Rapper Quotes · Page 95

I didn't want to be one of these rappers that holds his chain up just faking like he has money. I wanted…

— Chamillionaire

Run DMC brought us out of that underground-only feel. They brought rap above ground and made it respectable as an art form…

— Ice Cube

I love being an example, that, hey, I'm young, I'm a rapper, and the gospel is the power of God for salvation…

— Trip Lee

My entryway into hip-hop was - my biggest introduction was obviously like, you know, the Def Jam, Run D.M.C., Beastie Boys, like,…

— Neal Brennan

All so convinced that you're following your heart cause your mind don't control what it does sometimes.

— Drake

The first splurge that I did, I bought, like, an $80,000 watch, but that's because I'm a rapper. I need jewelry.

— Cardi B

I said I'd do a 'Shotta Flow 6' featuring Lil Wayne. That's the only way I'd come out of 'Shotta Flow' retirement…

— NLE Choppa

I don't buy fancy things. I donated $2 million to Wu-Tang. I got a mixtape in return. It was a wonderful investment.

— Martin Shkreli

Dabbing started with us - QC the label - Jose Guapo, Migos, Skippa Da Flippa, PeeWee Longway. When we performed, we just…

— Rich the Kid

I think people see me definitely as a "gangsta" rapper, and what people love about me is when they meet me and…

— Sheek Louch

You can have a phenomenal booth artist and he can get in there and be a technician in the booth and it…

— Joell Ortiz

There's a need for pop. There's a need for radio. There's also a need to understand the brilliance and the depth of…

— Pharoahe Monch

I could rap really good on accident. I talk tight and it just sounded... I don't know. It's just such a big…

— Goldlink

Rap was forbidden with the people who were interviewing us and the shows that I was getting [booked on], and I had…

— Michel'le

The only person who really impressed me with making new music is Cudi. Everyone else seems to be jumping on the same…

— Lupe Fiasco

I think you shouldn't get my music confused with who I am or who we are, because Yung Lean, from the beginning,…

— Yung Lean

Hope you'll forgive me, never meant wrong. Tried to be patient, but waited too long. But I would've came back.. But I…

— Drake

I've always been a fan of music. I would say I'm a fan of late '90s to early 2000s rap. That's where…

— Tyga

In using the English language to create an entirely new art form, the pioneers of Hip Hop created a vessel that grew…

— Jamaal Bowman

I'm going to forever have a love for music. I just don't think I'm going to rap forever.

— Latto

Laugh now, cry later: this is the karma. Hip-hop never died, it's just sick of the drama.

— Cormega

Now if you call 'Ain't No Half-Steppin' ' or 'Raw' an old-school song, I agree with you. But if you call Big…

— Big Daddy Kane

Believe the best about people. Pray for their short comings. You are not the standard. We all need grace.

— LeCrae

There are rap groups that have a positive outlook in their art. These groups should be shown as an alternative to gangsta…

— Kareem Abdul-Jabbar

And in turn I'm hostile guess you could call me anti-social. Niggaz shakin like they caught the holy ghost when I approach…

— Tupac Shakur

2 Pac...I really had genuinely brotherly love for Pac when I became a part of the Death Row family, he immediately ran…

— MC Hammer

I want everybody to feel comfortable with vibing with Drake. I don't want to limit my music to people based on their…

— Drake

The thing about hip-hop today is it's smart, it's insightful. The way they can communicate a complex message in a very short…

— Barack Obama

I don't like calling it Christian rap. Titles are so limiting. It's hip-hop. I'm a rapper.

— Andy Mineo

I missed the old skateboarder Lupe Fiasco. I don't like the new, "rebellious, anti-government" Lupe.

— Anonymous

If you're a black kid from the streets and somebody is rapping about parents not understanding, you'd laugh at that.

— MC Ren

I like Meek Mill a lot. I listen to 'Dreams & Nightmares' introduction a lot. I always act crazy when the beat drops.

— Joel Embiid

I didn't want to be a rapper full time. You know, Big L kinda - God bless the dead - influenced me…

— Cam'ron

When I rap, it's just an extension of how I speak, and that's how I talk. If you don't like it, don't…

— Azealia Banks

Some guy was just like, 'You rap fast, man. Like a little machine gun,' and from that moment, I was Lil Uzi.

— Lil Uzi Vert

I always go to my Kanye [West], Jay-Z. I go back to alot of the stuff that I know for sure that…

— Jhene Aiko

Christians aren't people who never sin or always do the right thing. We're people who live in continual repentance.

— LeCrae

I'm influenced by like, 50 Cent and Chief Keef 'cause they were rapping about the same things I was living.

— Fivio Foreign

Me as a person, man, I'm just rapping reality. Every time I get in front of the microphone I'm just speaking about…

— Yo Gotti

Went to church but don't understand it, they underhanded. God gave me these commandments, the world is scandalous.

— Tupac Shakur