Rapper Quotes - Page 19

• I was trying to be the best rapper in the world. I wasn't thinking about acting.

  Ice Cube

  Thinking, Trying, Acting

  "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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• 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

  Writing, Fake, Singers

  Source: pitchfork.com

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• People didn't really take white rappers seriously until Eminem, because he was better than everybody. Like female emcees, you need to be like Lauryn Hill or Nicki Minaj or killing everything before somebody takes you seriously.

  Talib Kweli

  White, People, Emcee

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

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• I like getting my own thoughts out right now, I have fans to solidify, so that's why I don't do tracks with too many younger rappers or newer artists. People may consider me to be a music snob or whatever, but I like to preserve what's mine and I also don't just do tracks to do tracks, I make every song with a purpose.

  Drake

  Song, Artist, People

  "Drake Talks Young Money, Kanye Comparisons & Ghostwriting". Interview with Damien Scott, www.complex.com. May 30, 2009.

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• People really don't know the extent of what I actually do. I'm not one of those rappers... "Hey! Make a hit. Throw it on an album! Sit at home and make more music." I put 4 or 5 mixtapes out and do shows all year long.

  Gorilla Zoe

  Home, Years, Long

  Source: uproxx.com

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• I like all different kinds of music. I never heavily molded myself after rappers. Sometimes they say when you think something and you go to say it, you lose a lot of color about what you're trying to say, so to me the best rappers are the people that don't lose that color.

  Drake

  Thinking, Color, People

  "Drake Talks Young Money, Kanye Comparisons & Ghostwriting". Interview with Damien Scott, www.complex.com. May 30, 2009.

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• KRS-One is one of my favorite rappers ever. I actually don't even know why I have this on my computer, but I do. I really like this album, Criminal Minded.

  Girl Talk

  Criminals, Albums, Computer

  "Random Rules: Gregg Gillis of Girl Talk". Interview with Josh Modell, www.avclub.com. March 12, 2007.

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• I change my direction, I can't even help it. It's sort of like the fortune and misfortune of being a rapper.

  Doseone

  Helping, Fortune, I Can

  "Doseone" by Chris Dahlen, pitchfork.com. March 6, 2005.

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• When I started Fool's Gold and producing consistent records that were like electro beats with rapping on it that was experimental and weird. I made a mixtape called Dirty South Dance where I put rap vocals over dance music. That was literally an experiment. Now all these rappers are rapping on dance music. This is something I've been trying to build for a while.

  A-Trak

  Rap, Dirty, Trying

  Source: www.gq.com

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• When I fell in love with hip-hop, my favorite rapper was Jay-Z. But I used to like Common and Nas. But I was a South dude. So I grew up on UGK, Triple Six, Outkast, and Pastor Troy. That's where I get my lingo, my slang, my passion.

  Cyhi the Prynce

  Passion, Hip Hop, Six

  Source: www.complex.com

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

  Cyhi the Prynce

  Real, Looks, Gangsters

  Source: www.complex.com

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• You can say what you want to about a rapper in a movie, but look at what Ice Cube has done. Ice Cube has created more opportunities for other actors to get jobs in this business than some actors have.

  Anthony Anderson

  Jobs, Opportunity, Ice

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• 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

  Acting, Transition, Video

  "Queen Latifah 'Joyful Noise' Interview". Interview with Kam Williams, newsblaze.com. January 1, 2012.

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• I looked at the rap community like street kids wanting their own brand. But now I look at that period with the rappers in the 90s as a trend of the moment. What it taught me was never to follow a trend, because trends move on.

  Tommy Hilfiger

  Rap, Moving, Kids

  "The Saturday interview: Tommy Hilfiger". Interview with Hadley Freeman, www.theguardian.com. February 4, 2011.

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• 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

  Rap, Eye, Hip Hop

  Song: Rapid Eye Movement, 2014

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• 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

  Clever, World, Poetic

  "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• I try to really capitalize off of what other rappers really can't do. There are opportunities that rappers I love simply can't get, because... you know... I don't have the tattoos; I have a different image.

  Drake

  Tattoo, Opportunity, Trying

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• Rappers aren't the really rich ones. We all have nice houses with studios and cars, but you need a piece of someone's business to be super wealthy.

  Drake

  Nice, Car, House

  "How to Drake It in America" by Michael Paterniti, www.gq.com. June 18, 2013.

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• Scared of a bunch of water? Then get out the rain.
  Order a rapper for lunch, and spit out the chain.

  Daniel Dumile

  Rain, Rap, Order

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• 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

  Rap, Dope, Games

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• ..And the same rapper who revels in a woman's finely proportioned behind may also speak against racism and on behalf of the poor, even as he encourages them not to look at hip-hop as their salvation.

  Michael Eric Dyson

  Racism, Hip Hop, Looks

  Michael Eric Dyson (2008). “Is Bill Cosby Right?: Or Has the Black Middle Class Lost Its Mind?.”, p.32, Basic Civitas Books

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• Everybody in hip-hop discriminates against gay people. Matter of fact, the exact opposite word of 'hip-hop,' I think, is 'gay.' Like yo, you play a record and if it's wack, 'That's gay, dog!' And I wanna just come on TV and just tell my rappers, just tell my friends, 'Yo, stop it, fam.'

  Kanye West

  Dog, Gay, Thinking

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• I get attention like a Lexus, girls wanna sex this
  Play rappers like Tetris...eat em like breakfast.

  Lord Finesse

  Girl, Sex, Rap

  Song: Flip Da Style, Album: The Awakening, 1996

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• Only God can judge me.

  Tupac Shakur

  Judging, Only God Can Judge Me, Spiritual Healing

  Song: Only God Can Judge Me, Album: All Eyez on Me, 1996

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• I don't feel that rap has been respected as an art form. Because people have seen rappers rap off the top of their heads, they don't think it is difficult.

  Ice T

  Art, Rap, Thinking

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