening to? What sounds are good to you?…

— Jhene Aiko

Randomly enough, all of my favorite rappers growing up were East Coast rappers. I don't know. I just related to them a…

— Kyle

When I listen to hip-hop, I listen to Just Ice, Boogie Down Productions, Ultramagnetic MCs. I grew up in that age, and…

— MF Doom

Ima f-cking rap til you blue in the face, Youll probably turn into smurfs with the time that you waste!

— Pusha T

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

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

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

Hip hop is a human skill, and the practice of real hip hop should remind us of our humanity.

— KRS-One

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

I got to say hello to Snoop Dogg. I got to, I was being barged out of the way by his bodyguards…

— George Michael

I like them brown, yellow, Puerto Rican, or Haitian Name is Phife Dawg from the Zulu nation

— Phife Dawg

“Cuz even a gangsta rapper can find redemption For the sins committed before revelation.”

— Carlos Salinas

Hip-hop isn't dead by any means, but it's not something I define my black identity with.

— Justin Simien

I always had a big fan base on the Internet, but it wasn't as a rapper. It was just as, 'Nahmir.'

— YBN Nahmir

Kanye has been a good friend for ten years. He flew back from London to Los Angeles for 24 hours just to…

— Harley Pasternak

Working with Kanye is one of the greatest things ever. It's also one of the most nerve-wracking things ever. He's, like, the…

— Big Sean

I like the one where he believes everything bad you do comes back to you which is true. and oh my god…

— Tupac Shakur

Hip-hop music has been my programming. It's been my love. When I was a kid, hearing Eminem, G-Unit for the first time,…

— Jesse Rutherford

I probably wrote my first rap when I was 10, maybe 11 or 12. And I shared it with my family immediately.…

— Jelly Roll

I would love to collect [art] at some point, but I think the whole rap/art world thing is getting kind of corny.

— Drake

What inspires me about rap is that it's written in an almost poetic way. I just think it's so cool.

— Billie Eilish

The bottom line is, if every single platinum song right now wasn't auto-tuned, then I would be like, "I can't be a…

— Spencer Pratt

Kanye is the leading eagle: he's like the president who stands up for kids like us who have ideas.

— Travis Scott

[I like in Kanye West] confidence in him, but also his aggressiveness, ambition and charisma.

— Young Thug

The only time you had blacks, whites, and Latinos jamming together was in hip-hop. It's an unsung history.

— KRS-One

Many elitists hate rap as much as they hate country, though they don't like to admit it for fear of appearing racially…

— Will Shetterly

I'm a lifelong fan. There's not a white kid in the world who didn't listen to Eminem rapping.

— Jelly Roll