Rapper Quotes - Page 13

• It seems like I have more in common - or hit it off better - with rappers than fools that are in rock music. It was always natural for me.

  Travis Barker

  Rocks, Fool, Common

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• I think more people want to be rappers than anything else.

  Nas

  Thinking, People, Want

  Source: www.wbur.org

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• We ain't meant to survive, cause it's a setup, And even though you're fed up, Huh, ya got to keep your head up.

  Tupac Shakur

  Causes, Feds, Fed Up

  Song: Keep Ya Head Up

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• I'm not going to be like a rapper and mention the people I'm talking about in my songs by name.

  Austin Carlile

  Song, Talking, Names

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• I'm a producer/rapper so I feel like I can do anything. I can do all kinds of music. I've done all kinds of music and I'm good at it.

  Juicy J

  Done, Kind, Producers

  Source: www.complex.com

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• All rappers predominantly sound the same and want you to think their meanest person in the world, and that they're all gangster and all that. My acting allowed me to be playful and crazy, and it helps me tell stories and all that. I think it's a good time; rap needs that kind of stuff.

  Nicki Minaj

  Crazy, Rap, Thinking

  Source: slumz.boxden.com

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• A lot of rappers want somebody to always sing on their records. If you can hold a note, they're gonna' ask you to come and be apart of their creativity. At that time, they were eager and on the streets selling drugs or in the studio making music. That was a big part of our lives were I grew up.

  Nicki Minaj

  Creativity, Drug, Records

  Source: slumz.boxden.com

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• Icelandic peoples were the ones who memorized sagas... We were the first rappers of Europe.

  Bjork

  Europe, Firsts, Saga

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• I was competitive in the ring and hip-hop is competitive too... I think rappers condition themselves like boxers, so they all kind of feel like they're the champ.

  Curtis Jackson

  Thinking, Hip Hop, Boxers

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• I'm my favorite rapper.

  Kanye West

  My Favorite

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• I'm from New York and I love New York and I'm always repping New York, but what I represent is something deeper than just being a New York rapper.

  ASAP Rocky

  New York, Just Being, Deeper

  Interview with Carrie Battan, pitchfork.com. January 7, 2013.

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• I hate the hype. When 50 Cent came out, people were saying that he was the best rapper alive: "Oh, he got shot nine times, he's better than Tupac, he's better than Biggie." That was all hype.

  ASAP Rocky

  Hate, Hype, People

  Interview with Carrie Battan, pitchfork.com. January 7, 2013.

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• I'm a singer who thinks like a rapper.

  Mary J. Blige

  Thinking, Singers

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• I'm gonna be real - there's no female rappers in the game.

  SpaceGhostPurrp

  Real, Games, Female

  Source: pitchfork.com

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• My kid was a great baseball player. I thought I had it made. Front-row seats at Yankee Stadium. Then he turned sixteen and wanted to be a rapper.

  James Caan

  Baseball, Kids, Player

  "James Caan: What I've Learned". Interview with Ross Johnson, www.esquire.com. January 29, 2007.

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• I never was the battle rapper. That was never my thing. I always felt like it's enough room for everybody to do their thing. I like bringing new energy, re-inventing the wheel, so to speak, every time I come out.

  Nelly

  Battle, Energy, Rooms

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• When I wanted to be professionally known as a rapper I said I wanna take the moniker Gucci Mane. But all the people in my hood, not even my closest friends but everybody in Atlanta, calls me Guwop. I didn't start it. I can't put my finger on how it spread. I know it started from my boys but then everybody who I collaborate picked up on it and they'd say it to me.

  Gucci Mane

  Boys, Atlanta, People

  Source: www.thefader.com

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• I'm not a pop rapper. That's nothing against pop music - I love pop music. I've jumped on pop records for people and still will, but I'm not a pop artist. I didn't start from there. I started in underground music. I consider myself an underground artist, as well as a producer.

  Juicy J

  Artist, People, Records

  Source: brightestyoungthings.com

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• Rappers should be forced to rhyme in their acceptance speeches.

  Doug Benson

  Acceptance, Speech, Should

  Twitter post from Aug 25, 2013

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• The way I think I should stay out of trouble is by stayin' busy. With idle time comes a lot of biz, so the more my work load is heavy, I'll have no time to get into any trouble or makin' dis tracks or get into conversation about any other rappers.

  Gucci Mane

  Thinking, Track, Way

  Interview with DJ "Z", djbooth.net. 2007.

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• I think it's kinda funny that all these rappers that used to be gangsters and thugs are telling us not to download their music from the internet, because that's stealing. Wow talk about ironic.

  Daniel Tosh

  Thug, Thinking, Ironic

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• There is only a relationship between music and sports because all athletes want to be rappers and all rappers want to be athletes.

  Dwyane Wade

  Sports, Athlete, Want

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• When I write, I don't really focus on duets or anything like that, or whether I'm going to feature this or that rapper. I just focus on just making a great song and figure out the rest later.

  John Legend

  Song, Writing, Focus

  Interview with David Morris, www.askmen.com.

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• My freestyling ability is nonexistent. I can't even write a verse if I tried to sit anywhere and write one. Being a good rapper is hard to do. I'm a good Rapaport, but that's about it.

  Michael Rapaport

  Writing, Ability, Verses

  "Actor Michael Rapaport’s Rap Quest". Interview with Aaron Ross, www.motherjones.com. July 01, 2011.

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• The attitudes of many police organizations were extremely negative to the prospect of Rap, and many officials weren't afraid to say that they were against it. To them, Rappers were just criminals waiting to get caught.

  Assata Shakur

  Attitude, Rap, Organization

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