Rapper Quotes - page 4

I've never been the straight rapper that is going to stand in a cipher and battle all day. I started off battle rapping, but to me, making songs became more important than freestyles... I've met many rappers who can freestyle but can't make a record. (Queen Latifah)
When it came time to be a professional rapper, I wouldn't sign anything without reading it. There was no way I was going to have people make decisions for me or wake up one day and find that I was broke because I never bothered to read a contract. View quote
Queen Latifah
I always envisioned myself being a rapper and being in the game and having success, but you never know what it feels like or how you're going to be when you're there. View quote
Wiz Khalifa
In the past it seemed like I was making fun of rap a little bit. But it was more me making fun of myself, since I'm not technically a rapper, whatever that means. View quote
Beck
I would not consider myself to be a quote unquote real New York rapper. I don't even like New York rappers. View quote
ASAP Rocky
The roots of rap are originally ghetto-ised or extremely working class. So when you're an artist who's making something which isn't how its mainstream appearance should be, there's always these strange questions of authenticity and what you have to do to be 'real' as a rapper. View quote
Zadie Smith
Can't a rapper insist, like other artists, on a fictional reality, in which he is somehow still on the corner, despite occupying the penthouse suite? View quote
Zadie Smith
But, by just being myself, I end up touching a lot more people who might never have paid much attention to a female rapper. View quote
Nicki Minaj
I'm a rapper... Gaga's a fantastic artist, you know, she paved her way. She's opened her own lane. But I think that I have my own lane. And we never cross. Ever. So, you know, I really don't get the comparison anymore. Our music doesn't sound the same. Our stage presence is not the same. I just can't see the similarities. View quote
Nicki Minaj
When I was a rapper, the groupies didn't have to try too hard with me. Just show up at the hotel. View quote
Mark Wahlberg
I always wanted to be someone in the entertainment industry. In my eighth grade slideshow, when everyone was like "show us what you want to be," everyone [said] doctor, lawyer, [but] mine literally said rapper. I wanted to be a musician, I wanted to be a superstar, I wanted to be on stage, I wanted to perform, I wanted to be in movies. But as you grow up, those dreams kind of fade away. (Lilly Singh)
Is Brooklyn in the house? Without a doubt, I'm the rapper with clout everybody yap about. View quote
The Notorious B.I.G.
I've been trying to nail it into everyone's heads that I feel like I am the most versatile rapper. View quote
Ludacris
I really love when people come up to me on the street and say, 'You're my favorite rapper.' View quote
Ludacris
Some people say I'm conscious, some say I'm a gangsta rapper - it's just me doing me. I'm stomping in my own lane. I'm doing what I do. View quote
Nas
Anybody can be a rapper, but not anybody can be a classical artist. View quote
Nas
I don't recall being excited about a new rapper, ever. View quote
DMX (rapper)
I put everyone in my school on to Nicki Minaj before she blew up. I was obsessed with her and I was like, 'If she's the best female rapper then I've got to be better than her. View quote
Angel Haze
I usually travel with a posse. I roll deep. I travel like a rapper, but without the artillery. We don't carry guns, we carry cookies. View quote
Gabriel Iglesias
With 'Hip-Hop Saved My Life,' I attempted to make 'Kick, Push,' but for rappers. To give a real basic play-by-play of the life of a rapper before he makes it - if he ever makes it, because you can get stuck in that and be trying to make it for the rest of your life. View quote
Lupe Fiasco
Drake, I'd like to collaborate with. He's a phenomenal lyricist. Probably the best rapper in the world at the moment. I love Kanye but there's something about Drake; he's more straight up, really clever and really poetic and metaphorical - I love that. He's just clever. (Ellie Goulding)
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. View quote
Talib Kweli
If I focus on being an activist and my job is to be a rapper, I'm not going to be as good of a rapper. I need to focus on hip-hop and focus on making the music, so that when the activists come to me and they need my voice to create a platform, then I've got enough people listening to me. Not because I'm conscious, but because I'm dope. View quote
Talib Kweli
Well let me tell you like this, the rap scene right now has taken its own course and its own direction because you have so many rap records of all different calibers coming out. And me, I favor everybody, I like everybody and the reason why is because I want everyone to Favor Flav. If I favor one certain rapper or one certain singer then only one certain singer/rappers are going to favor Flav. So me, I'm just a friendly ghost and not only that I'm a musician. I like all kinds of music. And everybody making records right now is definitely respected by Flav and for all you new comers just starting to make records: welcome aboard. View quote
Flavor Flav
A rapper is about being completely true to yourself. Being an actor is about changing who you are. View quote
Will Smith