Rapper Quotes

After the Beatles and Dylan, there's this assumption that you are a singer-songwriter, or that if someone else is writing your rhymes, you're a fake rapper.

People said that way back in the early days I was probably one of the first rappers; the reason is that I couldn't sing, so I had to talk! Lou Reed was probably the one who started it all.

Guys pit female rappers against each other because female rappers - if you haven't noticed of late - are a lot more interesting than guys.

I take the typical words, or I pick a two-word, three-word pattern. One of the things I'm known for is I was one of the first rappers to end their bars rhyming multisyllabically.

Secrets you were telling everybody but me.. Don't be fooled by the money I'm still just young and unlucky, I'm surprised you couldn't tell

A good rapper is a good rapper, a good album is a good album. I don't think anyone is inherently good.

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

We rappers are role models.

I'm a minimalist in a rapper's body.

I do not consider myself the most stylish rapper out there.

My freestyling ability is nonexistent. I can't even write a verse if I tried to sit anywhere and write one. Being a good rapper is hard to do. I'm a good Rapaport, but that's about it.

I'm a big-time Fabolous fan. He's my favorite rapper ever. I hope to meet him one day.

I loved the hood and still love the hood but I had to realize like Ra you a rapper now you're in the public eye.

Rich people are so eccentric, and I don't think people really realize. Especially by the turn of the century, they were living like rappers.

The bottom line is, if every single platinum song right now wasn't auto-tuned, then I would be like, "I can't be a rapper."

I wish I was a rapper. There are certainly times when I wish I could just drop an album and channel all my ideas, anger, humor and energy into some music and be done with it.

So many other things for us to see, Things to be, Our history so full of tragedy and misery.

Mama raised a hellraiser why cry, That's just life in the ghetto, do or die.

To all the seeds that follow me protect your essence, Born with less, but you still precious.

Our unborn never got to grow, never got to see what's, next, In this world full of countless threats.

Should we cry when the pope dies, my request we should cry if they cried when we buried Malcom X

All good niggers, all the niggers who change the world, die in violence. They don't die in regular ways.

I said it in the beginning. That I was gonna take them niggaz out the game and sure enough I will. Already people can't look at Biggie and not laugh.

Though are hands are chained like they are, they haven't taken music from us yet. So that's how I'll fight. People tell me don't quit like everyone else. I wont have no fear.

My first words was thug for life and papa pass the mack

A rapper is about being completely true to yourself. Being an actor is about changing who you are.

I don't even like New York rappers.

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

Since I was a kid, I'd wake up every morning hearing a voice say, 'You're the greatest rapper ever.' I'm trying to prove that voice right.

Another thing rappers, I admire your rebellious spirit, but materialism is a form of mental slavery. Slow down on the jewelry, pick up a book.

I gotta feel alive, even if it kills me. Promise to always give you me, the real me.

Everybody got a deal, I did it without one

I had to Derrick Rose the knee up before I got the re-up

They just give me head while the haters give me promo.

Why can't rappers just say nice things? Like I wanna take your clothes off and hang them up in the closet real nice.

Don't want to hear my favorite rapper doin' a love song. If I want to hear something soft, I'll throw on Luther Vandross.

I would love to have a rapper on one of my songs, like Ludacris, or the 'it's so hot in here' guy, Nelly.

I am the beast, Feed me rappers or feed me beats

I'm in my dressing room about to play to a sold-out crowd at the O2 arena in Ireland. Name a female rapper who's ever done that and I will give you $100,000.

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.

To me, hip hop will never be right until female rappers have a stronger voice in it.

That's another thing yo rappers are scared to bring new styles out. There's so many different ways we can be flowing but everybody chooses to flow the generic way.

Amber London is a political rapper, a preaching rapper who speaks true facts and not just nonsense.

When I talk about money. All you see is the struggle. When I tell ya, I'm livin' large, you tell me, its trouble.

No longer living in fear, my pistol close in hand, Convinced this is my year.

And in turn I'm hostile guess you could call me anti-social. Niggaz shakin like they caught the holy ghost when I approach em.

The only thing America respects is power and power concedes nothing. After the LA Riots, they tried to calm us down and nothing changed since.

When I was at Upright Citizens Brigade, I would pretend to be a sad, drunk rapper.

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.

People get caught up in worshipping certain rappers, or they try to demonise hip hop by looking at what certain rappers are doin' in their lives.