Rapper Quotes

• 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.
  • People
  • Thinking
  • Parents

• 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
  • Thinking
  • Information
  • Rapper

• Not everybody is a great rapper; not everybody lives for the art of lyricism.

  

  Wale
  • Great
  • Art
  • Rapper

• 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
  • People
  • Work
  • Trying

• I secretly want to be a rapper!

  

  Rachel Bilson
  • Want
  • Rapper
  • Secretly

• If you're really a rapper, you can't stop rapping.

  

  Ice T
  • You
  • Stop
  • Rapper

• I'm not a rapper; I'm an artist. And I'm more than an artist. I'm a brand.

  

  Lil Yachty
  • Artist
  • Brand
  • Rapper

• 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
  • Stupid
  • Causes
  • Easier

• I guess I am a rapper. It's weird to be called that, or tell someone that's your profession.

  

  Action Bronson
  • Profession
  • Rapper

• 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
  • Fun
  • Rap
  • Means

• 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
  • Different
  • Day
  • End

• 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
  • Sun
  • Sky
  • Stars

• These broke rappers always rappin bout a pink truck. I'm only happy when I'm hoppin out the Brinks truck.

  

  Nicki Minaj
  • Money
  • Happy
  • Pink

• I would never challenge any rapper to a rap-off. It's weird, I'm not that type of rapper.

  

  Donald Glover
  • Challenge
  • Weird
  • Challenges

• 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
  • School
  • Radio
  • Freestyle

• 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
  • Good
  • Made
  • Thing

• I'm proud of everything I do, but I think I'm the most happy about becoming a rapper. It was my entrance into everything. That helped me get into acting.

  

  Queen Latifah
  • Happy
  • Think
  • Proud

• 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

• But, by just being myself, I end up touching a lot more people who might never have paid much attention to a female rapper.

  

  Nicki Minaj
  • People
  • Up
  • Attention

• Marlon Brando is not a gangster-actor, he's an actor. Axl Rose and them are not gangster rock-and-rollers, they're rock-and-rollers right. So I'm a rapper, this is what I do. I'm an artist.

  

  Tupac Shakur
  • Rapper
  • Gangster-Actor
  • Rock-and-Rollers

• I'm a worldly angel, meaning I've adjusted to the ways of the world, even though I am a child of God. I wouldn't consider myself a Christian rapper, but if we were Christian rappers, we would kill.

  

  Aaron Dontez Yates
  • God
  • Angel
  • Rapper

• There are some rappers out there that I listen to, that I'm like: "You are really good but you could be like the Michael Jordan of rap if you applied yourself." There's a lot of people who are better at basketball than Michael Jordan, but Michael Jordan just wanted to be Michael Jordan, more.

  

  Donald Glover
  • People
  • Good
  • Basketball

• 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
  • Focus
  • Producer
  • Center

• I used to have visions of being a star all the time, but I never knew I wanted to be a rapper.

  

  Lil Yachty
  • Star
  • Rapper
  • Visions

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