Rapper Quotes - Page 33

• 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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• The difference between blues, jazz, rock n' roll and rap is that rap stayed poor. Even the white rappers are poor. It's scarier to look at poor people; it makes everyone uncomfortable. Their pain is something that people would like to see swept under the rug.

  Russell Simmons

  Pain, Rap, Rocks

  "More Questions with Russell Simmons". content.time.com. May 3, 2007.

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• Asking why rappers always talk about their stuff is like asking why Milton is forever listing the attributes of heavenly armies. Because boasting is a formal condition of the epic form. And those taught that they deserve nothing rightly enjoy it when they succeed in terms the culture understands.

  Zadie Smith

  Army, Epic, Asking Why

  "The House That Hova Built". www.nytimes.com. September 6, 2012.

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• John would have been the first white rapper. And also he would have cherished the Internet.

  Yoko Ono

  White, Firsts, Internet

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• We don't need no more rappers, we don't need no more basketball players, no more football players. We need more thinkers. We need more scientists. We need more managers. We need more mathematicians. We need more teachers. We need more people who care; you know what I'm saying? We need more women, mothers, fathers, we need more of that, we don't need any more entertainers

  Tupac Shakur

  Basketball, Football, Mother

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• I don't want to do one of those records where it's like a compilation of a bunch of all sorts of rappers on my beats. I don't find those to be focused albums. I'd like to sit and work a whole record with a certain person, to come up with a concept and see it through that way.

  Flying Lotus

  Want, Way, Albums

  "Flying Lotus Talks New LP, Lil Wayne". Interview with Tom Breihan, pitchfork.com. January 14, 2010.

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• All these rappers on stage and Martha Stewart has done the most jail time.

  Natasha Leggero

  Jail Time, Done, Stage

  "CNN Newsroom", www.cnn.com. April 1, 2015.

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• As a kid, I loved storytelling, and I liked the way rappers would paint pictures.

  Jensen Karp

  Kids, Way, Storytelling

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• The reason why rappers are living in - you know, driving in Mercedes-Benz's and living in neighborhoods is because they're selling their music, not just to the black community, but to the white community.

  Eric Bolling

  White, Community, Black

  Source: www.patheos.com

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• Even where the game is today, cats don't really focus on necessarily what it is that you're saying so when people say, "Oh, you can't rap," I play into the joke. That's why I'll challenge anybody; anybody rapping, let's go just because I know what the art form is and even when you see these battle rappers in here, they're so skillful. It's actually a skill.

  Nick Cannon

  Art, Rap, Cat

  "Nick Cannon Gives Us An Exclusive Look Into The Making Of The New ‘wild ‘n Out’ Mixtape". Interview with Miz Kane, thesource.com. August 2, 2016.

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• When I'm writing for rappers it's kinda like switching, "Okay, you're not PJ. Now you have to act like a rapper."

  PJ Harvey

  Writing, Pjs, Switching

  "Singer/Songwriter PJ Shares Her Soundtrack For The Come Up". Interview with Todd Davis, www.parlemag.com. September 9, 2016.

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• I hate when any rapper would just use "Rapper X" because "Rapper X" is hot at the time and put them on the record. That's not how I do my thing. I work with my friends and people I consider fam.

  Donnis

  Hate, People, Hot

  "Donnis Talks 'Fashionably Late,' Atlantic Debut & Texting With T.I". Interview with Jordan Martins, www.complex.com. June 24, 2010.

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• If you can make the hits, then you won't be an Internet rapper anymore. It's good for hip-hop.

  Donnis

  Hip Hop, Hips, Internet

  "Donnis Talks 'Fashionably Late,' Atlantic Debut & Texting With T.I". Interveiw with Jordan Martins, www.complex.com. June 24, 2010.

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• I think that whatever you do, if you're a singer, a rapper, an architect, dentist, treat that like when you're doing it, your whole career depends on that moment.

  Eric Benet

  Thinking, Careers, Singers

  "Eric Benet Interview: New Album, Staying Authentic, Passion for R&B, Potential Project with Tamia". Youknowigotsoul.com Interview, youknowigotsoul.com. October 5, 2016.

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• Take emceeing, one of the foundations of hip-hop culture. A guy grabs a mic, steps up on stage and becomes a spokesman; the voice of the people. If anything, that might be the strongest similarity between hip-hop and comic books, with super heroes, like many rappers, fighting to make a change.

  Ali Shaheed Muhammad

  Hero, Book, Fighting

  Source: www.highsnobiety.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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• 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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• When you're a rapper, just a rapper, you have to kind of settle for whatever comes your way - if a beat is hot, you wanna rap on it, period.

  J. Cole

  Rap, Hot, Way

  Source: djbooth.net

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• I don't have no fear of death. My only fear is coming back reincarnated.

  Tupac Shakur

  Thug, No Fear, Fear Of Death

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

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• The only thing that comes to a sleeping man is dreams.

  Tupac Shakur

  Dream, Sleep, Thug

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

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• I'm a reflection of the community.

  Tupac Shakur

  Reflection, Community

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

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• I feel close to Marvin Gaye, Vincent van Gogh, because nobody appreciated his work until he was dead. Now it's worth millions.

  Tupac Shakur

  Appreciated, Vans, Feels

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• We Know that World's best rapper is Eminem and He is White

  Wiz Khalifa

  White, World, Knows

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