Rapper Quotes - Page 22

• Im probably the only one in the world you can name thats worked with Billie Holiday, Louie Armstrong, Ella, Duke, Miles, Dizzy, Ray Charles, Aretha, Michael Jackson, rappers. Fly Me to the Moon was played on the moon by Buzz Aldrin. Sinatra. Paul Simon. Tony Bennett. Im the only one.

  Quincy Jones

  Holiday, Moon, Names

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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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• Well, you know what? If that guy can do it, I can be myself too, and if that rapper can be himself and be free and be happy and still hold masculinity and love people and love flowers and just be happy being alive, well then, I can do that too.

  Lil B

  Flower, People, Guy

  "Rapper Lil B on 'I'm Gay': 'We're all one people'". Interview with Gavin Godfrey, www.cnn.com. May 31, 2011.

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• I'm a minimalist in a rapper's body.

  Kanye West

  Body, Minimalist

  "Behind Kanye’s Mask". Interview with Jon Caramanica, www.nytimes.com. June 11, 2013.

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• It's only five rappers out of Atlanta who bussin and I'm one of 'em; the other four you know who you are; but if you gotta think twice (well) shawty ya ain't nice; regardless of ya publishin' deal ya can't write

  T.I.

  Nice, Rap, Writing

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• When white people wear baggy clothing and speak gibberish they're homeless, when black people wear baggy clothing and speak gibberish they're called rappers.

  Carlos Mencia

  White, People, Black

  "Mind of Mencia". Comedy Series, 2005 - 2008.

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• This one Corbusier lamp was like, my greatest inspiration ... I'm a minimalist in a rapper's body.

  Kanye West

  Inspiration, Lamps, Body

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• These broke rappers always rappin bout a pink truck. I'm only happy when I'm hoppin out the Brinks truck.

  Nicki Minaj

  Money, Truck, Broke

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• Why can't rappers just say nice things? Like I wanna take your clothes off and hang them up in the closet real nice.

  Ellen DeGeneres

  Real, Nice, Clothes

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• You can't run game on a rapper. I'm always 10 steps ahead of you.

  Nicki Minaj

  Running, Games, Steps

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• I am the beast, Feed me rappers or feed me beats

  Lil Wayne

  Beast, Beats

  FaceBook post by Lil Wayne from Apr 24, 2014

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• Some of these guys... I've worked with Ice Cube, I think he's an immensely talented rapper and actor.

  Anthony Anderson

  Hockey, Thinking, Ice

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

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• I think that Mos Def is the best actor, but when you talk about rappers in films, I don't really think the quality of the acting is most important because most rappers are put in movies because of the personality and people want to see that.

  Morris Chestnut

  Thinking, People, Personality

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

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• All those rappers, they're the only glamorous people working in music now. They dress up in these chains of gold, cars, girls and this and that, high-heeled shoes.

  Bryan Ferry

  Girl, High Heels, Shoes

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• I always wanted to be one of the hottest rappers.

  Meek Mill

  Wanted, Hottest

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• Far from the richest rapper, but my biggest personal achievement thus far in my life has been retiring my mom early from her job at the Post Office. It's a tiny payback for the sacrifices she made that allowed me to chase a far-fetched dream of becoming a successful artist. I'm forever grateful.

  J. Cole

  Mom, Dream, Jobs

  "J. Cole tributes his mom Kay Cole in Born Sinner series" by Nadeska Alexis, www.mtv.com. May 8, 2013.

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• Usually I start with a beat, I start making a beat, and my producer side is making the beat. And on a good day, my rapper side will jump in and start the writing process - maybe come up with a hook or start a verse. Sometimes it just happens like that. A song like 'Lights Please' happens like that.

  J. Cole

  Song, Writing, Good Day

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• I was never just a 'fill in 16 bars on a beat' rapper. I was making real songs from the jump.

  Mac Miller

  Song, Real, Bars

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• All the lyrical rappers I know is broke.

  French Montana

  Lyrical, Broke, Knows

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• Don't respect a lot of rappers, feel I had a harder life

  Kevin Gates

  Harder, Feels

  FaceBook post by Kevin Gates from Feb 03, 2014

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