Rapper Quotes - Page 20

• 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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• I'm a very spiritual guy, very funny, emotional, I love women, I'm a playful guy. Sometimes I may get a little angry. So there's so many sides of me I want to be able to display and not be boxed in as just a trap rapper or a dope boy that wants to flex on everybody. I'm not into all of that.

  Cyhi the Prynce

  Spiritual, Boys, Dope

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• I believe that being a successful rapper is probably attainable.

  Jon Connor

  Believe, Successful, I Believe

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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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• Some people actually said I fell off at Nellyville cause I didn't sell as many as Country Grammar. I'm like are you kidding me? Sweat and Suit? I broke history, I was the first rapper to have 1st and 2nd album at the same time ever on billboard.

  Nelly

  Country, Sweat, People

  "Catching Up – Our Nelly Interview". Parlé Magazine Interview, www.parlemag.com. June 22, 2010.

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• There's a lot of good rappers in England at the moment. There's a lot of good dance acts. A lot of good, young guitar acts. I think a lot of groups came from that dole culture of the late 80's/early 90's - it's not as easy now. I think there's a dearth of working class bands.

  Ian Brown

  Thinking, Guitar, Class

  Source: rocksucker.co.uk

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• I think swag is very important to rappers. It's the overall appearance and style of an artist - these blue shorts and this blue hat and this $80,000 chain, this jewelry and all these tattoos, that's swag.

  Soulja Boy

  Tattoo, Artist, Thinking

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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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• 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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• 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 would never design anything. I just think that's kind of wack. I hated every rapper fashion line that ever came out, you know what I'm saying? I would never try.

  Danny Brown

  Fashion, Thinking, Design

  Interview with Sowmya Krishnamurthy, www.askmen.com.

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• I'm on the front line and I am a rapper.

  Ice T

  Lines, Fronts

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• I think rappers are the fall guy because some of us don't have the wits to point the finger back. The thing is when you take a whole generation and whip them out, string the mothers out and put the fathers in jail - the reason I know respect is because my father is the mediator between me and my grandfather. I'm the mediator between my son and my father because I'm old enough to understand where my father is coming from and young enough to understand what my kid is trying to do. When you whip out the mediator the kids run wild and the old people are scared of them.

  Nelly

  Mother, Running, Father

  "Catching Up – Our Nelly Interview". Parlé Magazine Interview, www.parlemag.com. June 22, 2010.

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• If someone had said to me ten years ago "Yo, we have this role of this pimp who wants to be a rapper, he lives in Memphis", I'd be like, "Really?" But then when you read it and you see it, you say "That's a great role."

  Morris Chestnut

  Years, Pimp, Roles

  "Morris Chestnut On When the Bough Breaks & Executive Producing". Interview with Screen Rant, screenrant.com. August 12, 2016.

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• I was only 11 when we filmed the pilot. The idea of a rapper being a star on a sitcom just wasn't heard of.

  Tatyana Ali

  Stars, Ideas, Pilots

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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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• 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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• LL Cool J was a rapper-turned-actor, and I also relate to him because he was sort of a ladies' man and had a female fan base, but yet he's a positive dude. You never read about him getting into trouble or going to jail.

  Bow Wow

  Men, Jail, Fans

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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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• You should be able to drink a clean cup of water and you should be able to write your own name. That's the kind of stuff that holds dear to me, not I'm the best rapper. That doesn't matter to me. At that point it's all ego to me and I don't want to be driven by that and I try my best not to.

  Asher Roth

  Writing, Names, Water

  Source: www.parlemag.com

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• [Big Pun] loved the fact that I could sing, everybody around us were rappers. A lot of people didn't know that Pun really, really loved r&b music.

  Tony Sunshine

  People, Facts, Bigs

  Source: youknowigotsoul.com

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• A lot of people are burning' C.D.'s. There are a lot of people burnin' peoples stuff, and that hurts a lot of rappers.

  Lil Boosie

  Hurt, People, Burning

  Source: djbooth.net

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• Hopefully the rappers can start to open the eyes in the neighborhoods and communities.

  Rakim

  Eye, Community, Neighborhood

  Source: halftimeonline.net

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• If anybody can make a change it's the rappers.

  Rakim

  Making Changes, Ifs

  Source: halftimeonline.net

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• Sometimes I feel I'm the luckiest rapper in the world.

  Rakim

  World, Sometimes, Feels

  Source: halftimeonline.net

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