Rapper Quotes - Page 21

• I smoke blunt to take the pain out and if I wasn't high I'd probably blow my brains out.

  Tupac Shakur

  Suicide, Pain, Blow

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• It's all about the work. Nothing is going to fall into your lap. If you want to be a lawyer, see yourself as a lawyer, go to the library and start learning the law. If you want to be a rapper, start rapping and get out there. Live your life as if you already are where you want to be.

  Russell Simmons

  Rap, Fall, Law

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• Oh Lord, help me change my ways, Show a litlle mercy on judgement day, It aint me I was raised this way, Never let em' play me for a busta, Makin' hell for a huslter.

  Tupac Shakur

  Play, Judgement, Ems

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• All good niggers, all the niggers who change the world, die in violence. They don't die in regular ways.

  Tupac Shakur

  World, Way, Violence

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• My first words was thug for life and papa pass the mack

  Tupac Shakur

  Thug, Papa, Firsts

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• What of fame? Everybody knows your name: never again are you alone.

  Tupac Shakur

  Names, Fame, Knows

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• When I die and they come for me bury me a g.

  Tupac Shakur

  Dies

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• I didn't introduce thug life to America. Thug life is America. I don't get why the whole world is fearing me. I am scared, but so are they. It's like I am having a panic attack cause I have 15,000 people wanting to do what I want, listing to everything I say.

  Tupac Shakur

  Thug, America, People

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• I'm 100 percent original, and that's what got me here. My rap music is more understandable, slower. It tells a story. You can write a book on each of my thoughts.

  Tupac Shakur

  Rap, Book, Writing

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• Sometimes I'm very disappointed at some of the people in our family of communicators, whether it be a songwriter or a rapper that's always talking about negativity or a singer or a columnist or a network that basically gets off on just trying to create the negative.

  Stevie Wonder

  Talking, People, Negativity

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• God, When I was alone, and had nothing, I asked for a friend to help me bear the pain, No one came, except God, When I needed a breath to rise, from my sleep, No one could help me.. except God, When all I saw was sadness, and I needed answers, No one heard me, except God, So when I'm asked.. who I give my unconditional love to? I look for no other name, except God

  Tupac Shakur

  Pain, Sadness, Sleep

  Song: God

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• Let me say for the record, I am not a gangster and never have been. I`m not the thief who grabs your purse. I`m not the guy who jacks your car. I`m not down with the people who steal and hurt others. I`m just a brother who fight back.

  Tupac Shakur

  Hurt, Brother, Fighting

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• EVEN THOUGH I'M MARKED FOR DEATH, I'MA SPARK TILL I LOSE MY BREATH

  Tupac Shakur

  Sparks, Breaths, Loses

  Song: Hellrazor

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• One day I'm gonna bust, blow up on this society, why did you lie to me, I couldn't find a trace of humanity.

  Tupac Shakur

  Lying, Blow, Humanity

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• The people made me from the littlest crack head to the biggest baller so if i am bad its because of the bay and if i am good its because of the bay

  Tupac Shakur

  People, Cracks, Made

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• I said it in the beginning. That I was gonna take them niggaz out the game and sure enough I will. Already people can't look at Biggie and not laugh.

  Tupac Shakur

  Games, People, Laughing

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• Everything he wanna have-I got.

  Tupac Shakur

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• I don't bang for the color or the land. I bang for the principles and for the honor. I'm bangin' for the Westside- this is in my heart, this is how I feel.

  Tupac Shakur

  Heart, Color, Land

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• Im probably the only one in the world you can name thats worked with Billie Holiday, Louie Armstrong, Ella, Duke, Miles, Dizzy, Ray Charles, Aretha, Michael Jackson, rappers. Fly Me to the Moon was played on the moon by Buzz Aldrin. Sinatra. Paul Simon. Tony Bennett. Im the only one.

  Quincy Jones

  Holiday, Moon, Names

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• 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

  Guy, Internet, Categories

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• Well, for the transition from rapper to actor, I was fortunate that director John Singleton pursued me for about two years to be in Boyz 'N the Hood. I really wasn't even thinking about acting at the time, since I was singularly focused on being the best rapper in the world. So, that was really a blessing, because I wasn't really taking him seriously.

  Ice Cube

  Blessing, Thinking, Years

  "Ice Cube: The ‘Are We There Yet?’". Interview with Kam Williams, www.eurweb.com. June 2, 2010.

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• If I do become more successful, either as a producer or a rapper, I'm going to do everything I can to help whoever I can on the label.

  Kanye West

  Successful, Labels, Helping

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• They wanna censor me, they ratha see me in a cell, livin' in hell, with only a few of us to live to tell.

  Tupac Shakur

  Cells, Hell

  Song: how do you want it

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• Goin insane, never die, live eternal, who shall I fear?

  Tupac Shakur

  Insane, Dies, Eternal

  Song: If I Die 2Nite

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• As long as I'm not selling out the people that ride or die with me, I'm glad I'm not an MC. I'm a motivational speaker. I'm not that rapper dude.

  Young Jeezy

  Long, People, Selling

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