Rapper Quotes

• If you admire somebody, you should go ahead and tell them. People never get the flowers while they can still smell them.

  

  Kanye West
  • People
  • Flower
  • Smell

• In the history of the hip hop world...there has been one, single, solitary human being in the history of the world. One female rapper to sell more albums than me in the first week.

  

  Nicki Minaj
  • World
  • History
  • Single

• I was a rapper. The reason I stopped rapping was because I realized that people wanted guys like Puff Daddy. That's not what I do. I quit. That was it. I had to sacrifice for my choice. I said, 'Forget it. I'll be a producer.' Nobody was going to make me do anything.

  

  Ernest Dion Wilson
  • Forget
  • Sacrifice
  • Realized

• Take emceeing, one of the foundations of hip-hop culture. A guy grabs a mic, steps up on stage and becomes a spokesman; the voice of the people. If anything, that might be the strongest similarity between hip-hop and comic books, with super heroes, like many rappers, fighting to make a change.

  

  Ali Shaheed Muhammad A Tribe Called Quest
  • People
  • Book
  • Guy

• I feel like people mislead themselves when they tell themselves they're into me because of the lyrics. From my vantage point, people aren't into me because of the content, because of the lyrics. Because there's a million of rappers who have great content.

  

  Talib Kweli Black Star
  • People
  • Feels
  • Mislead

• Watching ass-stupid neocons glom on to a bipolar rapper because his incoherent word salad actually reflects their insipid worldview has been a treat.

  

  Aesop Dekker
  • Treat
  • Rapper
  • Worldview

• It seems like I have more in common - or hit it off better - with rappers than fools that are in rock music. It was always natural for me.

  

  Travis Barker Blink-182
  • Fool
  • Common
  • Rapper

• If there's no deals being made rappers, what happens to the lawyers. They've got to close their firms, they can't make no money. How can they make money from the client now? Litigation!

  

  Robert Fitzgerald Diggs Achozen
  • Lawyer
  • Deals
  • Firm

• There just needs to be a gay rapper who's better than everybody. That's when that question will no longer be able to be asked.

  

  Talib Kweli Black Star
  • Gay
  • Needs
  • Able

• The employees of the year, yeah we back to work. I took time off, while other rappers got jerked.

  

  Erick Sermon
  • Rapper
  • Employee

• The best bounce rapper ain't gonna be able to compete with Jay-Z, not on a major scale.

  

  Mystikal
  • Compete
  • Major
  • Bounce

• I can rap in a London accent, make weird faces, wear spandex, wigs, and black lipstick. I can be more creative than the average male rapper.

  

  Nicki Minaj
  • Black
  • Weird
  • Creative

• My only scheme was to be a rapper.

  

  Marshall Bruce Mathers III Bad Meets Evil'
  • Rapper
  • Schemes

• I looked at the rap community like street kids wanting their own brand. But now I look at that period with the rappers in the 90s as a trend of the moment. What it taught me was never to follow a trend, because trends move on.

  

  Tommy Hilfiger
  • Kids
  • Community
  • Moments

• You know, fame is a funny thing, man, especially, you know, actors, musicians, rappers, rock singers, it's kind of a lifestyle and it's easy to get caught up in it - you go to bars, you go to clubs, everyone's doing a certain thing... It's tough.

  

  Marshall Bruce Mathers III Bad Meets Evil'
  • Men
  • Funny
  • Kind

• There are so many rappers now that it's cluttering our culture. 90% of the time at a show there are more artists in the crowd than there are fans - it's too much. Too many people try to give you CD's.

  

  Statik Selektah
  • Trying
  • Culture
  • Artist

• Just because someone has great content doesn't mean you like them as a rapper.

  

  Talib Kweli Black Star
  • Mean
  • Rapper

• You already past 21 and you still talking about "I'ma be a rapper." You ain't did one show, niggas ain't seen you on TV. So Kendrick kind of went through the same thing I went through. He just had his mom's house to go to.

  

  Schoolboy Q
  • Talking
  • Stills
  • Rapper

• Being compared to Biggie, that's the best feeling a rapper could have.

  

  Black Rob
  • Feeling
  • Rapper
  • Compared

• I will hit a man with glasses.

  

  Marshall Bruce Mathers III Bad Meets Evil'
  • Men
  • Glasses
  • Rapper

• I think it's such open game to make fun of myself. First of all, as a white rapper you have to have an angle and not try to be ghetto or anything. You can count on one hand the white rappers that have made it.

  

  Dirt Nasty
  • Fun
  • White
  • Rapper

• What a lot of people don't know is that Wyclef started off as a battle rapper, when he decided that he would rhyme.

  

  Wyclef Jean Fugees
  • People
  • Battle
  • Rhyme

• I don't think I'd call myself a rapper.

  

  Rex Orange County
  • Think
  • Myself
  • Rapper

• If someone had said to me ten years ago "Yo, we have this role of this pimp who wants to be a rapper, he lives in Memphis", I'd be like, "Really?" But then when you read it and you see it, you say "That's a great role."

  

  Morris Chestnut
  • Role
  • Rapper

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