Rapper Quotes
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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
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Money is important in the rap industry because you're always rapping to be bigger than the other person - bigger than who you're rapping to. A lot of my music is really, really, really humbled down. I don't have as much money as the average rapper, but I'm still good.
Russell Llantino
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I think thats what most of us rappers do too often. We put too much information in some of our albums that could actually be on the next ones.
Schoolboy Q
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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
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If you're really a rapper, you can't stop rapping.
Ice T
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Don't tell me what was said about me. Tell me why they were so comfortable to say it to you.
Jay-Z
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I'm not a rapper; I'm an artist. And I'm more than an artist. I'm a brand.
Lil Yachty
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I'm a ghetto man who made good. I never forgot where I came from and who put me on top - God and Jack The Rapper.
James Brown
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I used to have visions of being a star all the time, but I never knew I wanted to be a rapper.
Lil Yachty
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I feel like... I don't have a wife, I don't have a kids, but... I see rappers and I'm like, I know that's fake. I know how much you make, this is all bullshit. But people are buying into it, and you shouldn't have that power. I'm legit trying to make honest moves so that all of us can grow. I want to make a show where my sister can work on and become a producer because she can't get in, no one's leting her. I want to make things where people can actually grow. A place where people can actually be honest.
Donald Glover
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In the past it seemed like I was making fun of rap a little bit. But it was more me making fun of myself, since I'm not technically a rapper, whatever that means.
Beck
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My school had a radio show, and when I first decided to become a rapper, I was on there, and I would, like, freestyle.
Juice Wrld
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I secretly want to be a rapper!
Rachel Bilson
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These broke rappers always rappin bout a pink truck. I'm only happy when I'm hoppin out the Brinks truck.
Nicki Minaj
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No [other rappers are on my level], none of them. Here, let me put it like this in the sky, there are a million stars, but when the sun appears, you see none of them. I am the sun.
Lawrence "Kris" Parker Boogie Down Productions
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I get imaginative with a mouth full of adjectives, A brain full of adverbs, and a box full of laxatives, Shittin' on rappers, causin' hospital accidents.
Marshall Bruce Mathers III Bad Meets Evil'
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It's probably easier for rappers as far as a respect level. 'Cause with singers, the powers that be tend to feel that we're stupid.
Elgin Baylor Lumpkin
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It's like, boom! – I've got a girlfriend. It turned out to be a good thing because it made me a rapper.
Young Thug
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I would never challenge any rapper to a rap-off. It's weird, I'm not that type of rapper.
Donald Glover
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When you're dealing with TV and with movies, people dont take it as serious as they do with music. If a rapper does a song about shooting people on the block, and goes into a restaurant or grocery store, people grab their purses because they're afraid the person is violent. With TV and movies, people know it's okay, it's just a script.
Suge Knight
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You were put here to protect us. But who protects us from you?
Lawrence "Kris" Parker Boogie Down Productions
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I'm also working on another independent film called Roxanne, Roxanne, about Roxanne Shante, who was one of the first African American battle rappers from Brooklyn. It is produced by Forest Whitaker and Pharrell williams, so I'm really in great hands.
Nia Long
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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
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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