Lyrics Quote by Metta World Peace

I pay attention to lyrics and I know what rap fans care about. I try to write for the average listener and I'm conscious…

— J. Cole

I constantly think as an artist, as a rapper of what are the stories you want to tell? They can't all be, "I'm ill,…

— Himanshu Suri

It's funny, a lot of people when they ask me do I do music, they think I'm a rapper. I tell them 'yeah,' and…

— Caleb McLaughlin

It's not that I'm playing a rapper. I definitely feel like I'm a legitimate rapper. I just think that, who I am, there's more…

— Lil Dicky

I'm not really interested in rappers who talk about rap. I don't talk about it, and I don't like listening to other people talk…

— Paul Wall

I'm not a conscious rapper, all those things we talk about, the struggle, the pain, the outlook to the future, keep your head up.…

— J. Cole

Sometimes I want to be completely outlandish and funny, but sometimes I feel the need to prove myself as a rapper.

— Lil Dicky

I think the problem with people, as they start to mature, they say, 'Rap is a young man's game,' and they keep trying to…

— Jay-Z

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

— J. Cole

I honestly never sat down and said "OK, here's my style," because my whole thing was knowing everyone's style. Everything I've ever written has…

— Bun B

I'm putting everything on the line in being able to express myself in a different way than rappers normally do. They might say, 'It's…

— Nayvadius Cash

I care most about what rappers think about me as a rapper, and I've gotten a lot of praise. I think rappers understand I'm…

— Lil Dicky