Rapper Quotes - Page 17

• 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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• In the history of the hip hop world...there has been one, single, solitary human being in the history of the world. One female rapper to sell more albums than me in the first week.

  Nicki Minaj

  Hip Hop, World, Firsts

  Source: observer.com

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• Dont call me a rapper, I’m an artist. Update your minds. I ‘INCORPORATE’ hip hop elements because I am part MC, but I am all things musical. All things melodically beautiful.

  Kid Cudi

  Beautiful, Artist, Hip Hop

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• Why shouldn't rap be esoteric, able to take in current events, history and criticism? I guess it's this old idea of containment - that rappers, because they're black, can't and shouldn't aspire to look outside the ghetto for influence.

  Saul Williams

  Rap, Ghetto, Ideas

  "A new beginning for the word" by Burhan Wazir, www.theguardian.com. August 5, 2001.

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• You know the world's gone mad when the best rapper is a white guy, the best golfer is a black guy, the Swiss hold the America's Cup, France is accusing the USA of arrogance and the Germans don't want to go to war !

  Chris Rock

  War, Usa, White

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• I wish I was a rapper. There are certainly times when I wish I could just drop an album and channel all my ideas, anger, humor and energy into some music and be done with it.

  Todd Boyd

  Rap, Ideas, Wish

  Todd Boyd (2004). “The New H. N. I. C.: The Death of Civil Rights and the Reign of Hip Hop”, p.9, NYU Press

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• Everybody in the '80s, well, we hate rap. Now, the biggest rapper in the world... Eminem. Rap's a black thing.

  Chubby Checker

  Hate, Rap, Black

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• Most rappers these days is actors,
  And I can't keep watching the same movie.

  Mick Jenkins

  Rap, Hip Hop, Actors

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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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• You know the world is messed up when the tallest man in the NBA is Chinese, the best golfer is black, and the best rapper is white.

  Chris Rock

  Men, Nba, White

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• I've got a million people telling me why I can't do it. You know, that I'm not a real designer, that I'm not this. I'm not a real rapper, either!

  Kanye West

  Real, People, Designer

  "I've got a million people telling me why I can't do it. You know, that I'm not a real designer, that I'm not this. I'm not a real rapper, either!" by Adelle Platon, www.hollywoodreporter.com. March 21, 2016.

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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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• Brother Kendrick Lamar: he's not a rapper, he's a writer, he's an author. And if you read between the lines, we'll learn how to love one another. But you can't do that, I said you can't do that, without loving yourself first.

  Kendrick Lamar

  Brother, Loving Yourself, Read Between The Lines

  "Kendrick Lamar’s ‘i’ Brings On The Soul In Catchy First Single" By Ryan Kristobak, www.huffingtonpost.com. September 23, 2014.

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• Guys pit female rappers against each other because female rappers - if you haven't noticed of late - are a lot more interesting than guys.

  Angel Haze

  Interesting, Guy, Female

  " Angel Haze: 'Right now, no one can beat me'" by Hermione Hoby, www.theguardian.com. September 1, 2012.

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• I strive for perfection, but Im not perfect. But what I can say is my morals are totally different than any other 24-year-old rapper my age now. I look at life totally different. A whole other aspect. I have different views and morals on life in general. And opinions.

  ASAP Rocky

  Views, Years, Perfect

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• If I were born in other generation, I would be a singer rapper, dancing is also...I was famous as a good dancer. My dancing skill was just hided by other members better skill.

  Yesung

  Skills, Dancing, Dancer

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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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• I think it's such open game to make fun of myself. First of all, as a white rapper you have to have an angle and not try to be ghetto or anything. You can count on one hand the white rappers that have made it.

  Simon Rex

  Fun, Ghetto, Thinking

  Source: www.mediaite.com

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• There are poor white people who hear rap music and feel it is about them, because it is. That's why you have an Eminem and a Bubba Sparxxx and rappers like that.

  Russell Simmons

  Rap, White, People

  Interview with Nathan Rabin, www.avclub.com. September 26, 2002.

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• I was so obsessed with 2Pac. He was one of the first rappers I heard. "Dear Mama" was one of the first tracks I ever memorized.

  Shwayze

  Track, Firsts, Mama

  Source: upc.fm

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• There's a lot of real unity - and a lot fake unity, sadly. I think a lot of people are going to get an opportunity to pursue greatness and pursue careers outside of D.C. Not everybody is going to make it. I think there's a connotation that there's a lack of rappers out there.

  Wale

  Real, Opportunity, Greatness

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• Being a black rapper is like being a Southern, socialite woman: You're always worried about appearances.

  Killer Mike

  Southern, Black, Appearance

  Source: pitchfork.com

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• I'm a ghetto man who made good. I never forgot where I came from and who put me on top - God and Jack The Rapper.

  James Brown

  Ghetto, Men, Made

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• I'm the most sampled and stolen. What's mine is mine, and what's yours is mine, too... I got a song about that... But I'm never gonna release it. Don't want a war with the rappers. If it wasn't good, they wouldn't steal it.

  James Brown

  Song, War, Want

  "Being James Brown," Rolling Stone Magazine, June 12, 2006.

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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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