Rapper Quotes
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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 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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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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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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If you're really a rapper, you can't stop rapping.
Ice T
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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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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 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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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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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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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 was a producer and rapper before Linkin Park. Once the band took off, it was the center of my focus. A couple of years ago, I started missing doing straight-up hip hop, and that's when Fort Minor began.
Mike Shinoda
Linkin Park
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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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You were put here to protect us.
But who protects us from you?
Lawrence "Kris" Parker
Boogie Down Productions
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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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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
