Rapper Quotes
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My only scheme was to be a rapper.
Marshall Bruce Mathers III Bad Meets Evil' -
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
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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 -
The best bounce rapper ain't gonna be able to compete with Jay-Z, not on a major scale.
Mystikal -
The employees of the year, yeah we back to work. I took time off, while other rappers got jerked.
Erick Sermon -
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 -
...The greatest rapper of all time died on March 9th. God bless his soul, rest in peace, kid. It's because of him now at least I know what beef is.
Canibus -
Just because someone has great content doesn't mean you like them as a rapper.
Talib Kweli Black Star
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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 -
Rappers are usually rapping about knowledge they think people need to get by in the world. If there's no movement that gives the idea that the knowledge people need is how to take over the system, what they see is that people need to know how to hustle; people need to know how to survive.
Boots Riley -
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' -
I will hit a man with glasses.
Marshall Bruce Mathers III Bad Meets Evil' -
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 -
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
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Being compared to Biggie, that's the best feeling a rapper could have.
Black Rob -
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 -
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 -
When white people wear baggy clothing and speak gibberish they're homeless, when black people wear baggy clothing and speak gibberish they're called rappers.
Carlos Mencia -
I told Wayne to his face he was the dopest MC out. MC, not rapper. I told him to his face because I believe that, Wayne is nice! Wayne is bananas with his lyrics, with his whole delivery, with his whole thing. Lil Wayne is the man!
Lawrence "Kris" Parker Boogie Down Productions -
I don't think I'd call myself a rapper.
Rex Orange County
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If I was with some other rappers who aren't as polished, or I was the only rapper, I don't think I would be where I'm, nor would I be rapping. They pushed me, we pushed each other on every record.
Schoolboy Q -
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 -
Almost every rapper has a track that talks about their dreams.
Boi-1da -
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