Real Rapper Quotes

#1. 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

#2. 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

#3. I would not consider myself to be a quote unquote real New York rapper. I don't even like New York rappers.

ASAP Rocky

#4. I'm gonna be real - there's no female rappers in the game.

SpaceGhostPurrp

#5. I'm a prince for real, I don't look at myself as a rapper, as a gangster, none of that.

Cyhi The Prynce

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

Ellen DeGeneres

#7. 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

#8. To me, the Seventies were very inspirational and very influential ... With my whole persona as Snoop Dogg, as a person, as a rapper. I just love the Seventies style, the way all the players dressed nice, you know, kept their hair looking good, drove sharp cars and they talked real slick.

Snoop Dogg

#9. You know he can't save you, right? In the real world, that guy right there ... he can't save you.

Lil' Wayne

#10. I was never just a 'fill in 16 bars on a beat' rapper. I was making real songs from the jump.

Mac Miller

#11. 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

#12. 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