Top 80 Best Rapper Sayings

#1. 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.

Alan Light

Best Rapper Sayings #2184
#2. I guess I am a rapper. It's weird to be called that, or tell someone that's your profession.

Action Bronson

Best Rapper Sayings #20488
#3. When I got a little older I was obsessed Lil Wayne. But then it was just as many British rappers - Dizzee Rascal I would always listen to.

Tinie Tempah

Best Rapper Sayings #24020
#4. I waltzed into the hall with my escort of five screws like some rapper with his well-paid entourage. A fiendish looking, little bastard with blonde hair and a crooked nose came up to me and said, 'Okay, Holland, welcome to Shotts. Welcome to the man-eater!

Stephen Richards

Best Rapper Sayings #24055
#5. As a rapper, you sort of act in music videos and in the persona you adopt onstage. You kinda have to put yourself out there and be courageous even to be a rapper. So, to step into acting was not that difficult a transition to make.

Queen Latifah

Best Rapper Sayings #25453
#6. Music can kind of make you one-dimensional. People see what's on the surface and what you rap about, and they make their decision on who you are from there.

Chance The Rapper

Best Rapper Sayings #25817
#7. Burnin' churches, fearin' God, Who can be so cruel, We all ignorant to AIDS, Till it happens to you.

Tupac Shakur

Best Rapper Sayings #26858
#8. I'm not a good rapper. For whatever reason, my brain does not work that way. I just do the beginning, like, 'Yeah, yeah! Ha ha! Woo! What up? Come on! Get at me!' I'm Captain Hook.

Adam DeVine

Best Rapper Sayings #29740
#9. Laugh with fake id's but i have permanent license of pain in eyes

Kjiva

Best Rapper Sayings #30718
#10. I was never actually signed to the label; I was just the annoying rapper that was always around at the studio sessions.

JD Era

Best Rapper Sayings #31007
#11. There was this rapper from New Orleans, Mystikal, who when I hear his music, I hear myself. Whenever I wanna get hyped, I put on Mystikal.

Anthony Mackie

Best Rapper Sayings #31044
#12. I make soul music for hip-hop heads. It's music I'd want to sample if I were a rapper.

Mayer Hawthorne

Best Rapper Sayings #32226
#13. I didn't introduce thug life to America. Thug life is America. I don't get why the whole world is fearing me. I am scared, but so are they. It's like I am having a panic attack cause I have 15,000 people wanting to do what I want, listing to everything I say.

Tupac Shakur

Best Rapper Sayings #38936
#14. The reason why rappers are living in - you know, driving in Mercedes-Benz's and living in neighborhoods is because they're selling their music, not just to the black community, but to the white community.

Eric Bolling

Best Rapper Sayings #45918
#15. And did you ever stop to think that im old enough to go to war but i aint old enough to drink.

Tupac Shakur

Best Rapper Sayings #46801
#16. I secretly want to be a rapper!

Rachel Bilson

Best Rapper Sayings #49026
#17. No rapper in the world from Jay-Z to Tupac to Biggie has 100 percent love on everything they do.

J. Cole

Best Rapper Sayings #59508
#18. Well, boo, how does bacon sound?"
"Bacon sounds great, but you can't call me boo."
"Why not?"
"Because you're not a rapper, and I'm not your shorty.

R.K. Lilley

Best Rapper Sayings #71769
#19. As a rapper, I feel like image is always important but even more so than image, I really love clothes, that's why I don't use stylists. I want to do it myself because I really love it.

Kanye West

Best Rapper Sayings #74973
#20. You have rappers saying "stay off drugs, go to school" - empty verbal behavior. I think all of this became institutionalized in the early '90s. And it's become more and more solidified, more and more entrenched.

Carl Hart

Best Rapper Sayings #78551
#21. My favorite rappers are Lil Wayne. I like Wayne.

Future

Best Rapper Sayings #80298
#22. When you're a Chicago artist, to play Lollapalooza, that's not a normal thing. It's artists on a path to a certain place that do that. Chief Keef did it; Kids These Days did it; Cool Kids did it. And I'm the next Cool-Kids-Chief, if you will.

Chance The Rapper

Best Rapper Sayings #84530
#23. Rap ain't out there for everybody; everybody can't be a rapper. Everybody can't be a singer; anybody can't just be a songwriter, but it may - there's some profession out there you can be in.

Juicy J

Best Rapper Sayings #96618
#24. Gangsta rappers, they call them. Not nearly as gangsta as the things that inspire them.. you know, a gangsta government that we operate under.

Russell Simmons

Best Rapper Sayings #99658
#25. I don't really have control over my direct impression on people anymore. I used to be the person putting my CD in people's hands. But I'm kind of a mainstream artist now. Not by choice.

Chance The Rapper

Best Rapper Sayings #100368
#26. I never wanted to be known as a local rapper. Not downing anybody, but you know Gucci, that's cool to me, but I want to be massive. I want to be Kanye. I want to be Eminem.

Cyhi The Prynce

Best Rapper Sayings #102353
#27. You know how a person is made for something? Eminem is made for hip-hop. The best rapper is a white man.

Curtis Jackson

Best Rapper Sayings #105707
#28. Even as a little seed, I could see his plan for me. Stranded on welfare, another broken family.

Tupac Shakur

Best Rapper Sayings #106796
#29. How can there not already be a rapper named 'O'pinion'?

Dov Davidoff

Best Rapper Sayings #129702
#30. I heard a rumor I died, Murdered in cold blood dramatized, Pictures of me in my final state, You know mama cried, But that was fiction, Some coward got the story twisted, Like I no longer existed, Mysteriously missin', I'm known worldwide baby, I ain't hard to find.

Tupac Shakur

Best Rapper Sayings #131442
#31. Work som', twerk som' basis. She just tryna make it so she's right here gettin naked. I don't judge her-I don't judge her. But I could never love her cause to her I'm just a rapper and soon she'll have met another.

Drake

Best Rapper Sayings #155082
#32. As a kid, I loved storytelling, and I liked the way rappers would paint pictures.

Jensen Karp

Best Rapper Sayings #155780
#33. I was trying to be the best rapper in the world. I wasn't thinking about acting.

Ice Cube

Best Rapper Sayings #157323
#34. 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.

Ice Cube

Best Rapper Sayings #160969
#35. One day I'm gonna bust, blow up on this society, why did you lie to me, I couldn't find a trace of humanity.

Tupac Shakur

Best Rapper Sayings #172772
#36. I think artists should be able to do different things whenever they want and I like the way I am. I'm like - I ain't gonna say the only street rapper, but the only mainstream, new, young street rapper there is right now and I'm doing well with it.

Meek Mill

Best Rapper Sayings #173908
#37. 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

Best Rapper Sayings #177106
#38. I really love when people come up to me on the street and say, 'You're my favorite rapper.'

Ludacris

Best Rapper Sayings #182839
#39. I think every rapper should know how to sing, like a little bit. I mean common man it'll make your rapping better straight up.

SonReal

Best Rapper Sayings #183093
#40. You know who was on time tonight, which surprised me? Ghostface. Ghostface was early and making calls - what rapper does that?

Donald Glover

Best Rapper Sayings #185379
#41. But I see now that whether I show up for work or not, the evil forces are going to beat me. They're going to come 100 percent, so if I dont be 100 percent pure-hearted, I'm going to lose. And thats why I'm losing.

Tupac Shakur

Best Rapper Sayings #192707
#42. With 'Acid Rap,' I allowed myself to be really open-minded and free with who I allowed into my musical space. I wanted to make a cohesive product, but I also just want to make a bunch of dope songs inspired by whatever sounds I liked.

Chance The Rapper

Best Rapper Sayings #205531
#43. Dogs live longer than rappers.

Nas

Best Rapper Sayings #207764
#44. Depending on the story that you're telling, you can be relatable to everybody or nobody. I try and tell everybody's story.

Chance The Rapper

Best Rapper Sayings #209873
#45. You know the world is messed up when the tallest man in the NBA is Chinese, the best golfer is black, and the best rapper is white.

Chris Rock

Best Rapper Sayings #210359
#46. There has been an effect of business rap on the output of today's rap music. But I don't think that's the modern day rapper's fault.

M.I.A.

Best Rapper Sayings #217200
#47. The roots of rap are originally ghetto-ised or extremely working class. So when you're an artist who's making something which isn't how its mainstream appearance should be, there's always these strange questions of authenticity and what you have to do to be 'real' as a rapper.

Zadie Smith

Best Rapper Sayings #223753
#48. A good rapper is a good rapper, a good album is a good album. I don't think anyone is inherently good.

El-P

Best Rapper Sayings #228506
#49. 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.

KRS-One

Best Rapper Sayings #228711
#50. I constantly think as an artist, as a rapper of what are the stories you want to tell? They can't all be, "I'm ill, I'm fresh, look at me, I have money." At some point, when you have an audience for it, there are stories that need to be told.

Himanshu Suri

Best Rapper Sayings #230085
#51. Drake, I'd like to collaborate with. He's a phenomenal lyricist. Probably the best rapper in the world at the moment. I love Kanye but there's something about Drake; he's more straight up, really clever and really poetic and metaphorical - I love that. He's just clever.

Ellie Goulding

Best Rapper Sayings #238868
#52. Black Mafia. If they don't understand that, they ain't gangsta. I just watched TV and Bill Parcells kissed two or three of them boys ... it's a Mafia thing.

Lil' Wayne

Best Rapper Sayings #240477
#53. 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.

Todd Boyd

Best Rapper Sayings #242414
#54. When I write, I don't really focus on duets or anything like that, or whether I'm going to feature this or that rapper. I just focus on just making a great song and figure out the rest later.

John Legend

Best Rapper Sayings #248567
#55. Faith my homegirl. I just wanna send a shout out to Faith. Hey girl.

Tupac Shakur

Best Rapper Sayings #253216
#56. I smoke blunt to take the pain out and if I wasn't high I'd probably blow my brains out.

Tupac Shakur

Best Rapper Sayings #253328
#57. He was not hip-hop's most gifted emcee. Still, Shakur may be the most influential and compelling rapper of them all, he was more than the sum of his artistic parts.

Michael Eric Dyson

Best Rapper Sayings #256171
#58. I would never design anything. I just think that's kind of wack. I hated every rapper fashion line that ever came out, you know what I'm saying? I would never try.

Danny Brown

Best Rapper Sayings #257996
#59. I was competitive in the ring and hip-hop is competitive too ... I think rappers condition themselves like boxers, so they all kind of feel like they're the champ.

Curtis Jackson

Best Rapper Sayings #258154
#60. Lil Wayne is the best rapper on Earth. Can't nobody touch him. He's the only guy who can put out 300 songs a year and they all fire.

Fat Joe

Best Rapper Sayings #283930
#61. I like all different kinds of music. I never heavily molded myself after rappers. Sometimes they say when you think something and you go to say it, you lose a lot of color about what you're trying to say, so to me the best rappers are the people that don't lose that color.

Drake

Best Rapper Sayings #449041
#62. By the time it came to the 90s, the late 90s, being a businessman was the beacon to uphold. We've been having the concept of the best rapper equals the best businessman ...

M.I.A.

Best Rapper Sayings #514304
#63. No one said, 'This is the best female rapper.' It's more like, 'Lizzo can really rap.' I think its because I'm not that sexy girl. I'm that beast girl.

Lizzo

Best Rapper Sayings #682482
#64. I hate the hype. When 50 Cent came out, people were saying that he was the best rapper alive: "Oh, he got shot nine times, he's better than Tupac, he's better than Biggie." That was all hype.

ASAP Rocky

Best Rapper Sayings #854631
#65. I put everyone in my school on to Nicki Minaj before she blew up. I was obsessed with her and I was like, 'If she's the best female rapper then I've got to be better than her.'

Angel Haze

Best Rapper Sayings #933613
#66. You know the world's gone mad when the best rapper is a white guy, the best golfer is a black guy, the Swiss hold the America's Cup, France is accusing the USA of arrogance and the Germans don't want to go to war !

Chris Rock

Best Rapper Sayings #995963
#67. And still, the best of us build, and reach monetary gains. Some of us kill, but still, most of us can change.

Tupac Shakur

Best Rapper Sayings #1036272
#68. I used to be focused on being the dopest rapper in the game, and then once that became what I was, I wanted something different, and I wanted to become the best businessman in the game. I wanted to learn how to master the business like I mastered the rap.

Snoop Dogg

Best Rapper Sayings #1193992
#69. Being compared to Biggie, that's the best feeling a rapper could have

Black Rob

Best Rapper Sayings #1263658
#70. Suge is the boss of Death Row, the don, you understand? But im the underboss, the capo. That's my job to what's best for Death Row

Tupac Shakur

Best Rapper Sayings #1293339
#71. 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

Best Rapper Sayings #1374051
#72. Throw it up y'all, throw it up, Throw it up, Let's show these fools how we do this on that west side. Cause you and I know it's tha best side.

Tupac Shakur

Best Rapper Sayings #1441641
#73. The best bounce rapper ain't gonna be able to compete with Jay-Z, not on a major scale.

Mystikal

Best Rapper Sayings #1458680
#74. She [Benzino] is obsessed with me. I never would think I would see the day when I seen the worst rapper in the world going against one of the best.

Eminem

Best Rapper Sayings #1496193
#75. There's no New York rapper who's out that is competing with me because first of all, I'm the best.

Fabolous

Best Rapper Sayings #1509166
#76. I would say Lil Wayne [is the best rapper]. He's all about hard work and consistency.

Ludacris

Best Rapper Sayings #1587874
#77. You know it's going to hell when the best rapper out there is white and the best golfer is black.

Charles Barkley

Best Rapper Sayings #1714936
#78. Yo Taylor, I'm really happy for you. I'ma let you finish. But Beyonce had one of the best videos of all time!

Kanye West

Best Rapper Sayings #1776478
#79. I like to quote Shakespeare. But in this case, the rapper Eminem said it best: Words are a motherfucker.

Jillian Keenan

Best Rapper Sayings #1783473
#80. There just needs to be a gay rapper. He doesn't have to be flamboyant, just a rapper who identifies as gay - who's better than everybody. Unfortunately hip-hop is so competitive that in order for fringe groups to get in, you gotta be better than whoever's the best.

Talib Kweli

Best Rapper Sayings #1837114

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