Top 100 Rapper Quotes
#1. Rather than trying to put an end to Eminem or some other rapper, politicians should think about why they're rapping. It's easier to try to censor some kid who's swearing about poverty than it is to stop the poverty.
Willie Nelson
#2. 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
#3. I think that's what makes a good rapper. Somebody who wants to push themselves and their audience further.
Donald Glover
#4. I'm a prince for real, I don't look at myself as a rapper, as a gangster, none of that.
Cyhi The Prynce
#5. I think it would be different to work with a guy like Kanye West or Jay-Z, those guys are so phenomenal, but just to work with a rapper, I don't think is really my thing. I really like songs, like true songs. Like indie songs.
Tiesto
#6. Once I slapped a rapper with mace,
Then I spit acid in his face, after he rinsed his eyes, no wait ...
I actually grew five times my size, grabbed Ma$e by the thigh and slapped a rapper with him.
Pharoahe Monch
#7. In kindergarten I had to draw a picture of what I wanted to be when I grew up. I drew a rapper. I didn't really know what a rapper was or what they did - I just wanted to do it.
B.o.B
#8. If you're really a rapper, you can't stop rapping.
Ice-T
#9. If kids say I'm just a gospel rapper, I won't be able to get in their cars.
MC Hammer
#10. If I were born in other generation, I would be a singer rapper, dancing is also ... I was famous as a good dancer. My dancing skill was just hided by other members better skill.
Yesung
#11. I love rap, and I try to write a bit like a rapper, to have a flow.
Jess Glynne
#12. 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
#13. 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.
Michael Rapaport
#14. So sometimes if I'm working with a rapper, like Ghostface Killah or Nas, producing usually means, in hip-hop, that you make the music. You make the beat, and you give it to them. And they write the rhymes.
Mark Ronson
#15. Scared of a bunch of water? Then get out the rain.
Order a rapper for lunch, and spit out the chain.
Daniel Dumile
#16. 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.
Danny Brown
#18. LL Cool J was a rapper-turned-actor, and I also relate to him because he was sort of a ladies' man and had a female fan base, but yet he's a positive dude. You never read about him getting into trouble or going to jail.
Bow Wow
#19. I ain't a rapper; I'm a motivational speaker. I don't do shows; I do seminars. I really talk to people.
Young Jeezy
#20. Everyone wants to label me, but I don't want to be labeled as a rapper or a movie actor.
Riff Raff
#21. I'm not just a rapper. I'm an entertainer. That's the difference.
LL Cool J
#22. Well, you know what? If that guy can do it, I can be myself too, and if that rapper can be himself and be free and be happy and still hold masculinity and love people and love flowers and just be happy being alive, well then, I can do that too.
Lil B
#23. Usually I start with a beat, I start making a beat, and my producer side is making the beat. And on a good day, my rapper side will jump in and start the writing process - maybe come up with a hook or start a verse. Sometimes it just happens like that. A song like 'Lights Please' happens like that.
J. Cole
#24. I never understood the idea that I was a 'backpack rapper.' I think that's a lazy way that people started thinking. They like saying that because I got dreads. I look like I belong a certain place, so it's easy to put everything in a box.
Wale
#25. I'm pretty sure people thought I was like a dope rapper.
Big Pun
#26. It was just cool to see my friends so inspired, and I'm by no means the biggest rapper in the world, but I'm on my way up. I feel like I'm going to keep going and delivering good music every time. It was cool to show people that it's real to do what you want to do.
Big Sean
#27. I believe that being a successful rapper is probably attainable.
Jon Connor
#28. When I was at Upright Citizens Brigade, I would pretend to be a sad, drunk rapper.
Bobby Moynihan
#29. I'm a comedian, and I decided I wanted to be a comedian when I was eight years old watching old Saturday Night Live episodes. I never decided to be a rapper because I'm not a rapper.
Andy Samberg
#30. 99% of my life I was lied to. I just found out my mom does more dope than I do(Damn!). I told her I'd grow up to be a famous rapper, make a record about doing drugs and name it after her (-Oh, thank you!).
Eminem
#31. I'm mostly concentrating now on continuing to make history in Hip-Hop, making everybody proud of me, I'm not just a rapper now, I'm in history now.
Big Pun
#32. I've got a million people telling me why I can't do it. You know, that I'm not a real designer, that I'm not this. I'm not a real rapper, either!
Kanye West
#33. I'm a minimalist in a rapper's body.
Kanye West
#34. Amber London is a political rapper, a preaching rapper who speaks true facts and not just nonsense.
SpaceGhostPurrp
#35. I don't really like to write anywhere but my own apartment. I send a lot of text messages to myself as email when I'm not at home. My texts are usually like, "If I ever break up with my boyfriend I want to date a very angry rapper."
Chelsea Martin
#36. There's two elements to rap: having the thoughts, and then being a great rapper.
Drake
#37. I'm not more or less conscious than any other rapper out there.
Macklemore
#38. I want people to follow their dreams, yes ... but I'm not interested in telling young black kids how to be rappers ... I want to show them that there's so many other paths you can take, besides a rapper or basketball player.
J. Cole
#39. 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
#40. 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
#41. I'm a rapper trying to be an actor.
Method Man
#42. I am a singer, not a full-on rapper.
Cher Lloyd
#43. People in the record business would say, Well, Pras, you know, you haven't been out in a while, maybe you should get today's hottest producer or rapper to do something.
Pras Michel
#44. Some of these guys ... I've worked with Ice Cube, I think he's an immensely talented rapper and actor.
Anthony Anderson
#45. When Elton John sang a duet with the white rapper Eminem on a Grammy telecast, rap went mainstream. Massive parental headaches followed.
Bill O'Reilly
#46. Just because a rapper is white, I don't feel the need to attack them.
Yelawolf
#47. I think I'm a whole lot to handle. I definitely am, on every aspect. I'm the video director. I'm the graphics designer. I'm the rapper. I'm the visionary. I'm the music producer. I'm the executive producer. I'm just going to end it off to be poetic: I'm the future of music.
Kanye West
#48. Being a rapper is about being cool, but being a comedian, you're not supposed to be the coolest guy.
Aziz Ansari
#49. Being compared to Biggie, that's the best feeling a rapper could have
Black Rob
#50. I would collaborate with James Franco as a rapper any day.
Gucci Mane
#51. As a rapper, your verses are like a window in to who you are.
Andre Benjamin
#52. I'm a ghetto man who made good. I never forgot where I came from and who put me on top - God and Jack The Rapper.
James Brown
#53. My kid was a great baseball player. I thought I had it made. Front-row seats at Yankee Stadium. Then he turned sixteen and wanted to be a rapper.
James Caan
#54. As a kid, I liked to write, but I didn't think that was a viable career choice. My dream, actually, was to be a white girl rapper and join Salt-N-Pepa - which obviously was a much more viable career choice.
Karen Abbott
#55. Lets be clear, Dolly Parton is a rapper. Somewhere before all the country, I don't know what happens up there in the mountains when you're growing up, but she has been spitting rhymes for a very long time - 50 years I'd say.
Queen Latifah
#56. I'm a producer/rapper, so I feel like I can do anything. I can do all kinds of music. I've done all kinds of music, and I'm good at it.
Juicy J
#57. Can't a rapper insist, like other artists, on a fictional reality, in which he is somehow still on the corner, despite occupying the penthouse suite?
Zadie Smith
#58. I'm not a conscious rapper, all those things we talk about, the struggle, the pain, the outlook to the future, keep your head up. I try to put all those positive things into a regular human character, which is myself.
J. Cole
#59. Gucci is a rapper that doesn't try and be anything he's not - he's straight up. Yeah, maybe it's ironic and all, but I'm just a fan and have been one since day one. Gucci Mane is the cool uncle I never had, even though I'm sure I'm probably older than him.
Diplo
#60. John would have been the first white rapper. And also he would have cherished the Internet.
Yoko Ono
#61. I used to record but just in my own studio or in my friend's back when I toyed with the idea of being a rapper.
Don Cheadle
#62. Bury me smilin' with G's in my pocket, Have a party at my funeral let every rapper rock it Let the hoes that I used to know, from way before Kiss me from my head to my toe, Gimme a paper and pen so I can write about my life of sin, Couple bottles of gin, in case I don't get in ...
Tupac Shakur
#63. I was like 14 and decided I wanted to be a rapper, so I needed a hip rapper name. I was with one of my friends in class and literally went through a thesaurus. I saw "temper" and thought, "I like this, but it's too much." My friend was like, "What about Tinie for tiny," and that was that.
Tinie Tempah
#64. I'm not a gangsta rapper. I rap about things that happen to me. I got shot five times. People was trying to kill me.
Tupac Shakur
#65. I'm not going to be like a rapper and mention the people I'm talking about in my songs by name.
Austin Carlile
#66. I'm glad I'm a woman; I'm glad I'm a rapper because I get to speak to these people who did not get spoken for in this genre.
Lizzo
#67. 'Rapper's Delight' was done in 17 minutes. Just one take, no mistakes, and it went to press from there. The record went platinum in 8 days.
Big Bank Hank
#68. I rarely get mentioned in the same category as these other guys who have come out after me ... [b]ut maybe I'm not that, maybe I'm not an Internet rapper.
Danny Denzongpa
#69. I'm a real gangster rapper and I'm a rapper. I just think my music takes different directions. I don't think you can pigeon hole me in one genre. I'm probably the most versatile in the game, period.
Freddie Gibbs
#70. I want to marry his smile, and if his smile is already married to someone else, then I want to marry his eyebrows and eyes. They're remarkable. Nobody's ever made better use of his or her eyes or eyebrows as a rapper than Kurtis Blow.
Shea Serrano
#71. I don't consider myself a gangsta rapper. But I'm probably more qualified to be a gangsta rapper than people who call themselves that. I've been through that life.
Coolio
#72. I've been writing since I was 10 or 11. I started with poetry because that was the easiest thing. It just kind of came naturally. I think at that time West Coast hip hop was huge; all these kids around me were like, 'I want to be a rapper.' But I'm a white girl, not going to be a rapper.
Sasha Grey
#73. Until now, I've not done a project where the produce, rapper and singer has never worked together like this before, and I had a chance to try a variety of styles.
Namie Amuro
#74. When we say a rapper, a rapper can say a rhyme. But an MC can rock a party.
Ice-T
#75. 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."
Spencer Pratt
#76. I don't mind being called a weirdo. There are a lot of people in hip-hop who are probably never going to get what I do. But, by just being myself, I end up touching a lot more people who might never have paid much attention to a female rapper.
Nicki Minaj
#77. You know it's going to hell when the best rapper out there is white and the best golfer is black.
Charles Barkley
#78. No city owns me, you know what I'm saying? I'm from New York, but no city owns me. Nobody can bottle up my sound and box me in. Yes, I am a rapper, but am I a New York rapper? No. I am from New York, I love New York to death, but I will not conform myself to one place, no.
ASAP Ferg
#79. In spouse, I mostly hear "S.mouse," the name of Chris Lilley's blackface teenage rapper in Angry Boys. And
Augusten Burroughs
#80. With 'Hip-Hop Saved My Life,' I attempted to make 'Kick, Push,' but for rappers. To give a real basic play-by-play of the life of a rapper before he makes it - if he ever makes it, because you can get stuck in that and be trying to make it for the rest of your life.
Lupe Fiasco
#81. I always want to execute and maximize off of potential, and this is a natural progression. Coming up as a youngster, I always wanted to be a rapper, but I knew that if I did everything right as a rapper, I'd end up as an actor, following the models of Ice Cube, Tupac [Shakur] and Will Smith.
T.I.
#82. 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
#83. I passed a large dark room where a wall-mounted flat-screen with sound muted showed an overweight rapper performing rap hand gestures, which are supposed to project masculine cool but in fact look like a pointlessly violent version of deaf sign language.
Glen Duncan
#84. You take the quote from Sam Jackson about how he'll never work with a rapper, and I can understand where he's coming from because he says rappers can't act.
Anthony Anderson
#85. This one Corbusier lamp was like, my greatest inspiration ... I'm a minimalist in a rapper's body.
Kanye West
#86. On 'Old School,' I was not an actor, I was Snoop Dogg, so I came to the set with a whole different vibe, and a different crew of people. And on 'Starsky and Hutch,' I was more of an actor. I wasn't Snoop Dogg, the rapper.
Snoop Dogg
#87. I speak from the heart. Certain people follow lyricists and people that put words on a dictionary together, and this and that. I'm more of a rapper that speaks how I feel. I just tell it how it is.
French Montana
#88. I try to get the hip-hop aesthetic, most times without an MC. I don't use a rapper or a DJ to give it the hip-hop style; it's strictly the band that makes that music, which is a lot harder to do.
Robert Glasper
#89. In the past it seemed like I was making fun of rap a little bit. But it was more me making fun of myself, since I'm not technically a rapper, whatever that means.
Beck
#90. I would love to have a rapper on one of my songs, like Ludacris, or the 'it's so hot in here' guy, Nelly.
LaToya Jackson
#91. Just because someone has great content doesn't mean you like them as a rapper.
Talib Kweli
#92. Jay-Z's my favorite rapper, but why can't I aspire to be better than him?
Wale
#93. Nobody in the world could have told me I wasn't gonna be a rapper. So, yeah, I always knew I was gonna be one.
Lil' Wayne
#94. 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
#95. I was only 11 when we filmed the pilot. The idea of a rapper being a star on a sitcom just wasn't heard of.
Tatyana Ali
#96. I like to quote Shakespeare. But in this case, the rapper Eminem said it best: Words are a motherfucker.
Jillian Keenan
#97. I'm a big-time Fabolous fan. He's my favorite rapper ever. I hope to meet him one day.
Rahim Moore
#99. I don't recall being excited about a new rapper, ever.
DMX
#100. Rapper, just puts so much connotation on who you are and what is exposed. Even if a lot of it is out-dated, people still bring a lot to it.
Donald Glover
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