Top 100 Rapper Quotes
#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
#2. I guess I am a rapper. It's weird to be called that, or tell someone that's your profession.
Action Bronson
#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
#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
#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
#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
#7. Burnin' churches, fearin' God, Who can be so cruel, We all ignorant to AIDS, Till it happens to you.
Tupac Shakur
#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
#9. Laugh with fake id's but i have permanent license of pain in eyes
Kjiva
#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
#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
#12. I make soul music for hip-hop heads. It's music I'd want to sample if I were a rapper.
Mayer Hawthorne
#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
#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
#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
#17. No rapper in the world from Jay-Z to Tupac to Biggie has 100 percent love on everything they do.
J. Cole
#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
#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
#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
#21. My favorite rappers are Lil Wayne. I like Wayne.
Future
#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
#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
#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
#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
#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
#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
#28. Even as a little seed, I could see his plan for me. Stranded on welfare, another broken family.
Tupac Shakur
#29. How can there not already be a rapper named 'O'pinion'?
Dov Davidoff
#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
#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
#32. As a kid, I loved storytelling, and I liked the way rappers would paint pictures.
Jensen Karp
#33. I was trying to be the best rapper in the world. I wasn't thinking about acting.
Ice Cube
#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
#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
#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
#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
#38. I really love when people come up to me on the street and say, 'You're my favorite rapper.'
Ludacris
#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
#40. You know who was on time tonight, which surprised me? Ghostface. Ghostface was early and making calls - what rapper does that?
Donald Glover
#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
#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
#43. Dogs live longer than rappers.
Nas
#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
#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
#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.
#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
#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
#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
#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
#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
#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
#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
#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
#55. Faith my homegirl. I just wanna send a shout out to Faith. Hey girl.
Tupac Shakur
#56. I smoke blunt to take the pain out and if I wasn't high I'd probably blow my brains out.
Tupac Shakur
#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
#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
#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
#60. Jason Aldean is actually probably a really good rapper. He sounds like it to me.
Blake Shelton
#61. 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!
KRS-One
#62. Sometimes I'm very disappointed at some of the people in our family of communicators, whether it be a songwriter or a rapper that's always talking about negativity or a singer or a columnist or a network that basically gets off on just trying to create the negative.
Stevie Wonder
#64. I would never challenge any rapper to a rap-off. It's weird, I'm not that type of rapper.
Donald Glover
#65. 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.
Nicki Minaj
#67. 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
#68. 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
#69. I started off as a rapper from Thunder Bay, Ontario, believe it or not. There was a little group of 10 or 12 of us that would get together and copy each other's cassettes. So I was a rapper first, and it was that music that got me into this great entertainment world and got me out of Thunder Bay.
Kevin Durand
#70. We give violent movies a pass but come down hard on a rapper like Scarface, who is ultimately a storyteller just like Brian de Palma. And neither of them is responsible for the poverty and violence that really do shape people's lives
not to mention their individual choices.
Jay-Z
#71. If I don't win, the award show loses credibility.
Kanye West
#72. I feel close to Marvin Gaye, Vincent van Gogh, because nobody appreciated his work until he was dead. Now it's worth millions.
Tupac Shakur
#73. It's hard being a white rapper sometimes! When that happens you just need to battle through.
Yelawolf
#74. Well, the first two days in prison, I had to go through what life is like when you've been smoking weed for as long as I have and then you stop. Emotionally, it was like I didn't know myself.
Tupac Shakur
#75. White man makes guns? No problem. Black rapper says "gun"? Congressional hearing.
Chris Rock
#76. There's a lot of good rappers in England at the moment. There's a lot of good dance acts. A lot of good, young guitar acts. I think a lot of groups came from that dole culture of the late 80's/early 90's - it's not as easy now. I think there's a dearth of working class bands.
Ian Brown
#77. You can be a rapper born and raised in go-go music, violence, drugs, crack, Reagonomics, and still, if you hear 'Wake Me Up Before You Go-Go,' you're going to find a way to hum along. Guilty pleasures? It don't matter. Sue me - I like the song. To dance to it is another matter.
Wale
#78. I'm an entertainer, so in whatever form I entertain ... The thing about being a rapper is that you have more control over your form, whereas with acting you have to compromise a lot.
Method Man
#79. You can't run game on a rapper. I'm always 10 steps ahead of you.
Nicki Minaj
#80. 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.
Tupac Shakur
#81. I'm not really interested in anybody, that's why I started rapping. I'm still a fan of Tupac. That's the only rapper that I'm still like, "Oh! Tupac!"
Spencer Pratt
#82. Like my good friend Eminem the rapper says, you only get one shot.
Shaquille O'Neal
#83. The idea of 'talking white,' a lot of people grew up around that, just the idea that if you speak with proper diction and come off as educated that it's not black and that it's actually anti-black and should be considered only something that white people would do.
Chance The Rapper
#84. 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
#85. Ghost tells me every few years, Yo, you showed me this style ... I'm like, man, we the same style. At the end of the day, he's one of my favorite rappers, I'm one of his favorite rappers, and we just do it.
Raekwon
#87. Rappers kinda look stupid sometimes. Most of the time. I'm pretty sure I look stupid too a lot.
Vince Staples
#88. New York was at the forefront of rap, so because of all the great people who have gone before me, being a rapper from Queens, I have to live up to those standards. I'm basically just a regular guy who says what he feels and likes to joke. I like long walks on the beach ... and I love rap.
Action Bronson
#89. Your reign on the top was short like leprechauns,
As I crush so-called Willies, thugs, and rapper-dons.
The Notorious B.I.G.
#90. This fast life soon shatters, cause after all the lights and screams, nothing but my dreams matter.
Tupac Shakur
#91. Hip Hop was supposed to be this new thing that had no boundaries and was so different to everyday music. As long as it has soul to it, hip hop can live on.
Tupac Shakur
#92. I never was the battle rapper. That was never my thing. I always felt like it's enough room for everybody to do their thing. I like bringing new energy, re-inventing the wheel, so to speak, every time I come out.
Nelly
#94. There is only a relationship between music and sports because all athletes want to be rappers and all rappers want to be athletes.
Dwyane Wade
#95. When I slid into comedy, naturally the first thing I said was, "hello, I am a washed up rapper."
Doc Brown
#96. I am the beast, Feed me rappers or feed me beats
Lil' Wayne
#97. June 16, 1971, mama gave birth to a Hell rasing heavenly son.
Tupac Shakur
#98. Almost every rapper has a track that talks about their dreams.
Boi-1da
#99. 50 is Eminem's favourite rapper ... I'm my favourite rapper.
Kanye West
#100. When I grew up I saw females doing certain things, and I thought I had to do that exactly. The female rappers of my day spoke about sex a lot ... and I thought that to have the success they got, I would have to represent the same thing. When in fact I didn't have to represent the same thing.
Nicki Minaj
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