Rapper Quotes
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I think people were genuinely addicted to hip hop in the 90s, addicted to the idea of empowerment. I think it came from [the fact that] the rappers in the 90s, their parents coming from the 70s, had such a rich variety of records to sample.
M.I.A.
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I guess I am a rapper. It's weird to be called that, or tell someone that's your profession.
Action Bronson
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I feel like that's what's going to be most respected at the end of the day, that I'm able to do so many different things and become less of a rapper and just more as a musician.
Juice Wrld
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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'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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If you're really a rapper, you can't stop rapping.
Ice T
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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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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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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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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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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 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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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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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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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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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 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'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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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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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