Kim Nam-joon (RM) Quotes

I was an underground rapper and only 16 years old, a freshman at high school. Bang thought I had potential as a rapper and lyricist, and we went from there. Then Suga joined us.

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• I don't know how to be a rapper. I just know how to be me.

  

  Young Jeezy
  • Know
  • Me
  • Rapper

• People don't really call me a rapper. They call me Mr. 'Trap Queen'. The 'Trap Queen' Guy.

  

  Fetty Wap
  • People
  • Guy
  • Me

• I just kinda do what I feel. I never knew what lane I would fill, [or that] I would fill a lane at all. I didn't even really contemplate that far down the road. I just started having fun, and a lot of that came from me seeing Wayne dare to be different, and I started feeling like I can be a multifaceted rapper. I don't have to be a one-dimensional female rapper. Once I put that in perspective, it was like everything just got easier for me, because I no longer wanted to fit in anybody's box... I just wanted to be Nicki.

  

  Nicki Minaj
  • Different
  • Fun
  • Feeling

• When I grew up I saw females doing certain things, and I thought I had to do that exactly. The female rappers of my day spoke about sex a lot . . . and I thought that to have the success they got, I would have to represent the same thing. When in fact I didn’t have to represent the same thing.

  

  Nicki Minaj
  • Up
  • Success
  • Sex

• A lot of rappers want somebody to always sing on their records. If you can hold a note, they're gonna' ask you to come and be apart of their creativity. At that time, they were eager and on the streets selling drugs or in the studio making music. That was a big part of our lives were I grew up.

  

  Nicki Minaj
  • Up
  • Time
  • Music

• Some people actually said I fell off at Nellyville cause I didn't sell as many as Country Grammar. I'm like are you kidding me? Sweat and Suit? I broke history, I was the first rapper to have 1st and 2nd album at the same time ever on billboard.

  

  Nelly
  • People
  • Time
  • Country

• I think that's what makes a good rapper. Somebody who wants to push themselves and their audience further.

  

  Donald Glover
  • Good
  • Thinking
  • Want

• I feel like there's a lot of rappers that could out-rap me and I wouldn't want to face any of them.

  

  Donald Glover
  • Want
  • Feels
  • Rap

• I've got a million people telling me why I can't do it. You know, that I'm not a real designer, that I'm not this. I'm not a real rapper, either!

  

  Kanye West
  • People
  • Real
  • Why

• I felt like I was definitely robbed, and I refuse to give any politically correct bullshit ass comment. I was the best new artist this year.

  

  Kanye West
  • Artist
  • Years
  • Rapper

• I'm from New York and I love New York and I'm always repping New York, but what I represent is something deeper than just being a New York rapper.

  

  ASAP Rocky
  • New York
  • Rapper
  • Represent

• I think I write more outspoken than the average rapper.

  

  Keith Matthew Thornton
  • Thinking
  • Writing
  • Average

• You can be the coldest rapper, but if you're not known, you're nobody.

  

  Earl Stevens
  • Ifs
  • Known
  • Rapper

• Everyone always says I'm a rapper, and that I'm exactly like Peaches and M.I.A. People just take any female artist and compare me to them.

  

  Uffie
  • People
  • Artist
  • Rapper

• Now what we want to do is be able to attack, from the airplanes, their headquarters, their commanders which are underground so that we can stop the tremendous ethnic cleansing which is now taking place on the ground.

  

  Javier Solana
  • Place
  • Attack
  • Airplanes

• Important families are like potatoes. The best parts are underground.

  

  Francis Bacon
  • Families
  • Potatoes
  • Underground

• Straight from the heart, I represent hip hop I be three albums deep, but I don't wanna go pop Too many candy rappers seem to be at the top Too much candy is no good, so now I'm closing the shop.

  

  Malik Izaak Taylor A Tribe Called Quest
  • Music
  • Heart
  • Rap

• I'm a rapper but I'm a human being.

  

  Malik Izaak Taylor A Tribe Called Quest
  • Humans
  • Rapper

• My grades put me in about 5,000th place in all of South Korea. If I kept going down that path, I would've become a successful man with a regular job. However, I was positive I'd be number one in the country as a rapper. So I asked my mother whether she wanted to have a son who was a first-place rapper, or a 5,000th-place student.

  

  Kim Nam-joon BTS
  • Job
  • Successful
  • Rapper

• If this is airing in the future and no one knows who Karl Rove is - he's the reason you all live underground.

  

  Eugene Mirman
  • Future
  • Reason
  • Underground

• I prefer 100 per cent cotton Ts. They are kinder to lumps and bumps than figure-hugging stretchy Lycra ones and feel nicer against the skin. Extra-long-sleeved T-shirts are a lifesaver for me. I wear them either underneath a shirt with the sleeve pulled out of the cuff, or underneath gypsy tops, tunic tops and waistcoats.

  

  Lesley Lawson
  • Long
  • Gypsy
  • Cotton

• Conceit is a disease That the doctors got no cure They've done a lot of research on it But what it is, they're still not sure.

  

  Evan Esar
  • Research
  • Disease
  • Doctors

• I was an underground rapper and only 16 years old, a freshman at high school. Bang thought I had potential as a rapper and lyricist, and we went from there. Then Suga joined us.

  

  Kim Nam-joon BTS
  • Rapper
  • Underground
  • Lyricist