Rapper Quotes - Page 23

• I mean, it's not just the rappers, you know what i'm saying? People want to attack anybody that's a large figure, you know what I'm saying? They did it to [Michael] Jordan, they did it to [Mike] Tyson, they did it to Bill Cosby, you know what I'm saying? They're gonna' attack you if you on top.

  The Notorious B.I.G.

  Mean, People, Want

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• I can't give up. It's a rap thang. And I ain't goin back to the crack game.

  Tupac Shakur

  Giving Up, Rap, Games

  Song: Point The Finga

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• I would love to be friends with Kendrick Lamar because I am just a huge fan of his music, I think he is so cool and he uses so many interesting sounds and has such good melodies and is just a beautiful rapper, his raps are just so well-written and his tracks are so insane, I am obsessed with him.

  Alana Haim

  Beautiful, Rap, Thinking

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• I don't really like to write anywhere but my own apartment. I send a lot of text messages to myself as email when I'm not at home. My texts are usually like, "If I ever break up with my boyfriend I want to date a very angry rapper."

  Chelsea Martin

  Home, Writing, My Boyfriend

  Source: therumpus.net

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• I think people were genuinely addicted to hip hop in the 90s, addicted to the idea of empowerment. I think it came from [the fact that] the rappers in the 90s, their parents coming from the 70s, had such a rich variety of records to sample.

  M.I.A.

  Thinking, Ideas, People

  Source: thequietus.com

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• Why isn't it hip-hop when I do it? Everybody else can have beef within the music, talk about differences and it's ok. It's music, it's hip-hop, it's ground breaking. When I do it, it's war.

  Tupac Shakur

  War, Differences, Hip Hop

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• If you walked by a street and you was walking a concrete and you saw a rose growing from concrete, even if it had messed up petals and it was a little to the side you would marvel at just seeing a rose grow through concrete. So way is it that when you see some ghetto kid grow out of the dirtiest circumstance and he can talk and he can sit across the room and make you cry, make you laugh, all you can talk about is my dirty rose, my dirty stems and how am leaning crooked to the side, u can't even see that I've come up from out of that.

  Tupac Shakur

  Dirty, Kids, Ghetto

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• Gettin high, livin' everday, like i'm gonna die.

  Tupac Shakur

  Dies

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• Should we cry when the pope dies, my request we should cry if they cried when we buried Malcom X

  Tupac Shakur

  Cry, Pope, Should

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• Straight from the heart, I represent hip hop
  I be three albums deep, but I don't wanna go pop
  Too many candy rappers seem to be at the top
  Too much candy is no good, so now I'm closing the shop.

  Phife Dawg

  Music, Rap, Heart

  "Song: 'We Can Get Down'". 1993.

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• Us as rappers underestimate the power and effects that we have on these kids

  Macklemore

  Rap, Kids, Underestimate

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• I'm in my dressing room about to play to a sold-out crowd at the O2 arena in Ireland. Name a female rapper who's ever done that and I will give you $100,000.

  Nicki Minaj

  Inspirational, Play, Names

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• These other rappers getting bodied and carried away.

  Drake

  Humble, Carried Away

  Song: Moment 4 Life, Album: Heartbreak Drake 2K11: The 2nd Semester

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• When Elton John sang a duet with the white rapper Eminem on a Grammy telecast, rap went mainstream. Massive parental headaches followed.

  Bill O'Reilly

  Rap, White, Duets

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• Rappers are emotional. Critics be reviewin me. But I got love for everybody even if you're suin me.

  Drake

  Hater, Humble, Emotional

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• Work som', twerk som' basis. She just tryna make it so she's right here gettin naked. I don't judge her-I don't judge her. But I could never love her cause to her I'm just a rapper and soon she'll have met another.

  Drake

  Humble, Judging, Hoe

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• A couple years ago it was really hard for me to sing, because there's so much pressure in hip-hop to be a certain way. My biggest thing right now is doing me, because I'm not like other rappers.

  SonReal

  Couple, Years, Hip Hop

  Source: www.hiphopcanada.com

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• Expose foes wit my hocus pocus flows, they froze now suckas idolize my chosen blows

  Tupac Shakur

  Blow, Flow, Hocus Pocus

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• Almost every rapper has a track that talks about their dreams.

  Boi-1da

  Dream, Track

  Source: www.hiphopcanada.com

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• I'm a rapper trying to be an actor.

  Method Man

  Trying, Actors

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• I'm not more or less conscious than any other rapper out there.

  Macklemore

  Conscious

  "Macklemore's Brand Of Socially Conscious Rap". "Tell Me More" with Celeste Headlee, www.npr.org. November 23, 2012.

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• All rappers are princesses like me.

  Earl Sweatshirt

  Princess, Like Me

  "What I've Learned: Earl Sweatshirt, on Being a Teenage Rap Prodigy Back From Exile" by Nate Hopper, www.esquire.com. August 19, 2013.

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• I don't wanna forget the fact that I wanna be one of the best rappers. I feel like some of the best rappers ever - 2Pac, namely, one of them - could take sub-par beats or average beats and turn them into incredible songs.

  J. Cole

  Song, Average, Facts

  Source: djbooth.net

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• I wanna show you I can out-rap your favorite rappers. I wanna show you I can out-produce your favorite producers. So I'm constantly getting better and I understand that there's always room for growth, especially in quality, sonic quality.

  J. Cole

  Rap, Growth, Quality

  Source: www.wbur.org

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• You can be the coldest rapper, but if you're not known, you're nobody.

  E-40

  Known, Ifs

  Source: licensed2ill.wordpress.com

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