Rapper Quotes - Page 31

• Rap was forbidden with the people who were interviewing us and the shows that I was getting [booked on], and I had kind of crossed over. So Jerry [Heller, who managed N.W.A.] would tell me, 'Do not say you're a rapper, always say you're R&B.'

  Michel'le

  Rap, People, Kind

  Source: www.elle.com

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• No rapper in the world from Jay-Z to Tupac to Biggie has 100 percent love on everything they do.

  J. Cole

  Biggie, World, Percent

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• Rappers hate each other, not the labels that got rich,
  Don't care about culture, they only want profit.
  If your album sell slow, bet you'll get dropped quick;
  Q-Tip warned us: the industry's toxic.
  For reference, check out BDP's Sex and Violence.

  Cormega

  Sex, Hate, Rap

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• I used to do the beat box. A friend of mine, he was the rapper and after, we'd be doing a block party or something or a house party, and he's gettin' all the attention and I'd end up with a handful of spit, you know, from doing the beats.

  DMX

  Block, Party, Spit Up

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• For me rappers and dancers are poets and artists and often times the most interesting performances are given by them.

  Ice Cube

  Artist, Interesting, Dancer

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• I've always had a passion for rap, and I might not be the greatest rapper, but I'm better than half of them out there.

  Tony Sunshine

  Rap, Passion, Half

  Source: youknowigotsoul.com

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• I didn't choose to be a rapper; it's just my talent.

  Cakes da killa

  Talent

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• My love of words, alcohol, and stage antics basically cemented me as a rapper, but it wasn't a career that I wanted to do. It was just, "I like to do all these things at one time."

  Cakes da killa

  Careers, Alcohol, Stage

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• Your reign on the top was short like leprechauns,
  As I crush so-called Willies, thugs, and rapper-dons.

  The Notorious B.I.G.

  Crush, Rap, Thug

  Song: Kick In The Door, Album: Life After Death

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• I get imaginative with a mouth full of adjectives,
  A brain full of adverbs, and a box full of laxatives,
  Shittin' on rappers, causin' hospital accidents.

  Eminem

  Rap, Hip Hop, Brain

  Song: Still Don't Give a Fuck

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• How many rappers in the game have "little" in front of their name? Lil' Wayne, Lil' Boosie it's a lil' shame Lil' Flip, Lil' Cease, yo they not the same Lil' Wyte, Lil' Mama, where Lil' Zane? Little Brother, Lil' Jon, and Lil' Fame Real hip hop, not about your lil' chain Lil' Keke, Lil' Kim a lil' freaky Lil' Fizz, Illegal with Lil' Maliky Lil' Mo, Lil' Bow Wow had beef with Lil' Romeo A lil' teenager told me so.

  Ed O.G.

  Brother, Real, Teenager

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• I learned to fly planes at fifteen years old because one of my teachers thought I'd be a better pilot than rapper.

  Killer Mike

  Teacher, Years, Fifteen

  Interview with Eric Ducker, believermag.com. July 2014.

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• In terms of content, a lot of rap is crap, with all the sexism and homophobic bullshit. It's incredible how rappers are always preaching nonconformity - you know, "I'm just gonna go my own way and be my own man and blah blah blah" - but they're the first ones to do so many things that they have to do. They have to do that hip-hop thing, a certain way of walking, and it's so conformist.

  Nellie McKay

  Rap, Men, Bullshit

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• Somebody can do a ten year stint in jail and when they come home, they can be a rapper. Or, they can go from doing the 9-5 thing and become a rapper because everyone else is doing it. I think that the test of time will tell. If you look around you'll find out who really wants to do it and who is doing it for the come up. I think that's the greatest separation. At some point along the line, it became gangsta to not be talented!

  Lloyd Banks

  Home, Gangsta, Thinking

  Source: www.ballerstatus.com

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• I can't expect rappers to be politicized when Americans are not socially motivated enough to care about their own lives and public policy as much as they were even 20 years ago. But I'm compelled to make the music I make regardless.

  Killer Mike

  Care, Enough, Motivated

  Source: pitchfork.com

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• As far as my single selections, over the years it's been a very essential part of my survival tactic, but I have no problem being able to jump on records with whoever people think is the rawest rapper in the game or number one or King or whatever they wanna name themselves, to be honest with you. It doesn't affect me, 'cause that's what I come from; I'm comfortable in that zone. But I don't wanna make hood music, I don't wanna make street music, I want to make world music, global music, international music.

  Pitbull

  Kings, Thinking, Years

  Source: djbooth.net

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• I never worry 'cause people always try to categorize me. "Oh, that's reggaeton." "Oh, he's a Latin rapper." "Oh, he's crunk." "Oh, he's a Southern rapper," or, "He's a club rapper." As long as they're listening to the music and they're talkin' about it, one way or the other, that means I'm doing something right.

  Pitbull

  Latin, Mean, Long

  Source: djbooth.net

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• Why is it rappers feel like they have to show each other their balls? It's so frustrating to me and the fact that I've come to the realization that I'm not playing that game and I'm just happy whether I'm sitting on the keyboard, up on the stage, or doing post edit vocals alignments for someone I don't even know, I'm happy. I am successful in my own eyes.

  Grieves

  Eye, Successful, Realization

  Source: www.hiphopcanada.com

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• I've been a freelancer my whole life. It's sort of been my ethos that wherever something takes me, it takes me, so, that was really the start of me trying my hand at whatever it was at the time. I've gone from doing sculpture to videos to being a set builder and working for a general contractor to jewelry maker to now, a rapper... I just love to create. I've had a stint doing pretty much everything! It sort of doesn't matter what it is, as long as I'm doing it. I love to see something from conception to final product. I love trying new things and seeing them through.

  Njena Reddd Foxxx

  Long, Trying, Jewelry

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• I was kind of in an experimental phase with The Disposable Rappers. This is boring to me, because it's true, but when I was a sophomore in high school, I visited my sister in college and saw an improv troupe, and that was a genuine moment for me. It was an actual "Aha!" moment. After I saw that, I said, "I want to do comedy." So The Disposable Rappers started doing improv in addition to rapping, and when I went to college, I very specifically went saying "I want to join a comedy group."

  Michael Showalter

  Rap, School, College

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• There's not too many artist that can handle what we would call an Christian R&B sound. It's kind of a limited field as far as singers go. Just hoping that more artist like that can resonate and grow.In terms of female rappers, man hey come on! We're here...come talk to us!

  LeCrae

  Christian, Artist, Men

  Source: thegospelguru.com

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• If you'd asked me what I'd wanted to do five years ago, I'd have told you I wanted to be Viktor Vaughn or The Game - I would want to be a rapper with an eight ball of coke in my pocket and a wad of hundreds. Because that kind of freedom - well, perceived freedom - is where I want to be.

  John Vanderslice

  Kind

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• A few years back, even the most commercial pop could have some artistic value. Someone who liked underground music could appreciate Justin Timberlake, too. Now, I just don't get it. Production values are boring; songwriting has gotten worse - the choruses on a lot of popular hip-hop songs are especially bad. The rappers hit their flow in the verses, then when they try to sing, it's a mess. And just like the airbrush tool in Photoshop, Autotune is way overused. It's not a toy!

  Jorge Elbrecht

  Song, Appreciate, Trying

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• Without the piano, I would never have attempted to rap, because I'm a poor rapper. I'm enthusiastic, but it takes me a long time to write eight bars of rap. I would battle any pianist, and yet I would forfeit happily before even getting into a rap battle with anyone.

  Chilly Gonzales

  Rap, Writing, Long

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• If you're going to point out the ridiculousness of a rule, it's naïve to think that you can break it. It's the same way that rappers have embraced capitalism. Some people say they liked it better when rap was a literal protest form in the '90s. But I think it's more a form of protest today, because it's telling the story of what happens once something forbidden is within reach. I think rap is more political today when it speaks about luxury watches than it does about fighting the power.

  Chilly Gonzales

  Rap, Fighting, Thinking

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