Rapper Quotes - Page 18

• Everyone wants to label me, but I don't want to be labeled as a rapper or a movie actor.

  Riff Raff

  Labels, Actors, Want

  Interview with Carrie Battan, pitchfork.com. August 2, 2012.

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• 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

  Fashion, Thinking, Design

  Interview with Sowmya Krishnamurthy, www.askmen.com.

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• 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

  Morning, Kids, Voice

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• Rappers are in danger
  Who will use wits to be a remainder?

  O.C.

  Hip Hop, Use, Danger

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• When we say a rapper, a rapper can say a rhyme. But an MC can rock a party.

  Ice T

  Party, Rocks, Rhyme

  Source: www.wbur.org

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• Truthfully, a weak rapper can hide behind a lot of production.

  Ice T

  Weak, Behinds, Productions

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• 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

  Thinking, Guitar, Class

  Source: rocksucker.co.uk

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• Some people actually said I fell off at Nellyville cause I didn't sell as many as Country Grammar. I'm like are you kidding me? Sweat and Suit? I broke history, I was the first rapper to have 1st and 2nd album at the same time ever on billboard.

  Nelly

  Country, Sweat, People

  "Catching Up – Our Nelly Interview". Parlé Magazine Interview, www.parlemag.com. June 22, 2010.

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• I think rappers are the fall guy because some of us don't have the wits to point the finger back. The thing is when you take a whole generation and whip them out, string the mothers out and put the fathers in jail - the reason I know respect is because my father is the mediator between me and my grandfather. I'm the mediator between my son and my father because I'm old enough to understand where my father is coming from and young enough to understand what my kid is trying to do. When you whip out the mediator the kids run wild and the old people are scared of them.

  Nelly

  Mother, Running, Father

  "Catching Up – Our Nelly Interview". Parlé Magazine Interview, www.parlemag.com. June 22, 2010.

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• If someone had said to me ten years ago "Yo, we have this role of this pimp who wants to be a rapper, he lives in Memphis", I'd be like, "Really?" But then when you read it and you see it, you say "That's a great role."

  Morris Chestnut

  Years, Pimp, Roles

  "Morris Chestnut On When the Bough Breaks & Executive Producing". Interview with Screen Rant, screenrant.com. August 12, 2016.

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• 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

  Ideas, Records, Back When

  Interview with Jennifer Cox, www.askmen.com.

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• Everybody in the '80s, well, we hate rap. Now, the biggest rapper in the world... Eminem. Rap's a black thing.

  Chubby Checker

  Hate, Rap, Black

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• Hip-hop is getting to the point now where they are going to start sounding like Al Jarreau or Bobby McFerrin or some of the other poets. Some of the better rappers can rap real fast without even melodies. It'll get to that same point.

  George Clinton

  Real, Rap, Hip Hop

  "The extraterrestrial brother: George Clinton on time, space, and funk". Interview with Andy Seifert, www.avclub.com. February 12, 2010.

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• Soulja Boy is on his dance, down south, young, 18-year-old, comedic swag. It's really just each person's personality; if every rapper had the same swag, it would be kind of boring.

  Soulja Boy

  Boys, Years, Swag

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• I think swag is very important to rappers. It's the overall appearance and style of an artist - these blue shorts and this blue hat and this $80,000 chain, this jewelry and all these tattoos, that's swag.

  Soulja Boy

  Tattoo, Artist, Thinking

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• Rap is hardcore street music but there are women out there who can hang with the best male rappers. What holds us back is that girls tend to rap in these high, squeaky voices. It's irritating. You've gotta rap from the diaphragm.

  Cheryl James

  Girl, Rap, Voice

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• You should be able to drink a clean cup of water and you should be able to write your own name. That's the kind of stuff that holds dear to me, not I'm the best rapper. That doesn't matter to me. At that point it's all ego to me and I don't want to be driven by that and I try my best not to.

  Asher Roth

  Writing, Names, Water

  Source: www.parlemag.com

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• I'm a rapper but I'm a human being.

  Phife Dawg

  Humans, Human Beings

  Source: www.gq.com

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• 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

  Want, Gucci, Downing

  Source: www.complex.com

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• 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

  Gay, Needs, Able

  "Talib Kweli Stands His Ground". Interview with AJ Vicens, www.motherjones.com. August 26, 2013.

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• I was never actually signed to the label; I was just the annoying rapper that was always around at the studio sessions.

  JD Era

  Labels, Annoying, Session

  Source: www.hiphopcanada.com

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• I hate doing features because rappers take forever to get you their verses.

  JD Era

  Hate, Forever, Verses

  Source: www.hiphopcanada.com

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• It's probably easier for rappers as far as a respect level. 'Cause with singers, the powers that be tend to feel that we're stupid.

  Ginuwine

  Stupid, Levels, Singers

  Source: www.parlemag.com

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• Unfortunately hip-hop is so competitive that in order for fringe groups to get in, you gotta be better than whoever's the best. So before Eminem, the idea that there would be a white rapper that anybody would really check for was fantastic or amazing or impossible.

  Talib Kweli

  Order, Ideas, White

  "Talib Kweli Stands His Ground". Interview with AJ Vicens, www.motherjones.com. August 26, 2013.

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• I've been around a lot longer than most rappers stay around. So I don't feel like, I haven't made too many career mistakes.

  Ice Cube

  Mistake, Careers, Made

  "Ice Cube Says Hollywood Isn't Cool Enough, Adds: "I'm Ready to Run a Studio"". Interview with Stephen Galloway, www.hollywoodreporter.com. February 25, 2016.

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