Rapper Quotes - Page 25

• There's two elements to rap: having the thoughts, and then being a great rapper.

  Drake

  Rap, Two, Elements

  "Drake: I Remain Calm (Cover Story)". Complex Interview, www.complex.com. January 25, 2010.

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• There was a lot of negative that was put on rappers for using the word, and I feel like we're just misunderstood. Most of us are; some of us is just plain wack.

  Nas

  Misunderstood, Negative, Feels

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• I think artists should be able to do different things whenever they want and I like the way I am. I'm like - I ain't gonna say the only street rapper, but the only mainstream, new, young street rapper there is right now and I'm doing well with it.

  Meek Mill

  Thinking, Artist, Want

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• Those who dismiss rappers as vulgar outsiders miss the way that Jay-Z and Kanye embody the American dream: starting from humble beginnings, both rose by dint of hard work and talent to wealth and success. Jay embraces this role, styling himself as much a CEO as an artist, and he and Beyoncé have become, in a significant way, more fully America's first couple than their friends the Obamas.

  Andrew Hoberek

  Dream, Couple, Hard Work

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• It's no coincidence that all the greatest rappers - whoever you put in your top five - I guarantee you they a great storyteller.

  J. Cole

  Guarantees, Coincidence, Storyteller

  "VIBE Summer 2013 Cover: J. Cole And Nas". Interview with John Kennedy, www.vibe.com. August 13, 2013.

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• An old mans staffe is the rapper of deaths doore.

  George Herbert

  Old Man

  George Herbert (1874). “The Complete Works of George Herbert: Prose”, p.360

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• As a rapper, I don't freestyle. I used to freestyle when I used to get drunk, and it didn't matter.

  Andre Benjamin

  Drunk, Matter, Used

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• As a rapper, your verses are like a window in to who you are.

  Andre Benjamin

  Window, Verses, Who You Are

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• I think I'm a whole lot to handle. I definitely am, on every aspect. I'm the video director. I'm the graphics designer. I'm the rapper. I'm the visionary. I'm the music producer. I'm the executive producer. I'm just going to end it off to be poetic: I'm the future of music.

  Kanye West

  Thinking, Visionaries, Directors

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• If I do become more successful, either as a producer or a rapper, I'm going to do everything I can to help whoever I can on the label.

  Kanye West

  Successful, Labels, Helping

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• I don't even think I'm that good at rapping, but I think what makes a great rapper - what CAN make a great rapper - is someone who wants to be better.

  Donald Glover

  Rap, Thinking, Want

  "Donald Glover a.k.a. Childish Gambino backstage at Big Day Out '13". Interview with Shahlin Graves, www.coupdemainmagazine.com. March 21, 2013.

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• There are some rappers out there that I listen to, that I'm like: "You are really good but you could be like the Michael Jordan of rap if you applied yourself." There's a lot of people who are better at basketball than Michael Jordan, but Michael Jordan just wanted to be Michael Jordan, more.

  Donald Glover

  Basketball, Rap, People

  "Donald Glover a.k.a. Childish Gambino backstage at Big Day Out '13". Interview with Shahlin Graves, www.coupdemainmagazine.com. March 21, 2013.

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• I would never challenge any rapper to a rap-off. It's weird, I'm not that type of rapper.

  Donald Glover

  Rap, Challenges, Type

  Source: www.coupdemainmagazine.com

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• I don't think I'm good, I don't think I'm a good rapper. I think a lot of people always want me to battle somebody and stuff like that which is cool, but I don't see myself as a rapper.

  Donald Glover

  Thinking, People, Battle

  "Donald Glover a.k.a. Childish Gambino backstage at Big Day Out '13". Interview with Shahlin Graves, www.coupdemainmagazine.com. March 21, 2013.

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• Rapper, just puts so much connotation on who you are and what is exposed. Even if a lot of it is out-dated, people still bring a lot to it.

  Donald Glover

  People, Connotation, Exposed

  "Donald Glover a.k.a. Childish Gambino backstage at Big Day Out '13". Interview with Shahlin Graves, www.coupdemainmagazine.com. March 21, 2013.

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• 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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• I rarely get mentioned in the same category as these other guys who have come out after me...[b]ut maybe I'm not that, maybe I'm not an Internet rapper.

  Danny Denzongpa

  Guy, Internet, Categories

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• As long as I'm not selling out the people that ride or die with me, I'm glad I'm not an MC. I'm a motivational speaker. I'm not that rapper dude.

  Young Jeezy

  Long, People, Selling

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• When you're rapping, you do have to perform to a certain degree, but not every rapper is necessarily a gifted actor.

  Queen Latifah

  Rap, Degrees, Actors

  Interview with Nathan Rabin, www.avclub.com. October 30, 2002.

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• I love when rappers have a off-beat, very abstract timing, and he certainly did.And any rapper who really approaches rapping with the art form of songwriting melodically - I know a bunch of rappers who actually go in before they write the lyrics and come up with the melody. And you can hear and feel that difference so much when that's the case.

  Solange Knowles

  Art, Rap, Writing

  Source: www.npr.org

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• I'm Uncle Snoop. That's the name I've been given in the industry because I'm like an Uncle to all of the rappers whether they are older than me or younger than me and I love giving advice. If I feel like they need some information, I give it to them, I sit them down and talk to them. I try to get all of the rappers on one page of peace, love and just having soul and just being about representing this music.

  Snoop Dogg

  Uncles, Names, Giving

  Interview with Ashahed M. Muhammad, www.finalcall.com. August 13, 2010.

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• I got to meet a lot of cool people [on the Voice], and my favorite part about the experience was getting to sit around and do little jam sessions in the hotel. We were pretty much in lockdown at the hotel in downtown Los Angeles, and there wasn't much to do. It was interesting to be in a room with someone that was a rapper next to me, a country artist, then you have someone playing a song on the keyboard, and it was just really cool as just a random ensemble.

  Curtis Grimes

  Country, Song, Artist

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• I think every rapper should know how to sing, like a little bit. I mean common man it'll make your rapping better straight up.

  SonReal

  Rap, Mean, Men

  Source: www.hiphopcanada.com

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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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• I was a producer and rapper before Linkin Park. Once the band took off, it was the center of my focus. A couple of years ago, I started missing doing straight-up hip hop, and that's when Fort Minor began.

  Mike Shinoda

  Couple, Years, Focus

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