Rapper Quotes - Page 32

• Maybe it's easier to have that desire guest-spot-packed album, for example, you're a rapper and you need someone to sing the hook. I guess for us, it just kind of feels like we want to explore ourselves more. That sounds kind of cheesy, but I don't know. I have a lot of artists whose music I have this perfect relationship with, and I don't really feel like I need to meet them or get to know them or write with them because of it.

  Yukimi Nagano

  Writing, Artist, Perfect

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• I really don't try to force the creative process. I'm really jealous of those other rappers who just hear a beat and write a song within minutes. I know a lot of rappers like that. I'm the type of artist who kind of has to sit with some stuff for a while.

  Alexander Spit

  Song, Jealous, Writing

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• Classical slap-stick rappers need Chapstick.

  Daniel Dumile

  Rap, Hip Hop, Needs

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• I've always told myself that I'm going to be something. Growing up, if somebody told me I was going to be a rapper, I would have been like, "Really? That's cool." I wouldn't have been like, "No, I'm not." But it happened. I didn't expect anything and don't expect anything but to be great.

  Dillon Cooper

  Growing Up

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• When you start to really travel and you get to these abstract like places in the world, you would see certain people's names. It seemed like we could go anywhere. Like when we went to Afghanistan, you'd see in the dressing room Run DMC's name. Certain rappers are like journey men.

  Ice T

  Running, Journey, Men

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• As a rapper, I feel like image is always important but even more so than image, I really love clothes, that's why I don't use stylists. I want to do it myself because I really love it.

  Kanye West

  Clothes, Important, Use

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• I feel like there's a lot of rappers that could out-rap me and I wouldn't want to face any of them.

  Donald Glover

  Rap, Want, Faces

  "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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• It's funny, I don't even consider myself a rapper, I don't consider myself a designer, or even an actor. I just like creating stuff and trying to make good work, whatever it is. I don't care if it's designing toothbrushes. It's just making cool stuff to leave behind, that's all it is, it's nothing more.

  Andre Benjamin

  Creating, Design, Trying

  Source: www.gq.com

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• I am a singer, not a full-on rapper.

  Cher Lloyd

  Singers

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• I think people see me definitely as a "gangsta" rapper, and what people love about me is when they meet me and they meet me again later, I'm the same dude they spoke to and ain't nothing changed.

  Sheek Louch

  Thinking, Gangsta, People

  Source: www.djbooth.net

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• When I started emceein', you had 500 maybe 1000 rappers in the whole world. Now there's 1.000.000, nahmean?

  RZA

  World, Whole, Whole World

  Source: www.hiphopcore.net

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• I consider myself to be an entertainer, given that I'm most known as MGK "the rapper" I don't have a problem with the label, I just want the people to know that I am much more than that.

  Machine Gun Kelly

  People, Labels, Want

  Source: imfromcleveland.com

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• I'm not a conscious rapper, all those things we talk about, the struggle, the pain, the outlook to the future, keep your head up. I try to put all those positive things into a regular human character, which is myself.

  J. Cole

  Pain, Struggle, Character

  "J. Cole Talks Roc Nation, Meeting Jay-Z & 'The Warm Up' Mixtape". Interview with Damien Scott, www.complex.com. May 2, 2009.

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• It's like they want to shut rappers down. They want to silence us. The Supreme Court says it's OK for a white man to burn a cross in public. But nobody wants a black man to write a record about a cop killer.

  Ice T

  Writing, Men, White Man

  Source: articles.latimes.com

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• I think there's a certain stigma that comes with being a white rapper and having a show.

  Mike Stud

  Thinking, White, Certain

  Source: www.axs.com

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• I was curious because I hadn't really known anyone to do just that, so I would stop in on his sessions with his rapper friends, and then one day, I told Astro Raw "I'm looking to sing. He told me to try it out and then we made 'Treat Me Like Fire' and everything started."

  Jillian Hervey

  Fire, Trying, One Day

  Source: www.marieclaire.com

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• My life after childhood has two main stories: the story of the hustler and the story of the rapper, and the two overlap as much as they diverge. I was on the streets for more than half of my life from the time I was thirteen years old. People sometimes say that now I'm so far away from that life - now that I've got businesses and Grammys and magazine covers - that I have no right to rap about it. But how distant is the story of your own life ever going to be? The feelings I had during that part of my life were burned into me like a brand. It was life during wartime.

  Jay-Z

  Rap, Two, Years

  "Decoded". Book by Jay-Z, December 7, 2010.

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• The rapping is cool, but my lines aren't all that fly. People like Biggie Smalls or Jay-Z who say stuff that you have to rewind and listen to twice and be like, "Wow, what made them say that?" or "I would have never thought about saying that" - those are rappers I really look up to. As far as flows, I can give you flows all day.

  Missy Elliot

  Rap, People, Giving

  "New Again: Missy Elliott". Interview with Michael Musto, www.interviewmagazine.com. July 30, 2014.

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• ...The greatest rapper of all time died on March 9th.
  God bless his soul, rest in peace, kid.
  It's because of him now at least I know what beef is.

  Canibus

  Rest In Peace, Rap, Kids

  Song: Second Round Knockout, Album: Can-I-Bus, 1998

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• Being called a conscious rapper is quite a compliment. It's a great thing to be. But as an artist, my nature is to not be in a box.

  Talib Kweli

  Artist, Compliment, Conscious

  "Talib Kweli On ReGENERATION Activism Documentary And Being ABBAACCSS1‘Conscious’ Rapper". Interview with Seamus McKiernan, www.huffingtonpost.com. June 1, 2012.

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• To me, hip hop will never be right until female rappers have a stronger voice in it.

  Queen Latifah

  Voice, Hip Hop, Stronger

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• I know rappers who are grandparents and we still haven't conquered politics, social development, philanthropy and these are areas, as we become our parents and grandparents, that we need to hold the torch of what makes the world run and what makes communities better.

  Rhymefest

  Running, Grandparent, Community

  Source: chicagoist.com

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• I'm a rapper but I don't f**k with that hip-hop s**t. You understand? I'm home, I take care of my family. I f**k with other kinds of n****s, I don't f**k with no hip-hop dudes, man. That rap s**t is fake... these rap dudes is fake.

  Sean Price

  Rap, Home, Men

  Source: insomniacmagazine.com

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• That ain't nothing to be proud of, man. I'm not going to say, like, I'm an angel. I've definitely did some things. I just... I don't know... it's kind of corny to do that sometimes, you know? I mention it a few times, but I don't go crazy with it. I ain't a coke rapper, na'mean? I wasn't no big drug dealer neither, B. You know what I mean? I made enough to get fly, keep a little stack in the crib... couple of stacks in the crib. But I wasn't crazy with it. So that s**t ain't... I always worked for somebody. I got some other n***a rich.

  Sean Price

  Couple, Crazy, Mean

  Source: insomniacmagazine.com

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• 90% of the people that rap are just rappers, they rap what they see, a lot of them exploit other peoples lives, I've been through it all, I don't glorify it cos when I was in jail, I wasn't like YES I'm in jail now I can say that in my rap.

  Cormega

  Rap, Jail, People

  Source: fatlacemagazine.com

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