Rapper Quotes - Page 22

• When you're rapping, you do have to perform to a certain degree, but not every rapper is necessarily a gifted actor.

  Queen Latifah

  Rap, Degrees, Actors

  Interview with Nathan Rabin, www.avclub.com. October 30, 2002.

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• I love when rappers have a off-beat, very abstract timing, and he certainly did.And any rapper who really approaches rapping with the art form of songwriting melodically - I know a bunch of rappers who actually go in before they write the lyrics and come up with the melody. And you can hear and feel that difference so much when that's the case.

  Solange Knowles

  Art, Rap, Writing

  Source: www.npr.org

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• I heard a rumor I died, Murdered in cold blood dramatized, Pictures of me in my final state, You know mama cried, But that was fiction, Some coward got the story twisted, Like I no longer existed, Mysteriously missin', I'm known worldwide baby, I ain't hard to find.

  Tupac Shakur

  Baby, Blood, Coward

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• And every breath I breathe untill the moment I'm deceased. Will be another moment ballin' as a 'G'.

  Tupac Shakur

  Moments, Breathe, Deceased

  Song: Heartz of Men

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• Our unborn never got to grow, never got to see what's, next, In this world full of countless threats.

  Tupac Shakur

  World, Next, Threat

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• I guarantee if people keep mm..supportin' me....Just buying my records, goin to my concerts, just supporting me..I'ma keep givin' money....Like Makaveli, every time it go platinum, I'm putting money up for community centers.

  Tupac Shakur

  People, Community, Guarantees

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• I don't even think I'm that good at rapping, but I think what makes a great rapper - what CAN make a great rapper - is someone who wants to be better.

  Donald Glover

  Rap, Thinking, Want

  "Donald Glover a.k.a. Childish Gambino backstage at Big Day Out '13". Interview with Shahlin Graves, www.coupdemainmagazine.com. March 21, 2013.

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• There are some rappers out there that I listen to, that I'm like: "You are really good but you could be like the Michael Jordan of rap if you applied yourself." There's a lot of people who are better at basketball than Michael Jordan, but Michael Jordan just wanted to be Michael Jordan, more.

  Donald Glover

  Basketball, Rap, People

  "Donald Glover a.k.a. Childish Gambino backstage at Big Day Out '13". Interview with Shahlin Graves, www.coupdemainmagazine.com. March 21, 2013.

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• We have to remember examples of many artists of conscious rap who have been coopted by the Department of State of the United States to be cultural ambassadors in different parts of the world, like Syria, like other parts of the Middle East, including conscious Islamic-American rappers that are representing an international political agenda for the United States through cultures more affable for people of color in other parts of the world.

  Bocafloja

  Rap, Islamic, Artist

  "Decolonial Rap". Interview with Andrew Smolski, www.counterpunch.org. May 15, 2015.

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• I didn't get that power from gunz..coz there's no gunz in jail..I got that power from books and from thinking and strategizing...... That's what I want little niggaz to see.

  Tupac Shakur

  Book, Thinking, Jail

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• I would never challenge any rapper to a rap-off. It's weird, I'm not that type of rapper.

  Donald Glover

  Rap, Challenges, Type

  Source: www.coupdemainmagazine.com

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• I don't think I'm good, I don't think I'm a good rapper. I think a lot of people always want me to battle somebody and stuff like that which is cool, but I don't see myself as a rapper.

  Donald Glover

  Thinking, People, Battle

  "Donald Glover a.k.a. Childish Gambino backstage at Big Day Out '13". Interview with Shahlin Graves, www.coupdemainmagazine.com. March 21, 2013.

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• Rapper, just puts so much connotation on who you are and what is exposed. Even if a lot of it is out-dated, people still bring a lot to it.

  Donald Glover

  People, Connotation, Exposed

  "Donald Glover a.k.a. Childish Gambino backstage at Big Day Out '13". Interview with Shahlin Graves, www.coupdemainmagazine.com. March 21, 2013.

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• I got to meet a lot of cool people [on the Voice], and my favorite part about the experience was getting to sit around and do little jam sessions in the hotel. We were pretty much in lockdown at the hotel in downtown Los Angeles, and there wasn't much to do. It was interesting to be in a room with someone that was a rapper next to me, a country artist, then you have someone playing a song on the keyboard, and it was just really cool as just a random ensemble.

  Curtis Grimes

  Country, Song, Artist

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• Mama raised a hellraiser why cry, That's just life in the ghetto, do or die.

  Tupac Shakur

  Ghetto, Mama, Cry

  Song: Hell Razor, 1997

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• My raps are a decision, rabble rousing, spiritual, like gospel music. I don't want to dance. We have so many things to deal with, we need to talk straight up and down.

  Tupac Shakur

  Spiritual, Rap, Decision

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• I'm Uncle Snoop. That's the name I've been given in the industry because I'm like an Uncle to all of the rappers whether they are older than me or younger than me and I love giving advice. If I feel like they need some information, I give it to them, I sit them down and talk to them. I try to get all of the rappers on one page of peace, love and just having soul and just being about representing this music.

  Snoop Dogg

  Uncles, Names, Giving

  Interview with Ashahed M. Muhammad, www.finalcall.com. August 13, 2010.

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• Study your lessons, don't settle for less.

  Tupac Shakur

  Lessons, Study, Settling

  Song: Me Against the World, Album: Me Against the World

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• I think every rapper should know how to sing, like a little bit. I mean common man it'll make your rapping better straight up.

  SonReal

  Rap, Mean, Men

  Source: www.hiphopcanada.com

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• I think I write more outspoken than the average rapper.

  Kool Keith

  Writing, Thinking, Average

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• I stop and stare at the younger, my heart goes to 'em, they stressed out and goin' under.

  Tupac Shakur

  Heart, Stressed, Ems

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• I was a producer and rapper before Linkin Park. Once the band took off, it was the center of my focus. A couple of years ago, I started missing doing straight-up hip hop, and that's when Fort Minor began.

  Mike Shinoda

  Couple, Years, Focus

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• Yo get a real job. Rappin doesn't pay the rent, I hate the studio cause that's where all my money went.

  Tupac Shakur

  Jobs, Real, Hate

  Song: Strictly For My N.I.G.G.A.Z

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• People in the record business would say, Well, Pras, you know, you haven't been out in a while, maybe you should get today's hottest producer or rapper to do something.

  Pras Michel

  People, Records, Today

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

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• How many niggas want to be involved, see I was only talking Biggie, but I'll kill all of y'all.

  Tupac Shakur

  Talking, Biggie, Want

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