Rapper Quotes - Page 17

• Every time a new rock singer comes out they don't say, 'Are you the new John Lennon?' Every time a new rapper comes out, it's not, 'Are you the new Dre?' I am never sure why this sort of genre, the categorization is so strong. I have not earned the right to be called the young Sinatra, but give me time.

  Michael Buble

  Strong, Rocks, Giving

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• 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

  Real, Mean, People

  Source: www.coupdemainmagazine.com

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• 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

  School, Thinking, Drug

  Source: therumpus.net

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• Dealing with the old school rappers, you see a lot of humility. When you're new, nothing is wrong. Everything is tight. Because you're trying to hype the world into believing in you.

  Ice T

  Believe, School, Humility

  "Interview: Ice-T likes lemonade, loves Coco". Interview With Luis Gomez, articles.chicagotribune.com. June 14, 2012.

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• We should remember what a rapper like Tupac Shakur was doing, to a certain degree, who came from an experience of politicization very close to being a "Panther Baby". He knew, he came from that experience of the Black Panthers, and accounting for all his contradictions and process of growth, he achieved politically through gangsta rap things that no conscious rapper has achieved, such as establishing political, ethical, and moral codes between Crips and Bloods in the United States.

  Bocafloja

  Baby, Rap, Gangsta

  Source: www.counterpunch.org

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• I think thats what most of us rappers do too often. We put too much information in some of our albums that could actually be on the next ones.

  Schoolboy Q

  Thinking, Albums, Too Much Information

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• The government hates rap. That's why they don't arrest anybody that kills rappers! Only the good ones are dead, man! Only the good ones: Biggie dead, Tupac dead, Vanilla Ice still alive! They don't fill out a police report. They don't even have a chalk line when it's a dead rapper, they just take a piss around the body.

  Chris Rock

  Funny, Hate, Rap

  "Chris Rock: Never Scared". TV Special, April 17, 2004.

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• I think it's such open game to make fun of myself. First of all, as a white rapper you have to have an angle and not try to be ghetto or anything. You can count on one hand the white rappers that have made it.

  Simon Rex

  Fun, Ghetto, Thinking

  Source: www.mediaite.com

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• 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

  Skills, Dancing, Dancer

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• I always knew I could rap, and in a sense I always rapped. And I've always behaved like a rapper. But I started to take it seriously when I recorded with the people of Brick when I started to receive some money.

  Young Thug

  Rap, People, Bricks

  "We Translated Young Thug’s French Interview So You Don’t Have To". Interview with Carl Lamarre, theurbandaily.cassiuslife.com. September 8, 2015.

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• Not only the brothers on the street but the middle class brothers are also identifying with the gangster rappers because of the extent to which this music circulates. It becomes possible for the - not only the young middle class men, but it becomes possible for young middle class white men and young men of other racial communities to identify with the misogyny of gangster rap.

  Angela Davis

  Brother, Rap, Men

  Frontline Interview, www.pbs.org. 1997.

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• You can have a phenomenal booth artist and he can get in there and be a technician in the booth and it won't translate on the stage. I think that's what makes emcees emcees. Some rapper dudes are great rappers but it don't translate on stage.

  Joell Ortiz

  Artist, Thinking, Emcee

  Source: thecomeupshow.com

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• I believe that being a successful rapper is probably attainable.

  Jon Connor

  Believe, Successful, I Believe

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• What's bad for the culture is wack rappers that get held in high regard like they're some great thing because it's the flavor of the month, but everybody knows they can't rap. I don't think it's hard, even for somebody who's not hip-hop, to know that that's not good. When you put them up against somebody that can really rhyme, you go, "Okay, I get it. This is what it should sound like."

  Ice T

  Rap, Thinking, Flavor Of The Month

  Source: collider.com

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• 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

  Thinking, Artist, Stories

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• 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

  Real, Thinking, Games

  Source: www.mtv.co.uk

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• I was so obsessed with 2Pac. He was one of the first rappers I heard. "Dear Mama" was one of the first tracks I ever memorized.

  Shwayze

  Track, Firsts, Mama

  Source: upc.fm

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• There's a lot of real unity - and a lot fake unity, sadly. I think a lot of people are going to get an opportunity to pursue greatness and pursue careers outside of D.C. Not everybody is going to make it. I think there's a connotation that there's a lack of rappers out there.

  Wale

  Real, Opportunity, Greatness

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• Being a black rapper is like being a Southern, socialite woman: You're always worried about appearances.

  Killer Mike

  Southern, Black, Appearance

  Source: pitchfork.com

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• 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

  Men, Nba, White

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

  Bobby Moynihan

  Drunk, Citizens

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• When will rappers & skanks realize God's not the only one who gets to judge them on their actions? We do too. It's called CONSEQUENCES.

  Nils Parker

  Judging, Skanks, Action

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• I honestly never sat down and said "OK, here's my style," because my whole thing was knowing everyone's style. Everything I've ever written has bits and pieces of everything I've ever heard. Any rapper that tells you different is a liar.

  Bun B

  Liars, Knowing, Style

  Interview with Jon Caramanica, believermag.com. June 1, 2006.

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• 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

  Men, Years, Style

  Source: www.gq.com

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• I'm the main rapper of B2ST, Yang Yoseob!

  Yoseob

  Yang

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